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Global Commons and New Ecologies: The Inaugural Convening of the MIT-LUMA Lab, April 2-3

April 1, 2025
Event

Aldo Tambellini, Black Is, 1965. Film still.

Aldo Tambellini in Sprockets, Scratches, Splotches shorts program at BAM

March 27, 2025
Event

Kwan Queenie Li. O, Engraft You New, 2024. Two-channel moving stills. Co-commissioned by Videotage, Film London and G39 Cardiff for the British Council’s SPARK FESTIVAL 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.

Kwan Queenie Li – O, Engraft You New

March 25, 2025
Press

Antoni Muntadas. Detail of the intervention Lugar Público, 2025.

Antoni Muntadas: Muntadas Lugar Público

March 21, 2025
Exhibition

Lan Tuazon, Over Your Head & Under the Weather, 2024. Installation view: Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 14, 2024–January 5, 2025. Photo: Jeff McLane. Courtesy of the List Visual Arts Center.

Nida Sinnokrot in 2025 Max Wasserman Forum: Visions of Sustainability

March 20, 2025
Event

Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas: Keynote at Collaborations Afield Conference at Harvard

March 13, 2025
Event

Renée Green, Wavelinks, 2002, and Space Poem #1, 2007, installation view, ‘Contact’, 2022, moCa Cleveland, Ohio, FRONT International 2022. Courtesy: the artist, Free Agent Media, and Bortolami, New York; photograph: © FieldStudio

Charting Renée Green’s Unfolding Art Histories | Feature in Frieze

March 5, 2025
Press

Alia Farid, Material research, September 2024 Alia Farid: Talismans (Kupol LR 3303).

Alia Farid: Talismans (Kupol LR 3303)

February 27, 2025
Exhibition

Installation view, Joan Jonas, Empty Rooms, Gladstone, New York, 2025.
© Joan Jonas / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone.
Photography by David Regen.

Joan Jonas’ Empty Rooms at Gladstone Gallery

February 25, 2025
Exhibition

Lydia Yan’s poster project highlights the e-waste crisis in Guangzhou, China, urging reflection with the question: “What do we feed our children?”
Image: Adelaide Zollinger

Transversal Design for Social Impact

February 20, 2025
ResearchAcademics

Nolan Oswald Dennis, Black Liberation Zodiac (Kgositsile’s Folly), 2022-ongoing. Wallpaper, bowl, water, cowrie shell; Approximations (1), 2021 Video, conference stand. 11 min 31 secs. Courtesy of the Swiss Institute.

Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns at Swiss Institute

February 11, 2025
Exhibition

© Sung Hwan Kim © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Chiara Bellamoli

Sung Hwan Kim | Protected by roof and right-hand muscles

January 28, 2025
Exhibition

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