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INTERVIEW Daniela Gusman, founder of Rise in the City: an international art event staged in New York to inspire change
DESIGN When art and design walk hand in hand - we take a look at the collaboration between Eames and Saul Steinberg
REVIEW S The eclectic exhibition of Jean-Michel Basquiat at The Barbican Centre in London and Off-Biennále Budapest
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V–(B)–18 Eighteen: that’s how many years it is since Malta was last represented at the largest art fair in the world: nine editions in Biennale years. What most articles fail to mention, however, is that despite the long hiatus Malta has only ever participated on this platform on two previous occasions – once in the 1960s and then the last time was in1999.
Painting by Marwan Kassab Bachi at The Venice Biennale 57th edition.
It’s true that, over the past few years, Malta hasn’t been completely absent from the scene, mainly through the participation in the Architecture Biennale, thanks to Architecture Project’s presence for two years running and preceding that, in 2013, Raphael Vella – half of the duo curating this year’s Homo Melitensis project – also participated in one of the collateral events in the Art Biennale. Pg. 29 >>
Rise in the City OPINION: What it takes to be an artist EVENTS: International & Maltese exhibition & art fair ART NEWS: Ghana’s art scene is going places ART MARKET: Private highlights & reviews FILM: The latest arty gems in the cinema collection of Piero Guccione & Victor Pasmore ARCHITECTURE: The history of museums – buildings worthy of housing art BOOKS: Three permanent bed-side companions
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What do 76 artists from around the world, who are conscientious about the world, have in common? They are all participating in the first Rise in The City event – an international art event to inspire change! Pg. 35 >>