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Hector René Membreño-Canales, Mapa de Rutas Comerciales (Commercial Trade Route Maps), 2025, Photomontage, 37 × 35 in. Image courtesy the artist. © Hector René Membreño-Canales

Hector René Membreño-Canales in Looking for America

May 15, 2026
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Nolan Oswald Dennis. Photo Courtesy of Goodman Gallery.

Nolan Oswald Dennis Emerges as a Defining Voice of the Global Biennial Circuit

May 5, 2026
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Haozhen Feng & Zairan Yu, Periphery Pivoting, Live photo at Shanghai Tank Art Center, October 7, 2025. Image courtesy of the artist

Periphery Pivoting: A multimedia performance by Haozhen Feng & Zairan Yu

March 17, 2026
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Renée Green’s video “Partially Buried Continued” (1997), created for the Gwangju Biennial, brought Cha’s work into dialogue with the Earthworks artist Robert Smithson, as well as with her own father’s slide photographs of Korea. Credit: Renée Green, via Bortolami Gallery, New York

Renée Green on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

March 6, 2026
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Nida Sinnokrot, Installation view: Sharjah Biennial 16, Old Jubail Vegetable Market, Sharjah, 2025. Image courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo: Sahar Qawasmi.

Nida Sinnokrot Highlighted Among Standout Artists at Art Basel Qatar

February 12, 2026
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Jessica Sarah Rinland, Collective Monologue, 2025. Film still. Courtesy of the artist.

Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue Receives UK Premiere

February 9, 2026
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Judith Barry. Film stills from Casual Shopper and Kaleidoscope. Courtesy of the artist.

Judith Barry | Recent News

February 2, 2026
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Azra Aksamija and the Future Heritage Lab, Eulensicht, 2026. Photo: © Stefanie vom Stein, City of Wuppertal.

ACT’s Azra Akšamija Unveils Major Public Art Project, “Eulensicht” (Owl’s Wisdom)

January 22, 2026
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the sun has its own drum, 2025. Exhibition view. Photo credit: Rythum Vinoben.

the sun has its own drum: Four Artists Listening Across Worlds

November 26, 2025
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Julia Scher, Security by Julia IX (SBJ IX), 1991. Exhibition view, Le Consortium, Dijon, 1991. Courtesy Julia Scher and Esther Schipper, Berlin. Photo © Julia Scher.

Surveillance, Seduction, and Subversion: The Art of Julia Scher

August 22, 2025
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Meeting of the Lithuanian delegation with MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Vice Provost Duane Boning. March 2024. Photo by Vera Pronova.

MISTI Lithuania: Artistic Intelligence, Energy Humanities, and a Transatlantic Vision

July 10, 2025
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ACT Faculty and Staff Featured in MIT News’s Summer 2025 reading from MIT

June 27, 2025
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