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Artforum in partnership with Sotheby’s will host “Normal Exceptions,” an online conversation that focuses on an exhibition of the same title currently up at the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. Today’s newsletter features the work and words of some of the event’s esteemed panelists as they have appeared in the magazine.
Celebrating the art and artists for whom Mexico is home in one sense or another, tomorrow’s conversation welcomes Eugenio López Alonso, president of Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo; Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy, director of Kunstinstituut Melly; Kit Hammonds, chief curator of the Museo Jumex; and artists Mario García Torres and Melanie Smith. On this occasion, we invite you to look back at the ways in which these luminaries have enriched the pages of
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Refurbished modernist building to become new artistic hub: Forma HQ to launch in Southwark, London this summer
FormaHQ. Image courtesy Forma Arts & Media. Photograph by Max Creasy.
LONDON
.- Commissioned by Southwark Council in collaboration with curator Aldo Rinaldi, the newly refurbished modernist building was designed by Sanchez Benton Architects with international artist Gabriel Kuri. The light-filled structure, situated on Great Dover Street by Bricklayers roundabout in Southwark, includes Formas new offices, five affordable artist studios, a residency space for visiting international artists, an event space and room for a café and bookshop. The rooftop was converted into a new public garden further designed with celebrated horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett and will be fitted with furniture designed by Kuri.
Exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel presents a loose response to the iconic INFORMATION show at MoMA
Installation view, INFORMATION (Today), Kunsthalle Basel, 2021, view on Gabriel Kuri, Balance of the Invisible and the Foreseeable, 2014 (front) and Nora Turato, your bed is a magical place where you remember all the things you forgot during the day / your vanity is powerful enough to defeat anything, 2021 (back). Photo: Philipp Hänger / Kunsthalle Basel.
BASEL
.- Encrypted networks, digital currencies, artificial intelligence, data harvesting, algorithmic biases, sentient machinesall are products of twenty-first-century data-based capitalism. The proliferation of information, and datas nebulous modes of circulating and being processed, fundamentally shape daily life now. INFORMATION (Today) is a group show featuring contemporary artists seeking to unravel this phenomenon.