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Syphilis in art: an entertainment in 4 parts. From the New Museum Triennial’s Songs for Sabotage to the Triennial of Photography Hamburg’s Breaking Point, artwork institutions right now are striving to inspire social and political action. We discover that the artists of both the sixteenth and 17th centuries, while considerably reticent about syphilis, are nonetheless at pains to suggest that sex is not with out its severe unintended effects.
Latest solo exhibitions include AMOS’ WORLD: Episode One, mumok, Vienna, 2018; Cécile B. Evans, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2017; Cécile B. Evans, Museum Leuven, 2017; and Cécile B. Evans, Tate Liverpool, 2016.Recent group exhibitions embrace Blind Religion: Between the Visceral and the Cognitive in Modern Art, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2018; Being There, Louisiana Museum of Fashionable Artwork, Humlebaek, 2017-18; and Äppärät, Ballrtoom Marfa, Texas, 2015-sixteen.