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Asymmetry Art Foundation is delighted to announce its open call for the Asymmetry PhD Scholarship in the “Advanced Practices” programme at the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London.

A new artist book, The Twofold Commitment by Trinh T. Minh-ha, takes as its point of departure Trinh’s lyrical film Forgetting Vietnam (2015). Commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, the film examines both public and private memory and the official and unofficial histories that emerge in the wake of traumatic events.

The Twofold Commitment revisits Trinh T. Minh-ha’s time-dipping Forgetting Vietnam (2015), a documentary feature about the myth

For THE EDUCATIONAL WEB the Kunstverein in Hamburg hosts eight schools, educational organisations, and independent study programmes which define themselves as alternatives to the traditional “art academy.”

The inaugural e-flux reader collects essays from the first eight issues of the journal, which take up the task of revitalizing the critical vocabulary of contemporary art by engaging new territories.

1994-4, Oil on Paper | Photo from the book To say or think that Ayessha Quraishi is simply an artist who creates abstract art is a disservice to her. From her early drawings and doodles that began in the mid-1980s, to muted oils on paper last year, Quraishi has shown us much that we may possibly expect from an inventive, contemporary artist. Her intelligent body of abstract art is chemical, to say the least, for it continues to transmute during an ongoing career that spans over three decades. R...