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Mebrak Tareke

Mebrak Tareke is the founder of TiMS Creative, a global consultancy on the future of storytelling. She has written for Arnet News, Frieze, and The Brooklyn Rail on art, politics, and culture in the African diaspora and the Americas.

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Impressions From Mexico City’s Bustling Art Week

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke February 13, 2023February 14, 2023

Alternative curatorial projects are taking creative risks and shaping Mexico City’s art fair ecosystem on their own terms.

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Institutional Critique That Makes You Laugh and Cry

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke February 6, 2023February 7, 2023

Miguel Calderón examines class, violence, and corruption in Mexican society with macabre, irreverent humor.

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What Is Happening in Tigray?

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke February 2, 2023February 3, 2023

Scores of cultural heritage sites are in ruins amid a fragile truce and an ongoing war of narratives.

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Ways of Seeing, According to Roberto Gil de Montes

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke December 7, 2022December 8, 2022

Nothing on the canvas wholly captures what it means to belong on land or at sea.

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Reflections on Asmara’s Modernist (and Colonial) Dream

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke September 4, 2017September 1, 2017

It’s hard not to question why Asmara was named a World Heritage Site, especially as the country is reeling from decades of hardship.

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Searching for Oscar Murillo in a Small Town in Colombia

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke November 10, 2016November 15, 2016

Even if Murillo poked fun at the art world’s oblivion and privilege, what a fool I was to think that my stint in Palenque would instantly morph into a sequel to his work.

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The Unsettling Urge to Find Beauty Amid War

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke October 25, 2016

At Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School, a show of four artists explores how our memories of a place can shift radically after war.

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In Ireland, a Biennial Examines the Vestiges of Empire

Avatar photo by Mebrak Tareke July 15, 2016July 17, 2016

LIMERICK, Ireland — Still (the) Barbarians is the bold title for this year’s EVA International Biennial in Limerick.

Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian

Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch confronts the challenges of being Indigenous and female in the United States and Canada. On view in NYC.

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