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From experimental music and overlooked Greek avant-gardes to the changing geography of contemporary art, Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art presents an unusually compelling autumn programme. An ordinary metal drying rack, its clothing replaced by silkscreen prints of abstract landscapes, is among the works in Niki Kanagini’s retrospective at Athens’ National Museum of Contemporary Art.…

Housed in a remarkable former brewery, Greece’s National Museum of Contemporary Art is challenging familiar ideas about artistic geography, national identity and the purpose of a contemporary museum. In Mona Hatoum’s Fix It (2004), rusting factory equipment sits behind industrial mesh fencing, illuminated by electric bulbs that flicker unpredictably. Metal containers, shelving and mechanical components…