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Kirsten O'Regan

Kirsten O'Regan is a freelance writer and accidental nomad. Born in England and raised in South Africa and New Zealand, she considers herself almost a New Yorker but is currently residing in London. She holds an MA in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from New York University.

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An Evocative Portrait of Athens Through Time and Family

by Kirsten O'Regan October 17, 2022October 17, 2022

In the Same Space is a moving dialogue between artist Eirini Vourloumis and her grandfather, painter Andreas Vourloumis, and a flickering portrait of the Greek capital.

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An Artist’s Homage to Family Histories and Feminism in Beirut

by Kirsten O'Regan August 1, 2019August 1, 2019

Mounira al-Solh resists homogenizing narratives about Arab women in her work’s specificity and its rejection of expected characters or sensationalized accounts.

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A Surreal Landscape Transforms the Garbage Scattered in Beirut’s Streets

by Kirsten O'Regan March 12, 2019March 12, 2019

This is an imaginary landscape crafted by humans, but the urban dweller will recognize it as scarily quotidian.

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Photographs of Beirut’s Abandoned Houses, Decades After the Civil War

by Kirsten O'Regan December 6, 2018

For seven years, Gregory Buchakjian has surveyed and photographed Beirut’s deserted buildings, memorializing a vanishing urban landscape and the lives that intersected with it.

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Glimpses of Aleppo in an Exile’s Vision of an Elegant, Eerie Realm

by Kirsten O'Regan July 11, 2018

The mysterious promise of the old gates of Aleppo’s old town and its patchwork of faiths are woven through Kevork Mourad’s pictures of “in-between spaces.”

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Miniature Military Drones Decorated in a Pakistani Folk Art Tradition

by Kirsten O'Regan February 6, 2017February 6, 2017

Mahwish Chishty projects Pakistan’s folk art traditions against the blank flanks of America’s weapons of war, subsumed by the very culture they target.

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Constructive and Creative Approaches to Talking About the Weather

by Kirsten O'Regan October 13, 2016October 14, 2016

The exhibition features 17 artists, whose wide-ranging works put the lie to prevailing notions that the weather is a soporific subject, that environmental issues cannot be made engaging.

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The Bloody History of Pakistan in Miniature Landscapes

by Kirsten O'Regan June 29, 2016June 28, 2016

LONDON — Pakistan is not an old nation state, but its history — and, indeed, its present — is uncommonly steeped in blood.

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From Fluxus to Selfies, Photographs that Blur the Performative and the Real

by Kirsten O'Regan May 13, 2016May 13, 2016

LONDON — Five figures stand cocooned in the radiating steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — four of them are naked and covered in painted spots, hanging out beneath a banner that reads “SELF-OBLITERATION.”

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The Artist Sculpting Kurdish Identity in an Iranian City

by Kirsten O'Regan October 8, 2015October 12, 2015

SANANDAJ, Iran —In the far west of Iran, in a small region called “Kordestan” — a chunk of land clinging to the Zagros mountain range and named after the ethnic Kurds who inhabit this and much of the surrounding area — is the city of Sanandaj (formerly Senna), the administrative center of the region.

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In Two Istanbul Galleries, Artists Piece Together Memories of Gezi

by Kirsten O'Regan May 21, 2015May 25, 2015

ISTANBUL — Central Istanbul looks markedly different today than it did around this time two years ago.

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Photographing the Destructive Isolation of a US Military Base in Afghanistan

by Kirsten O'Regan March 17, 2015March 17, 2015

LONDON — The documentary Restrepo (2010) opens with a dramatic shot of a helicopter whirring through the craggy brown peaks, green fields, and deep valleys of Afghanistan.

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