Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Selma Waldman's Black Book of Aggressors V

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These are only two images from the most recent Wall of Perpetrators by Selma Waldman. The Wall consists of a total of 40 images all drawn on...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

my new website and my new grandson

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www.artandpoliticsnow.com is now online and available for everyone to see! and this is my brand new grandson for everyone to see! Art and Po...
Saturday, December 1, 2007

Roger Shimomura Minidoka on my Mind

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Roger Shimomura American Infamy no 2 Acrylic on canvas 72 x 120 inches Currently on view at Greg Kucera gallery, Seattle "I offer this ...
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...