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In the World But Don't Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don't Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseu...

In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009) El Anatsui, In the World But Don’t Know the World, 2009 @ El Anatsui. Photo Peter Tijhuis Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have jointly acquired a major sculpture by the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui. The work, entitled In the World But Don’t Know the World (2009), comes from the Sigg collection founded by Uli Sigg, a former Swiss ambassador to China. For the Stedelijk Museum, the purchase was funded by the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Foundation), the Mondriaan Fund, and the BankGiro Loterij; on the Kunstmuseum Bern side,...

LAVINA LIM. Photo by Winnie Yeung, Visual Voices. Courtesy the artists and M+, Hong Kong. On December 10, Hong Kong’s museum of contemporary art and visual culture M+ announced that it has received a major donation of 90 artworks from Hong Kong-based artist and architect William Lim and his wife, interior designer Lavina Lim. The couple’s artworks, which they call the Living Collection, is recognized as a key private holding that documents the emergence of Hong Kong’s art scene since the 2000s. The Lims’ bequest includes sculptures and paintings by 53 Hong Kong and international arti...