Category Archives: Art in War
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Michelle Kumata
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 […]
This entry was posted on March 8, 2022 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Asian American Art, Uncategorized. -
Iran US Collaboration: Emotional Numbness: The Impact of War on the Human Psyche and Ecosystems
“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 […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2020 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Art in War, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Mona Hatoum at the Tate Modern
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.
This entry was posted on July 12, 2016 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Palestine, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
Walid Raad Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
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.
This entry was posted on February 23, 2016 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Abounaddara and Syria Freedom Forever: Making visible the ongoing tragedy of Syria:
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.
This entry was posted on December 16, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art in War, Syria, Uncategorized. -
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict”
“Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict” presents the repeated destruction and instant death enabled by contemporary technology
This entry was posted on February 25, 2015 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, South Africa, Uncategorized. -
The Tate Modern “A Chronicle of Interventions” Spring 2014
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.
This entry was posted on August 30, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Uncategorized. -
Syria Speaks: Art and Culture from the Frontline
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.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Uncategorized. -
ANTONI TÀPIES 1923 – 2012
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.
This entry was posted on January 3, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
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.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Art of Democracy, Film, Uncategorized. -
Eleanor Harvey’s groundbreaking exhibition The Civil War and American Art
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”.
This entry was posted on July 3, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art in War, Civil War, Uncategorized. -
Contemporary Art and Archeology in the Middle East: Crying Caryatids, Flooded Histories, Graffiti, and Puppet Shows
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.
This entry was posted on February 23, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art in War, Contemporary Art. -
My imaginary interview with Amy Goodman on Culture and Resistance
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.
This entry was posted on January 1, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Art of Democracy. -
Rabih Mroué The Pixelated Revolution
As an artist, Mroué has managed to provide a way into the Syrian nightmare.
This entry was posted on February 29, 2012 and is filed under Art in War, Rabih Mroue The Pixelated Revolution.
