1. “Hardest Kinds of Soft” at Kunsthalle Gießen
From April 11 to July 20, 2025, Kunsthalle Gießen hosted Hardest Kinds of Soft, curated by Nadia Ismail. Céline Ducrot’s ethereal, synthetic figures and Cathrin Hoffmann’s grotesque hybrids explore human identity in a (post)digital era — navigating intimacy, alienation, vulnerability, and rigidity.
2. What happens to an artist’s market after death?
Daniel Grant challenges the assumption that an artist’s market always surges after they die. Flooding of artworks, estate management, and supply control play significant roles. The market for Thomas Hart Benton, for example, revived only after 15 years.
3. Africa’s real size — and how we visualize it
The “Correct The Map” campaign, backed by the African Union, calls for replacing the distorting Mercator projection with the area-accurate Equal Earth map. This change affects not just cartography, but global education, identity, and perception.