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Joan Jonas, The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things (2004),
Installation view at Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York, 2021.
© Joan Jonas/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Courtesy of the artist and Dia Art Foundation, New York.
Photography by Bill Jacobson Studio, New York
Judith Barry in Conversation with Joan Jonas
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, Johan Grimonprez. Andrée Blouin ©Terence Spencer:Popperfoto
Johan Grimonprez | Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Project developed and led by the MIT Future Heritage Lab (Azra Akšamija, Merve Akdoğan, Christopher Hassan Allen, Kailin Jones, Lillian P.H. Kollogy, Penelope Phylactopoulos) in collaboration with MIT students and visitors of the MIT Museum.
Azra Aksamija | Telltales of Tide and Terra
Jamdani scroll. Image: Cheyenne Olivier.
Abhijit Banerjee | Jamdaani Weaving
After Dark + Artfinity
Kevin McLellan, States mockup, 2025.
Kevin McLellan | States
Gearóid Dolan, Protest: Queer Liberation March 2021 NYC, street intervention performance funded by The New York City Artist Corps featuring performers with protest posters, accompanied by members of the public, marching in front of large video projections depicting the 2020 Queer Liberation March. The group are lead by a person (people take turns) with a loudhailer, chanting protest chants which are repeated by the group.
Gearóid Dolan | From Panoctagon to Festival Henge
Bodegón Tropical, 2025
Hector Rene Membreno-Canales | Golden Cargo: Conquest of the Tropics
Vinzenz Aubry, Public Eyes. Installation view, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.
Vinzenz Aubry | Public Eyes

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