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The environmentally minded TBA21-Academy has commissioned research-intensive artworks related to the warming of the world’s oceans and issues that may inevitably end result. More and more institutions are following similar traces to devise scientific endeavors in increasingly ambitious ways. After four years sequestered in China, dissident artist Ai Weiwei received his passport again in July.

In London, National Gallery workers went on an indefinite strike in August to protest privatization plans (which strikers within the museum’s Trafalgar Square deem unnecessary) that may affect some four hundred worker roles. In October, the strikers resumed work and reached an agreement that, while nonetheless allowing the privatization to proceed, will ensure that the National Gallery’s labor requirements usually are not diminished by the transfer. Tania Bruguera, Opening Session of the foundational means of the Hannah Arendt International Institute of Artivism, 2015. Photo by Pablo León de la Barra, courtesy of Studio Bruguera and Yo Tambien Exijo Platform. It takes some severe chutzpah to defraud a Russian oligarch, but that’s precisely what Dmitry Rybolovlev claims Tania Rappo and Yves Bouvier did once they inflated the asking price of several artworks they offered him, pocketing the distinction. In the authorized battle between Rybolovlev and Bouvier, …