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Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book

TBA21 launching new book & platforms to support artists during lockdown.

Leading philanthropist Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza’s foundation, TBA21 is launching an important series of initiatives on different platforms this autumn including the publication of a new book designed by the world’s leading book designer, Irma Boom, dedicated to the foundation’s work over the last two decades, and the launch of St age, a collaborative digital programme and exhibition space initiated and run by TBA21 to support artists during the Covid-19 crisis.

Politics & Nature: unnatural and natural states of the world at 56th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia

Arriving in Venice for the vernissage days whilst elections were in full swing, I was surprised to be confronted by a politically charged Biennale. Colonialism, Capitalism, Socialism, contemporary slavery and migration were some of the themes running through the 56th Edition of La Biennale di Venezia, which opened not long after a period of several weeks during which more than 1,800 migrants – many of them African – drowned whilst attempting to flee across the Mediterranean to Europe..

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