topic: art
October 6, 2014
Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...
Art
September 30, 2014
A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just watched soldiers execute four of her children,...
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September 13, 2014
In April of 2014, artist and sculptor Wangechi Mutu started a photography project on Instagram in memory of the 20th anniversary of the...
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September 4, 2014
Asim Rafiqui on art institutions and their collusion with the politics of imperialism. This below is the sort of cultural whitewash that...
Art
July 31, 2014
At the docks of Pidjiguti in the capital Bissau, where the workers’ massacre that ignited the revolution in 1959 took place, the military...
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June 30, 2014
Originally published in The Indypendent Blog . “You are recreating the very racism this art is supposed to critique,” I yelled. The...
Art
May 16, 2014
In August 1994, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar traveled to Rwanda in the aftermath of the country’s infamous genocide. He documented scenes of...
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April 29, 2014
The Norwegian artists Mohamed Ali Fadlabi and Lars Cuzner are recreating, as part of a nationwide commemoration of 200 years of the...
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April 7, 2014
Tammam-Azzam.jpg Artist's Introduction There is no war in Syria. There is a revolution. Art cannot save the country. Nothing can save Syria...
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