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Category Archives: Art in Beirut

1. 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.

   Tags: Mona Hatoum, Tate Modern

2. 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.

   Tags: "Scratching on Things I Disavow", Dubai, Gulf Labor Coalition, Lebanon, Walid Raad

3. “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.

   Tags: "Permanent War", ACLU, Bill Burke, Bonnie Donohue, Claire BEckett, Coco Fusco, Guantanamo Diary, Harun Farocki, Jamal Penjweny, Ken Hruby, Lamia Jorgeige, Matthew Arnold, mohamedou slahi, Pamela Allara, Richard Mosse, Sig Ban Schmidt, Steve Dalachinsky, Trevor Paglen

4. 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.

   Tags: After the Battle, Barzan, Closed Curtain, Coming Forth by Day, Dirty wars, Hala Lotfy, Jafar Panahi, Jeremy Scahill, Mahdi Fleifel, Seattle Globalist, Seattle International Film Festival, The Attack, Yousry Nasrallah, Ziad Doueiri

5. RABIH MROUḖ at INIVA London

   Rabih Mroué─The People are Demanding Rabih Mroué withdrew a work from his one person exhibition at INIVA in London, and left this label instead. “The work I, the Undersigned” was supposed to be here. It is an installation which consists of two monitors and one wall text that draws attention to the intentional disregard of […]

   This entry was posted on June 13, 2011 and is filed under Art in Beirut, Rabih Mroué.

   Tags: Arab Spring, British protests, INIVA, Lebanon, Rabih Mroue, The People are Demanding

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