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I have just returned from viewing Here and Elsewhere at the New Museum in NYC. The show reflects the concerns of 45 artists living in the Arab world or the diaspora, as well as addressing the dilemma of culturally defined art, and art as representation of an expected political or cultural stance.
Artist Doris Bittar’s latest works explore layers and patterning, whether through her Conversations with Modernism, paintings in which she examines “how a student of art who is also a colonial subject converses with the more recent Masters” or Walking Patterns, 3-dimensional assemblages of remnants collected on walks in the Middle East and California, overlaid with invented, faintly arabesque lattice patterning.
Thursday September 17, 2015, The Map is Not the Territory group art exhibit that combines Palestinian, Irish & Native American artists’ artwork opens at Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center in Boston/East Cambridge along with the Boston Palestine Film Festival.
Conceived by Jennifer Heath and co-curated with Dagmar Painter, the exhibition is traveling throughout the United States and abroad on a five-year tour.
Manal Deeb has a new studio space in Lorton VA, officially opening Saturday September 12, 2015.
The GMU School of Art is proud to announce that Helen Zughaib, internationally recognized artist based in Washington DC, will produce an original edition of prints for this season’s Navigation Press during the week of September 7 to 12.
Home Away From Home is a multi-media project juxtaposing recorded oral histories (in English) with portraits from the San Francisco Bay Area Palestinian community, second largest in the U.S. The viewer will be able to hear the voice while looking into the (photographed) face of the person telling their story.
Artistic Weapons of Mass Communication presents the work of five artists who utilize different creative means to communicate strong statements through their art, challenging injustice and hoping to open our eyes to a deeper mutual understanding.
In Paris last week, I noticed this sign, dedicating a square in the 6th arrondissment to Mahmoud Darwish. Mahmoud Darwish Square (Place Mahmoud Darwich) was dedicated by former Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë and President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas on July 15, 2010.
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