Roxana azimi biography definition
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“Brussels has become an international city of contemporary art”
Roxana Azimi_The Young section features lots of New York based galleries. The private Flemish collections exhibited in “Passions secrètes” at the Tripostal in Lille last fall placed as well a strong emphasis on American contemporary art. How would you explain this focus from the Belgians?
Katerina Gregos_American contemporary art has always had a dominant position in the art market, especially since the 1980s. From Abstract expressionism, to minimal and conceptual art, American artists have played a very important role in recent art history. As a great economic power, it is not a coincidence that art from America has consolidated itself on the global market. One need only think of the hundreds of galleries in New York alone… As far as the American focus in many Belgian collections, it is true that many collectors have a preference for American contemporary art, and I imagine tha
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1Since the early 2000s, the critical literature devoted to the exhibition has developed considerably, and several books have ushered in a wholesome labour of historicization, the best known example probably being the portrait gallery produced bygd Hans Ulrich Obrist, A Brief History of Curating (2008), while, in 2010, his colleague Jens Hoffmann launched The Exhibitionist, a theoretical review devoted to the art of the exhibition, focusing on a defence of curating as a fully-fledged authorial activity. Many other publications posthumously made the legendary Harald Szeemann the tutelary figure of that new generation of exhibition organizers, facing social phenomena in a more direct way, readily getting away from the museum context and art historical discourse, and less concerned with art history’s established hierarchies, and even suspicious of its westernized and patriarchal ways of thinking. Within the university, and at art schools, a specialized teaching of the hist
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France's first Museum of Feminism to open in 2027
The planerat arbete , to be housed at the library of the University of Angers, will display materials telling the story of the history of feminist struggles and achievements.
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While France has several thousand museums, none so far have been dedicated to the history of feminist struggles and conquests. This gap – identified in a Le Monde op-ed by magistrate Magali Lafourcade in May 2022 – should be filled however in 2027, by the Museum of Feminism expected to open its doors at the university library in Angers, western France. "All the planets are in alignment," said historian Christine Bard, who co-chairs Afémuse, the precursor organization for the new establishment.
"This fryst vatten a meeting of history and opportunity," said Nathalie Clot, director of libraries and archives at the University of Angers. For 20 years, they have been accumulating France's largest collection of documents relating to feminism.