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• Shake up in Moscow’s contemporary art scene

  04-06-2016 23:00
  
  Mikhail Mindlin, the former director of Moscow’s National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), has been questioned by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) in connection with a corruption investigation that has already landed a deputy culture minister in prison, the official Tass news agency reported. Although Mindlin was released after a few hours, the incident has shaken Moscow’s contemporary arts scene.Immediately after he was removed from the NCAA, Mindlin was appointed
  
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• Underground art: Stockholm's colourful metro stations – in pictures

  04-06-2016 18:00
  
  Beneath the Swedish capital lies an intricate web of underground train lines. More than 90 of the 100 stations in the 110km tunnel system, sometimes referred to as “the world’s longest art gallery”, have been decorated with paintings, installations, mosaics and sculptures by 150 artists since the 1950s. After spending a couple of weeks exploring arctic Norway and Sweden, London-based travel photographer Conor MacNeill headed underground to capture images of the metro stations.
  
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• Untitled( david had high blood pressure, psoriasis, gum disease, and anal fissures that developed into severe mental illness)

  04-06-2016 06:26 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  the room had a computer, a phone, and a file cabinet. a thin gravid man in his thirties david used it as a temporary office. david had a wife as thin and as tall as himself. he was five eight. the wife had blond hair and a flat mouth. they wanted to have a future. they had a past. they studied history to know they had a chance at an average life. the wife collated yellow, blue, and pink papers that had numbers and letters for products.h, a,b,y, and g were the products shipped in small crates to
  
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