The pandemic and the “art world”: a necessary striptease

What this pandemic is exposing about the “art world” in Portugal is not surprising. However, seeing it all out in the daylight and under such a condensed time-frame is somewhat mind-blowing. I’ll try not to go into specific problems being discussed here, for I feel most of the episodes that have led to this text…

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┐ The blind man and his visual clarity └

caption (above): © João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva Terence Koh, God, 2007. View of the performance at de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich. Courtesy Peres Projects, Berlin. Installation view of Terence Koh (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, January 19–May 27, 2007). Photograph by Sheldan C. Collins © Hiroshi Sugimoto, Self-portrait, 2003 © Hiroshi…

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