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oO becomes Oo and oo: 2 Countries in an Uneven Structure at the Venice Biennale 8 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
This past June, Curator Gary Carrion-Murayari visited the 55th Venice Biennale and was particularly struck by the joint Cypriot and Lithuanian Pavilion, united for the first time this year at a sports...
On Building Virtual Museums 19 Jul 2013 | 10:46 pm
In May, New Museum Deputy Director Karen Wong attended the American Alliance of Museums Annual Meeting in Baltimore. The five-day extravaganza of a conference brought together five thousand museum pro...
Antagonism and Failure 28 Jun 2013 | 12:54 am
In the following text, artist and writer Victor Albarracín recounts the four-year lifespan of El Bodegón, an art space founded in Bogotá in 2005 by a group of art students and professors. The essay de...
The Failure of a Project: Gezi Park and more 21 Jun 2013 | 12:39 am
Last October, when the New Museum organized the first international IDEAS CITY Conference in Istanbul, the city’s immense beauty, cultural and historical significance, as well as its hyper-ambitious u...
Writing the Canon: Notes on Art Education in Egypt 20 May 2013 | 11:59 pm
Six Degrees encompasses critical essays, in-depth research, and diverse opinions about the arts and its contexts from practitioners around the world, as well as dispatches by New Museum staff. In this...
Museum as Hub: Reflections on the 2013 Conference by Natasha Marie Llorens 7 May 2013 | 08:26 pm
On April 12–13, 2013, the Museum as Hub hosted a conference to mark the sixth anniversary of the Hub initiative. The conference aimed, in part, to consider strategies for the next phase of the project...
On Instituting A New Space For Thought 14 Feb 2013 | 11:28 pm
In the late spring of 2012, curators Sarah Rifky and Jens Maier-Rothe had both planned to be in Beirut. A fortunate turn of events kept them in Cairo a little longer than planned and founding Beirut, ...
Six Degrees: A Roundup of Archive Initiatives 25 Jan 2013 | 09:07 pm
It’s January—the time of year when contemporary art periodicals publish their “Best of the Year” selections, summarizing what has happened or what is to come. These annual reflections often present an...
What's Art Got To Do With It? 10 Jan 2013 | 08:36 pm
Brazilianification is a term that was coined to describe the process in which the middle class disappears and the gulf between the upper and lower classes widens. On my recent trip to São Paulo , I fo...
Museum as Hub: ENDNOTES: Was it a Question of Power? 3 Jan 2013 | 09:29 pm
O my body, make of me always a man who questions! —Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks There is a passage in Bessie Head’s 1974 autobiographical novel, A Question of Power, in which a teacher hides...
