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The Story: Argentine voters changed the balance of power in that country's Chamber of Deputies, and in its Senate, with this Sunday's vote. Those bodies...

Curated by Iria Candela at the Met Breuer, the exhibition is one of the last gasps of creative breaths the museum will have before its cyclopean building of granite rock becomes home to the Frick Collection next year. (Inspired by the belligerency of Futurism, he enlisted with the Italian army during World War I, from 1916 to 1918.) Others claim that his work — even when commissioned by Mussolini’s government — was too aesthetically radical to be considered a product of the far-right regime. Fontana permanently returned to his Milan studio in 1947, two years after the war ended. If Kazimir Malevich‘s “Black Square” (1915) pushed the canvas toward its endgame, then Fontana’s punctured paintings provide entryway into that apocalyptic void. The Cuts series developed in 1958, more than a decade after Fontana began encouraging his students in Buenos Aires to experiment with projections, lights, and mirrors under the doctrine of Spatialism. “He is really abstract, one of the young artists who have done something important.” Still, something about Klein’s work irked the artist. Nevertheless, he worked with the white monochrome from the beginning of his Cuts series to the end. Critics of Fontana have sometimes remarked that he loved modeling more than sculpting. I would go further and argue that the artist was more a model than a sculptor.

Paris police said 133 people were injured, including 23 police officers, as crowds trashed the streets of the capital Saturday. Officers fired tear gas and used water cannon to tamp down the violence as protesters torched cars, smashed windows, looted stores and tagged the Arc de Triomphe with spray paint. Some radical far-right and far-left activists were involved in the riot, as well as a “great number” of protesters wearing yellow jackets, Delpuech said. The fluorescent jackets, which French motorists are required to have in their cars for emergencies, are an emblem of a grassroots citizens’ movement protesting fuel taxes. At the security meeting, the French leader asked his interior minister to consider making “adaptations” to security procedures to try to contain ongoing protests sparked by rising fuel taxes, Macron’s office said in a statement. Macron also asked Prime Minister Edouard Philippe to meet with the heads of France’s major political parties and representatives from the grassroots movement behind the protests. “It’s difficult to reach the end of the month. People work and pay a lot of taxes and we are fed up,” said Rabah Mendez, a protester who marched peacefully Saturday in Paris. Speaking in Buenos Aires before he flew home to Paris, Macron said he welcomed the views of protesters but vowed that those who participated in wreaking havoc would be held responsible for their behavior. “(Violence) has nothing to do with the peaceful expression of a legitimate anger” and “no cause justifies” attacks on police or pillaging stores and burning buildings, Macron said.

Leaders of the G20 industrialized nations meeting in Argentina this week, and on President Trump's agenda is a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. The panel discusses. » Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsnbc About: MSNBC is the premier…

But this is not just an important moment in abortion rights. Until now the public image of pro-choice politics has been heavily influenced by 1970s “women’s liberation” movements in the US and the UK (also known as Second Wave feminism). This group did not just look at abortion or sexual liberation. ‘Intersectional’ feminism Ireland’s Repeal movement and Argentina’s Ní Una Menos are not just feminist campaigns, they are intersectional feminist campaigns. Social justice activism must include all voices and injustices or it is not socially just. By adopting an intersectional approach, the current global pro-choice discussion uses individual rights to start a conversation on collective experiences which are linked to, but not solely about, abortion rights. Transforming politics The most obvious example of how pro-choice feminist movements are transforming what it means to “do politics” is found in their use of social media. Public demonstrations and protests have been marked by mass arrests and protests positioned as less effective than engagement in politics through other means. Global pro-choice movements are now showing that broad-based, social justice oriented movements that mobilise online and engage in spectacles and protests are effective. They prove that disruption (whether through mass coordinated protests or small spectacular actions) is an important political tactic.

But this World Cup has proven that the current state of world politics is something that can't be escaped, or ignored. Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri both made apparent Albanian nationalist gestures which imitate the Albanian flag. Many people in the former Serbian province of Kosovo, which has an ethnic Albanian majority, identify with the red and black flag. Shaqiri was born in Kosovo, while Xhaka's parents are originally from Kosovo. Racist abuse against Durmaz Sweden's Jimmy Durmaz condemned racist abuse he received after the country's 2-1 loss to Germany. That's the biggest thing you can do as a football player. Iranian women finally allowed to enjoy football Iranian women have not been allowed to attend football stadiums to watch men play football in years past. The Prince/Putin handshake When Russia opened the scoring against Saudi Arabia in the World Cup opener, the focus quickly moved from the first goal of the tournament to the two most prominent spectators. Saudi King Salman and Russian President Vladimir Putin exchanged a friendly handshake after Yury Gazinsky netted for Russia after just 12 minutes. LGBT flag confiscations An England fan has spoken of his frustration after he was told to take a rainbow flag down inside Nizhny Novgorod stadium.