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Nov 12, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya
With every odd stacked against it, Venice rises to the surface as Italy’s art capitalLATE IN THE LANGUID COVID-HANGOVER winter of 2022, I had just left my university post in Shanghai and was launching myself back into freelancing waters when I received an unusual invitation via email from an artist I had never met before. Her name was Noa Pane, and she was a sculptor who had also attended my alma mater, the Royal College of Art in London.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Gordon Hughes |Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya
NOTES1. Hal Foster and Benjamin Buchloh, Exit Interview (New York: No Place Press, 2024), 5 and 138. 2. Ibid., 135. 3. Clement Greenberg, “Modernist Painting,” in The Collected Essays and Criticism, vol. 4, Modernism with a Vengeance, 1957–1969 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 85. 4. Foster and Buchloh, Exit Interview, 138 and 139. 5. Ibid., 84. 6. Ibid., 99. 7.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya |Gordon Hughes
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Percy Zvomuya |Lillian Davies |Tracey Emin |Garrett Bradley
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
artforum.com | Natasha Degen |Travis Jeppesen |Pablo Larios |Percy Zvomuya
On the rise of the artist agentTHAT ART WAS CREATED for its own sake was our inherited ideal. For the better part of two centuries, artists and art institutions upheld this vision of art’s autonomy, elevated above quotidian life and unadulterated by base commercial concerns. Things were of course never so simple or pure; reality never quite lives up to the ideal. But the novelty of the present is only visible against this image of the past.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
johannesburgreviewofbooks.com | Percy Zvomuya
Percy Zvomuya draws on Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan valuable new book Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War in a reading of the modern history of conflict in the Horn of Africa. Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray WarMartin Plaut and Sarah VaughanHurst Publishers, 2023ISince 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s attempts to make a radical break with his country’s immediate past has seen reforms touching on everything—the aesthetic, ideological, political, even the environmental.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Silas Nkala |Percy Zvomuya |Nhau Mangirazi |Fortune Mbele
A FIVE–MAN armed robbery gang allegedly masquerading as military intelligence and police details name-dropped members of the First Family before extorting mining firms in the Matabeleland region.
Three of the suspects Munyaradzi Charakupa, Victor Jaja and Tawanda Mangi appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Evelyn Madzikatire yesterday charged with impersonating public officials, attempted extortion and extortion.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Austin Karonga |Kevin Mapasure |Silas Nkala |Percy Zvomuya
WESTSIDE grafted their way into the National Premier League (NPL) T20 Blast playoffs after handing SOGO Rangers their first defeat of the tournament on Tuesday.
The Mutare-based side sealed the last slot on eight points together. Gladiators, with a better net run rate, dislodged Rainbow by nine wickets in an afternoon match played at Harare Sports Club.
SOGO Rangers and Takashinga Patriots 1 finished first and second, respectively, with 12 and 10 points.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Priviledge Gumbodete |Percy Zvomuya |Nhau Mangirazi |Fortune Mbele
GOVERNMENT has remained tight-lipped over demands by teachers for better salaries and improved working conditions following educators' declaration of incapacitation when schools open on Tuesday.
Schools are set to open for the third term on September 10 and will close on December 5.
In March this year, the government gave teachers a US$20 pay increase, pushing their salaries to US$320 from US$300 plus a local currency component.
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Sep 3, 2024 | 
newsday.co.zw | Gary Gerald Mtombeni |Percy Zvomuya |Nhau Mangirazi |Fortune Mbele
GOVERNMENT has started constructing seven new silos across the country to expand the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silo network.
This project seeks to increase the nation’s strategic grain reserves from the current capacity of about 750 000 metric tonnes to 1,5 million metric tonnes.
GMB chief executive Edison Badarai told NewsDay at the weekend that each of the new silos will have a storage capacity of 56 000 metric tonnes.
