Afghanistan

See // 10,000 Pink Balloons for Kabul and NYC
Kat Herriman |
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Yazmany Arboleda’s Monday Morning project uses 10,000 balloons to raise awareness about the effects of war in Kabul.

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SEE // The Real/Unreal Afghanistan // Francis Alÿs
Jason-Louise Graham |
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Eleven years later, are the children in Alÿs’s film still alive?

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How Alighiero Boetti Became His Own Art Project (While Opening a Hotel in Afghanistan and Gaming the Postal Service)
Georgina Wells |
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MoMA’s retrospective Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan is the largest exhibit of the artist’s work outside of Italy to date. An early member of the anti-establishment art movement Arte Povera, Boetti used preexisting objects and symbols to create playful conceptual art.

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Postwar in Kassel and Kabul: dOCUMENTA (13)
Georgina Wells, Spencer Nelson |
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Curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev explores the idea of the postwar in an exhibition of two hundred artists spanning four thousand years of work.

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