Highlights of recent Broad MSU exhibitions include: Trevor Paglen: The Genres; the final installment of the exhibition series The Genres: Portraiture, Still, Life, Landscape, featuring works by social scientist, researcher, and writer Trevor Paglen; Moving Time: Video Art
at 50, 1965 - 2015, one of the final exhibitions conceived by Founding Director Michael Rush exploring the development of video art from its earliest presentation, currently on view
at the China Central
Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Material Effects, which brought together six leading artists from West Africa and the diaspora whose work examines the circulation and
currency of objects and materials; and The Artist as Activist: Tayeba Begum Lipi and Mahbubur Rahman, the first major museum exhibition to bring together a comprehensive body of work by two of Bangladeshi's foremost contemporary artists.
Beijing became the core of much hustle bustle on 12th October as International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in collaboration with Institute of World Economics and Politics organised the First Workshop on Standards for Digital Fiat
Currency (DFC) for Universal Finance Access
at the Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Appearing
at the Norwegian
Academy of Science and Letters on 25th April, Jon Nicolaisen, Norges Bank's deputy governor, spoke in part about the differences between money held in banks today and the proliferation of digital
currencies, casting the central bank's research in this area against the backdrop of a world in which bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have found broader use.