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this article originally appeared in a shorter version here http://www.artaccess.com/articles/12634620 Bonfire Gallery “Michelle Kumata: Regeneration” to March 26 We are compelled to enter “Regeneration,” Michelle Kumata’s exhibition at the Bonfire Gallery by the banners in the gallery windows. In the exhibition, Kumata is addressing the difficult subject of the long term […]
“Emotional Numbness, the Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems” This exhibition is in Tehran, Iran, but available to see anywhere! It is a collaboration between US based group WEAD, Women Eco Artists Dialog and artists in Tehran, Iran. You can see two excellent online tours of the exhibition here […]
Mona Hatoum overtly expresses violence in her early performance works, then through metaphor with minimal materials she brings that sense of threat into our own bodies and lives.
Walid Raad Scratching on Things I Disavow at the Museum of Modern Art probes the interconnections of art, money, history, in the Middle East, focusing on Saadiyat (Happiness) Island in Dubai.
Two blogs about Syria make visible with video, drawings, signs, and photographs, the realities for people on the ground as they are on the receiving end of bombs from one country after another.
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict” presents the repeated destruction and instant death enabled by contemporary technology
Tate Modern London”A Chronicle of Interventions” includes Group Material 1984 Timeline A Chronicle of US Intervention in Central and Latin America.” Other more recent artists from Central America also address colonialism, but with much less passion.
Syria Speaks is a profoundly moving new book published by English Pen with a collection of essays, art, and analysis of culture in Syria since the uprising began in 2011.
Antoni Tàpies Catalan Master and political activist throughout his life. His grand and beautiful paintings and material objects always have a subtext of the anguish of the Franco years and concern for the injustice of the wars of the 21st century.
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
What we can learn from this art in the midst of the national trauma of the Civil War : I celebrate Eleanor Jones Harvey interpretations of Civil War paintings and photographs in her excellent exhibition and book “The Civil War and American Art”.
From flooded sites in Turkey to cartoons in Syria, a look at someaspects of culture in the midst of the political and economic earthquakes in Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Syria.
Democracy Now in honor of the New Year had a program called “Culture of Resistance”, but it omitted visual artists and many voices. I wrote an imaginary interview with Amy Goodman to fill the gap.
As an artist, Mroué has managed to provide a way into the Syrian nightmare.