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Art Basel in Basel, 2017: Part 2

HG Masters

Jenny Dixon, who has been the director of the Noguchi Foundation since 2003, has announced that she will retire at the end of this year. Photo by Dan Stahl. Courtesy the Noguchi Mu

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Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon Announces Retirement

Rosa Rissler

Installation view of *SHIRANA SHAHBAZI*'s

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Shirana Shahbazi’s “First Things First”

The photographs defy fixed viewing experiences and chronological narratives—visitors are deliberately left to explore the exhibition any way they please. Clara Tang

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Generous State Funding Revives AGNSW Sydney Modern Project

Michael Young

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Maeve Brennan and Imran Perretta Announced as Winners of the 2018 Jerwood/FVU Awards

Jia Dong

Warm, sunny weather in Basel on the Messeplatz, where, after last year’s rain-soaked event, a new canopy has been constructed to shelter guests during the newly implemented securit

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Art Basel in Basel, 2017: Part 1

HG Masters

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Ding Yi’s “Appearance of Crosses”

Seven large square paintings of these seemingly infinite geometrical shapes, tessellating and overlaid in a palette of black, white, luminous green and warm orange, filled the gallery with optical tricks. Cleo Roberts

*ANJOLIE ELA MENON*, _Parvati with Ganesh_, 2016, oil on masonite board, 91.4 x 61 cm. Courtesy Aicon Gallery, New York.

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Anjolie Ela Menon’s “A Retrospective”

Anjolie Ela Menon in her first-ever retrospective exhibition in the United States. Mimi Wong

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Documenta 14, Kassel (Part 3)

What is Documenta 14 really about? HG Masters

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“Seeds of Time”

This isn’t really an art exhibition per se, but more an experimental, multidisciplinary think tank. Arthur Solway

John Ishak, chairman of the Kuala Lumpur Biennale; Mohamed Najib Ahmad Dawa, director general of the National Art Development Board in Malaysia; and Zanita Binti Anuar, director of

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Inaugural Kuala Lumpur Biennale to Launch in November

Sonia Yu

Although Documenta in Kassel has downplayed the title “Learning from Athens,” it features an appropriate work, *MARTA MINUJÍN*’s The _Parthenon of Books_ (2017), which faces the ne

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Documenta 14, Kassel (Part 2)

A second day of visiting the mega-festival in Germany. HG Masters

*YANG YONGLIANG*, _Infinite Landscape_, 2011, blu-ray video: 7 min 30 sec. Courtesy the artist and White Rabbit Collection, Sydney.

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“The Dark Matters”

A group show of 33 predominantly monochromatic works, all of which are drawn from Sydney-based Judith Neilson’s collection of 21st century contemporary Chinese art. Michael Young

ASTHA BUTAIL, Turning Towards Pure White, 2016–17, handloom cotton muslin, acrylic on archival paper, MDF, teak wood and book, 341 x 1,463 x 2 cm. Installation view at the booth of

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Astha Butail Selected as the Next BMW Art Journey Winner

Karen Cheung