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Looking for a Missing Employee | Rabih Mroué [NYTimes]

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Claudia La Rocco for the Times: So often, political art makes us feel that the cure is as bad as the disease. Didactic, self-righteous and smug, full of easy slogans, this sort of art leaves people just as boxed in as the systems it supposedly critiques.

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Nerve Centre for Egypt's Young Art Scene [Qantara]

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The Townhouse in the centre of Cairo, opened by the Canadian William Wells in 1998, has grown into an established magnet for artists, but also for children, families and refugees. Amira El Ahl has the details.

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Art Basel Miami for the Gay and Fearless [BUTT]

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Art Basel Miami. For the gay and fearless, it can only mean one thing: regret. It’s not that I’m ashamed of the things I’ve done—even though I am—it’s more that I can only remember a fraction of the things I’m ashamed of.

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Big Money Sales at Abu Dhabi Art [Lindsay Pollock]

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At the new Abu Dhabi Art,  the big ticket deals were consummated at the end of the week.

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Tate buys Marwan Rechmaoui at Frieze London [Dia Diwan]

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Dia Diwan Frieze gossip: The Tate acquired a work by Marwan Rechmaoui from Sfeir-Semler gallery with their Outset Fund...I am sure we will be hearing of similar acquisitions programs coming up with the art fair in Abu Dhabi and hopefully in Dubai next year.

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Newsflash

Anna Somers Cocks talks to Manal Ataya, Director of the Sharjah Museums Department about the rise in interest in art in the Middle East as well as the restrictions on the type of art which can be displayed in public in the region.