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With a selection of works spanning from 1985 to 1991, Arcadia Missa hosted the opening of the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Hungarian artist and performer Zsuzsi Ujj often worked alone in her condominium, surrounded by towering lighting setups and body-like tripods. Her short, 7-year photography stint was enclosed in the four walls

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In her column for Elephant, Kitty Lees looks at a different archival piece of jewellery every month. For May: Man Ray! Man Ray is remembered for making the familiar feel strange. He took a domestic iron and studded it a row of fourteen tacks, filled an olive jar with silver ball bearings and wrapped a

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Samaira Wilson sits down with Ebony L. Haynes to discuss the impossibility of work-life balance, how she crafts love letters to the artists she works with through her curatorial practice, and the advice she offers aspiring curators. From Shoot the Lobster to Martos Gallery to David Zwirner, Ebony L. Haynes has harnessed a passion for

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At Rizzoli Bookstore, Chris Wiley and Robert Swope discussed ÓRALE: Love and Death in Mexico City, the debut monograph by the late photographer Michel Hurst, with Swope, Hurst’s husband and longtime collaborator, joining Wiley in a conversation about Hurst’s life and work. The book, co-edited with Nan Goldin, draws on Hurst’s Mexico City archive and the

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Samaira Wilson moderated a discussion between Salome Asega and Ajay Kurian, two voices at the forefront of shaping creative infrastructure today, for Elephant. Salome Asega is a new media artist who has recently been appointed Deputy Director of Strategy and Innovation at the New Museum, while continuing as Director of NEW INC. As an artist

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