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продолжаем книжную рубрику и ищем в Москве споты с англоязычной литературой --> Garage Museum for Contemporary Art и SALE, о котором мы уже писали и с которого уйти налегке не получится for example, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - A question of evidence Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) is an international art and advocacy foundation created in 2002 by the philanthropist and collector Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza, based in Madrid and Vienna. Few abstracts from the catalogue that is dedicated to art+politics theme to understand its discourse: A Question of Evidence presents works by artists and cultural practitioners who engage with, or comment upon, the difficulty of creating, collecting, and disseminating evidence-based material around issuies such as identity politics, the suppression of human rights, democratic reform, and restrictions on free expression and representation. Can contemporary art make a difference, be the seed for political innovation? Nothing is impossible. We must explore ways to shift the political paradigms through incentive rather than pressure. Instead of power centers, forums and institutions, art addresses people's minds - and that is its greatest strenght. How easily does evidence become questionable as the authorities, the media, or the travel industry manipulate it? What is evidence, and what becomes of it? These are difficult questions to ask ourselves, let alone to answer. Facts can become evasive, and with them, our notions of right and wrong. Some of mankind's greatest minds have interwoven the philosophy of knowledge with the philosophy of morals. In a way, this tells us that we cannot value Good without the True. ...