His “Pain Relief Drawings” demonstrate how art serves as a way for the artist to cope with strife.
Ibrahim El-Salahi
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MoMA’s Travel Ban Protest Exposes a Legacy of Closeted Modernism
While MoMA has received accolades for its rehang in protest of the so-called Muslim ban, the issue brings up many questions about the work that never gets shown and why.
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MoMA Installs Works by Artists from Countries Targeted by Trump’s Travel Ban
In an unprecedented gesture, the museum has replaced works in its permanent collection galleries with eight by artists from Muslim-majority nations named in Trump’s executive order.
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Two Pioneers of Arab Abstraction, Side by Side
LONDON — In a time of acute upheaval, there is something comforting about the concurrent retrospectives currently on view at the Tate Modern for two seminal Arab modernists, Saloua Raouda Choucair and Ibrahim El-Salahi.
