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The great strength of art is that it’s able to explore meanings that are ambiguous and complex, that leave you with questions rather than answers.”

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Climate to fake news: Venice Biennale takes on era's big challenges

Ralph Rugoff’s exhibition also explores rightwing politics, migration and surveillance

In the era of "fake news" and social media echo chambers, Venice's Biennale art fair is challenging preconceived biases by suggesting other ways of contextualising modern society's biggest issues.
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📷'Discordo Ergo Sum' by Austrian artist Renate Bertlmann, "Flight" by Polish artist Roman Stanczak, "Musk Ox" by American sculptor Jimmie Durham

One of the world's biggest AIDS charity events, Vienna's Life Ball, will be held for the last time in June, the organiser said.

Launched by former make-up artist Keszler, among others, and hosted in the prestigious surroundings of Vienna's Town Hall, the ball has raised around 30 million euros ($34 million) for anti-AIDS causes within Austria and abroad.

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Curtain falls on Vienna AIDS ball after 26 years

One of the world's biggest AIDS charity events, Vienna's Life Ball, will be held for the last time in June, the organiser said Friday. Gery Keszler said the progress achieved in fighting AIDS over the 26 years since the ball's inception meant it had become harder to raise funds to hold the