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On Saturday, July 24, at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Boston-based RR Auction held a robst sale of memorabilia relating to notorious mobsters and outlaws like Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger.                                                                                           

"The power and energy of water have long been an alluring subject for artists. The museum’s collection is featured in this conceptual collage set to the introductory chapter of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick." Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art

Discussion on old master drawings. 

Discussion on old master drawings.  Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art

"From his London studio, artist Ori Gersht describes his practices in analogue and digital photography, filmmaking, and editing, and the environment in which he produces work. He highlights some of his still life works, including "Pomegranate" and "Big Bang," which illuminate the use of particular exposure lengths and pictorial qualities, and which focus on depictions of violence. Gersht also discusses his work in terms of truth, materiality, and abstraction, describing his studio as a personal oasis." Credit: Guggenheim Museum

"Artist Nadia Kaabi-Linke talks about her work in relation to themes of layering, history, migration, and the state of being in between cultures. While in Venice for the city’s 2010 Biennale, migrant street vendors fleeing from police caught Kaabi-Linke’s attention and sparked the creation of "Flying Carpets." The artist relates this work to "Meinstein," a public art project also inspired by immigrant communities." Credit: Guggenheim Museum

"June Yap, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, South and Southeast Asia, introduces the exhibition "No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia," and participating artists Sheela Gowda, Norberto Roldan, and Navin Rawanchaikul discuss their practices and featured works. Gowda talks about her photographs of the routes taken by bodies to a cemetery in Kashmir in "Loss," Roldan reveals the historical impetus for his painting "F-16," and Rawanchaikul explains his interest in personal and familial identity in 'Places of Rebirth.'" Credit: Guggenheim Museum

"Artist Marta Minujín describes how seeing the Obelisk of Buenos Aires on her return to Argentina from New York many years ago prompted a series of large-scale works that demystify popular monuments or cultural myths. Minujín traces the evolution of these works from horizontal metal structures to food that people can take and eat. For New York, she envisioned a Statue of Liberty made from McDonald’s hamburgers—an idea that she believes can still be realized with a different type of food." Credit: Guggenheim Museum 

"Artist Zineb Sedira talks about the development of the videographic aspect of her practice, from documentary-style works dealing with her parents and the Algerian War of Independence, such as "Mother, Father and I," through videos based on her interests in language and oral history, such as "Mother Tongue," and more “filmic,” poetic works featuring maritime imagery, such as "Middle Sea." Sedira describes newer works like "Gardiennes d’images" as fusions of some of her previous approaches."  

"Through photography and sculpture, Berlin-based artist Bettina Pousttchi explores the history and memory of architecture. In her series Double Monument for Flavin and Tatlin (2010–2016), Pousttchi incorporates constraining materials like rails, street barricades, and metal crowd barriers into sculptural forms with spiraling vertical towers and neon light tubes. These “double monuments” reference the work of Russian constructivist sculptor-architect Vladimir Tatlin from the 1920s and American minimalist artist Dan Flavin from the 1960s, created in homage to Tatlin.