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An Omnivorous Tour of the 2017 Whitney Biennial

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 13, 2017

See highlights from the 2017 Whitney Biennial, which opens to the public later this week.

Posted inArt

Looking for Origins of Arab Modernism in Kuwait

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian March 19, 2015March 23, 2015

KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait — The United Arab Emirates may dominate the popular image of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries today, but for most of the 20th century the region’s poster child for oil-fueled prosperity and cosmopolitan aspiration was Kuwait.

Posted inIn Brief

90 Human Rights Groups Call for Migrant Labor Reform in Gulf States

by Mostafa Heddaya November 24, 2014November 24, 2014

Ahead of a meeting of labor ministers from Gulf and Asian states later this week, Human Rights Watch released a call for the reform of laws protecting migrant workers co-signed by 90 human rights organizations and unions worldwide.

Posted inArt

Delusions of Grandeur: GCC at MoMA PS1 and the New Museum

by Mostafa Heddaya September 26, 2014September 30, 2014

What does it mean when the people hired to make a body of work relevant, as the magazine Bidoun was for the collective GCC, call it “quick and cute and perfectly timed”?

Posted inOpinion

When Art as a Subversive Act Is too Subversive

by Stephanie Bailey December 6, 2012December 10, 2012

LONDON — Cultural relativism is a problematic thing. If you don’t agree, ask Caveh Zahedi, whose new film, The Sheikh and I, is set to premiere at Brooklyn’s Factory 25 on December 7 after having been banned on the grounds of blasphemy by the biennial that commissioned it.

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