Afua Hirsch on Africa Rising, Liverpool Biennial, Basquiat in Basel with Jeffrey Deitch
The Week in Art
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The Problem With Contemporary Art
I'd like more of a sense of actually engaging with the outside the inside maybe some works that really make us remember that the stones under our feet are filthy stones you know built from you know desperate horrible commerce. I think my pieces did work well as I said the tobacco warehouses evocative sites or the sugar exchange and other thing where you have these kind of blighted buildings these buildings evoke so much. Where things popped up in the public spaces that also helped a bit I'm thinking particularly of peace by Rantibam in the Our Lady in St Nicholas Church.
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