The new Bucerius Kunst Forum opened in June with the exhibition Here We Are Today: A View of the World in Photography and Video Art. The show focuses on highly topical issues in our globalised society. Nearly 90 photographs and videos are on view that address the themes of identity, homeland, the past, crime and capital. Important contemporary artists including Andreas Gursky, Pieter Hugo, Shirin Neshat and Hito Steyerl are represented with exemplary works. The Bucerius Kunst Forum inaugurated its new premises on Alter Wall with the exhibition Here We Are Today: A View of the World in Photography and Video Art. On view are paradigmatic works exemplifying artists’ engagement with the central issues of our globalised society. This first show held in the Bucerius Kunst Forum’s new premises thus picks up on the forum’s own traditions – because the programme of exhibitions and events here has always been

The large scale mixed media artworks are the final two panels of a 3 piece (triptych) artwork titled ‘Jallianwala:Repression and Retribution’ created by contemporary British artists, The Singh Twins, in response to the Centenary this year of the Jallianwala Bagh or Amritsar massacre: an atrocity perpetrated on 13th April 1919 during British rule in India, under orders of Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer, in which hundreds of Indian civilians who had gathered in a park (known as Jallianwala) to protest the introduction of draconian racist laws, were left dead and dying after being fired upon, without warning by British troops. Whilst the central panel of the Twin’s triptych (launched earlier this year at Manchester Museum) focused on the massacre itself which took place in the city of Amritsar in the North-West province of Punjab, the two new works (representing the left and right side panels of the triptych) largely explore the historical context, aftermath and legacies of this event w

This week, well before the ALBERTINA Museum’s second location—“ALBERTINA modern” at Karlsplatz—opens in March of next year, the museum’s Director General Klaus Albrecht Schröder was able to announce the latest major addition to the museum’s holdings: the Jablonka Collection. The Jablonka Collection, with its more than 400 works, is one of the most prominent collections of American and German art from the 1980s. It includes works by Mike Kelley, Sherrie Levine, Michael Heizer, Eric Fischl, Philip Taaffe, Roni Horn, Francesco Clemente, Richard Deacon, Damien Hirst, Richard Avedon, Andreas Slominski, and other important figures with whom Rafael Jablonka spent years working, figures whose works he also exhibited and collected. A strong emphasis within this collection is on the oeuvre of Nobuyoshi Araki, who is represented by 240 works. Since the German art dealer, gallerist, and exhibition curator Ra

The only hint that something extraordinary lay inside the plain wooden drawer in an unassuming office behind Nairobi National Museum was a handwritten note stuck to the front: “Pull Carefully”. Inside, a monstrous jawbone with colossal fangs grinned from a bed of tattered foam — the only known remains of a prehistoric mega-carnivore, larger than a polar bear, that researchers only this year declared a new species. “This is one-of-a-kind,” said Kenyan paleontologist Job Kibii, holding up the 23-million-year-old bones of the newly-discovered giant, Simbakubwa kutokaafrika, whose unveiling made headlines around the world. But the remarkable fossils were not unearthed this year, or even this decade. They weren’t even found this century. For nearly 40 years, the specimens — proof of the existence of Africa’s largest-ever predator, a 1,500 kilogram (3,300-pound) meat eater that dwarfed later hunters like lions — lived in a nondescript drawer in downtown Nairobi. Museum staff knew the bone