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• Private museum pops up to fill a gap in Brussels

  19-03-2016 22:00
  
  In Brussels, a city with no public museum of contemporary art, an unorthodox private institution is due to open its doors on 24 March. The founding directors of the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (Mima) are a pair of Belgian dealers, Alice van den Abeele and Raphaël Cruyt. Since 2005, they have represented a roster of international street artists at the Alice Gallery in Brussels.
  While many of the same names appear in Mima’s collection of culture created after 2000, the museum i
  
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• Liberate Tate's six-year campaign to end BP's art gallery sponsorship – in pictures

  19-03-2016 07:00
  
  Last week BP announced it was ending its Tate sponsorship after 26 years, citing a ‘challenging business environment’. We look back at protests staged by the art collective, from a mass exorcism to a live tattoo event Continue reading...
  
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• Sydney Biennale review – contemporary art meets sci-fi in wide-reaching show

  19-03-2016 02:03
  
  Dystopic and utopian; beautiful and ugly – the 20th iteration of the biennale offers an intriguing, if uneven, reflection of the here and nowOne of the most fascinating trends in contemporary art over the past decade has been its increasing interest in science fiction.Either as a pop cultural reference point or the conceptual link between the speculative practices of contemporary art and science fiction, this trend has seen dozens, if not hundreds, of international and Australian artists c
  
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