Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Iraqi Women by Nadje Sadig Al-Ali

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Since I am on the subject of books. Iraqi Women is another crucial book. The subtitle is "untold stories from 1948 to the Present"...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Dahr Jamail's Beyond the Green Zone Read It

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Dahr Jamail's book, Beyond the Green Zone Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq, is an essential book to read for an...
Thursday, November 8, 2007

Kara Walker

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Kara Walker has really started to talk loudly about miscegenation. Although I have seen her works for years, they always seemed to me to be ...

Extreme Interiors Olive Ayhens

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Olive Ayhens expressionist nightmares of contemporary life currently on view in New York City at Frederieke Taylor Gallery are tour de forc...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Rashad Selim Iraqi artist in London

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Baghdad Pavement 2006 "I have a sense of devastation within me. The works I have deal with devastation. " Rashad Selim "Art h...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Hana Malallah

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"I am soaked in catastrophe like a sponge." So states Hana Malallah a major artist based in Baghdad who is currently in exile in...
Monday, October 1, 2007

Not only possible but also necessary, optimism in the age of global war

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The lengthy title of the 10th Istanbul Biennial suggests Hou Hanru's desire to address the role of art in the midst of the pressing soci...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art

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On a positive note, Seattle has an extraordinary exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the Asian Art Musuem until December 2 Originally ...

Willie Cole in Seattle

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The exhibition of the work of Willie Cole at the Frye Art Museum is a stunning installation by a major American artist. Cole's relations...
Thursday, July 26, 2007

James W. Washington, Jr. Creativity as a path to freedom

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This sculpture by James W. Washington, Jr, The Chaotic Half, was made in 1945, long before the so-called era of Civil Rights in the 1960s. I...