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Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung to Lead Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, one of the most closely watched curators working in Germany today, will soon lead one of the country’s most important contemporary art museums. The Berlin-based curator will be the next director of the Haus der ...
Sculptor Simone Leigh is Representing the United States at 2022 Venice Biennale
Simone Leigh will represent the US at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, making her the first Black woman to secure the prestigious commission. Leigh was selected by theU.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Her ...
A London Museum Wants to Relocate a Statue of Its Slave-Trader Founder
London’s Geffrye Museum has changed its name to the Museum of Home, but the institution’s statue of former namesake Robert Geffrye, an English merchant and slave trader, is still a source of controversy—and the government is preventing the ...