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Elise Morton

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Shezad Dawood’s “Skin of Dreams” Looks Forward as Well as Back

In Abu Dhabi, a city consciously imagining itself into a new cultural future, it feels like exactly the right show in exactly the right place.

19.08.2026 8

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Elise Morton

On a Remote Corner of Chios, the Art World Finds Room Think

The art world has developed its own version of the privacy economy, a circuit of events where the serious thinking happens away from the main stages...

04.08.2026 10

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Elise Morton

“Climate Clock” in Oulu Reckons With a Warming World

Curator Alice Sharp describes the project as an attempt to step outside the ordinary tyranny of clock time and into something else: a space "between...

17.06.2026 10

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Elise Morton

Manuel Mathieu’s Venice Biennale Debut Asks How We Carry the Past

The Haitian-Canadian artist is one of the few in this year's Biennale showing in both the Arsenale and the Giardini—a feat that speaks to the...

01.06.2026 10

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Elise Morton

At Saudi Arabia’s Diriyah Biennale, Art Moves in Procession

In a region where cultural infrastructure is rapidly expanding, this biennial is a discursive platform that actively engages the public rather than...

02.02.2026 30

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Elise Morton