Daily Brief — 16 October 2026

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Masdearte surveys the career of Gertrud Goldschmidt, known as Gego, the German-born Venezuelan artist whose work extended across sculpture, drawing, printmaking, textiles and artist’s books. The account follows her movement from geometric abstraction and kinetic art to parallel lines, reticuláreas, suspended sculptures, paperless drawings, Tejeduras, Bichos and Bichitos. It also traces the role of line, space, volume, transparency, fragility, light and movement in her practice. Gego studied architecture and engineering in Stuttgart and moved to Venezuela in 1939 while fleeing Nazism. Her art career began in 1953 and continued for more than four decades.

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The volume Milo Manara. Visioni presents a broad selection of works shown in the exhibition at Labirinto della Masone in Fontanellato, while reconstructing the imaginative worlds and artistic references behind them. Its framework invokes Borges’s idea of an infinite, labyrinthine universe-library and includes Manara’s reworking of some of Piranesi’s creations. The book also reflects on narration, dream, reality and fiction, including Manara’s comic adaptation of Umberto Eco’s novel, which creates a visual route through the labyrinth’s clues and mysteries. Plates, illustrations and sketches are accompanied by a text by Pietro Mercogliano; the volume’s credited texts are by Mercogliano and Claudio Curcio.

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Poet, playwright and translator Ariana Reines will appear at mumok in Vienna on Tuesday, 27 October 2026, at 19:00, for a reading and presentation of the catalogue Terminal Piece. The exhibition was curated by Fatima Hellberg and Lukas Flygare, who also edited the catalogue. Alongside their introduction, the publication includes essays by Gregg Bordowitz, Rachel Cusk, Kate Millett, Amanda Holmes and Reines. Her recent publications include The Rose and Wave of Blood. Reines’s poetry collection A Sand Book received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2020 and was longlisted for the National Book Award.