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What Time Is It? (GLB), 2022. Galerie der HFBK, Hamburg. Installation view. Image: Tim Albrecht

Renée Green Awarded the Finkenwerder Art Prize 2022

June 15, 2022
AwardsPublicationExhibition

Renée Green. Space Poem #1, 2007. Installation view, ICA Boston, 2021-2022. Image: Liza Voll

Circulating Circuits

February 17, 2022
ResearchPublicationExhibition

Nida Sinnokrot, Jonah’s Whale, 2014.
Steel, gypsum, Styrofoam, carpet, vinyl, conduit, aluminum, foam, fabric, 1200 × 480 × 240 cm. Photo: Chris Franken.

Office Hours: Nida Sinnokrot for Art & Education

November 23, 2021
ResearchPublication

Majid Al-Kanaan undertook a project to combat the visual and existential monotony of life at the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan. Using clay and stones from camp terrain, he built a colonnade of decorative arches in front of his shed. Image courtesy of Azra Akšamija

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

November 2, 2021
Publication

Reina Suyeon Mun

Reina Suyeon Mun Published in SEISMA Magazine

November 1, 2021
Publication

Cover of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, edited by Howie Chen, published by Primary Information, 2021. Image courtesy of Primary Information. [A large black G over a green background. On the left, “Asian American Arts Network” appears in white vertical text over a black background.]

Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network (1990–2001)

October 21, 2021
PublicationEvent

Ryan Aasen, Espejo Negro/Black Mirror, 2021. Book spread.

Ryan Aasen’s (SMACT ‘20) Espejo Negro / Black Mirror

October 7, 2021
PublicationExhibition

Jesal Kapadia, books for “What I am Reading Now,” 2021.

Jesal Kapadia | What I am Reading Now…

August 23, 2021
PublicationPress

Nida Sinnokrot, Ka (Oslo), 2017. Photo by Ziad Trad. Courtesy the artist.

Artforums’ Under The Cover: Nida Sinnokrot

August 18, 2021
PublicationPress

Image: MIT News, with images from iStockphoto

ACT Featured in MIT News’ Summer 2021 Reading List

July 14, 2021
Publication

Azra Akšamija, View 2: Palimpsest. Walking through the installation, the viewer is surrounded by an array of vertical and horizontal text strips, inviting cross-reading of selected names and quotes.

Azra Aksamija | To Build, or Not to Build … A Monument: Why I Withdrew my Winning Proposal to Cambridge Suffrage

July 12, 2021
PublicationPress

Renée Green’s Camino Road Reprint by Primary Information

May 11, 2021
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