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Trust, After the Photograph

At the Moody Center for the Arts, Imaging After Photography argues that the key question is no longer whether images are real, but how they are produced – and why we might still believe them

Simon Bainbridge

Making Room for Milton Avery

Sidelined by his peers, Milton Avery is being recast as a model of modernism – but how is the market responding?

Matthew Holman

Opinion

A wide shot shows the white, pillared facade of the Central Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with the words "la Biennale" displayed above the entrance as people walk through the sunny courtyard.

Private Views: Lost in Translation

In her second dispatch, Gabriella Angeleti asks whether curatorial spectacle has been replaced by hollow, grandiose language

Gabriella Angeleti
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The Ghost of Franco

Fifty years after the dictator’s death, Spain’s artists and museums are confronting a legacy that refuses to stay in the past

Alexandra F. Coego
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A dense row of approximately forty sculptural crutches, cast in fleshy pinks, muddy browns, and charred blacks with visceral, lumpy textures, hangs against a plain white gallery wall in a rhythmic, unsettling installation.

Do Only Women Get to Suffer in Public?

Across contemporary art, depictions of cancer are strikingly gendered: female and queer artists are praised for public candour, while male illness is more often muted or mythologised. Why, in an age of self-disclosure, does male suffering still struggle to be seen?

Ella Lewis-Williams

After Nuremberg

Eighty years on, exhibitions, markets and museums continue to reshape how art handles Nazi crimes and Holocaust memory, raising uneasy questions about who gets to represent trauma – and to what end?

Hili Perlson

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Places

Palermo's Palazzo Forcella De Sata, the future home of Hauser and Wirth, a grand palazzo foregrounded by trees.

Can Palermo's Art Market Fulfil its Potential?

Palermo experienced a surge in tourism in the 2010s on the back of the Sicilian capital’s rehabilitation as a cultural capital. Now, as the city is once again reshaped by outside forces, can its nascent art market establish a state of self-dependence?

Izabela Anna Rzeczkowska-Moren

Hong Kong, Beyond the Fair

Angelle Siyang-Li outlines a route through Hong Kong away from Art Basel, from the best local restaurants to the galleries, neighbourhoods and escapes that shape the city's cultural life

Tom Seymour

Gibellina and the Limits of Art-Led Regeneration

Rebuilt by artists after the 1968 earthquake, Sicily's Gibellina is once again betting its future on culture. A new state-backed art capital programme asks whether funding and programming can succeed where politics failed.

Stephanie Gavan

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