In Brief
The exhibition Once Upon a Time Palmyra: The Pearl of the Desert at Portfolio, with photography by Emmanuel Catteau, owner of the space, capitalizes on the recent Palmyra-related and features his 2006 snapshots from the historic site.
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ISTANBUL — The ground was literally shaking as we walked into the dilapidated Rizzo Palace on the island of Büyükada, the biggest of the Prince Islands of Istanbul.
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There is a contemporary preoccupation that our culture — global, Western, 'modern' — will not survive.
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Artist Tania Bruguera was detained by Cuban police yesterday in her Havana home after concluding the final reading of her project, the Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism.
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BEIRUT — Shortly after the opening of their most recent exhibition, I Must First Apologize in Nice, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige returned home to Beirut to deliver their “An Additional Continent” lecture at Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Ar
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MADRID — The moving image, now at the center stage of contemporary art, not only as video and film but as ‘artists’ cinema,’ was once a fringe movement at a time when recorded tapes were difficult to manipulate and even more difficult to preserve so that many of those early works are now irretrievab