Long disdained by travelers, the airport will feature new, site-specific artworks as part of an $8 billion refurbishment project.
Mariam Ghani
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SAAM Highlights Cecilia Vicuña, Coco Fusco, and Mariam Ghani at Third Women Filmmakers Festival
From March 1 to 21, watch online screenings hosted by the Smithsonian American Art Museum and attend weekly conversations with the artists and museum curators.
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The Afghan Films Left Unfinished Under Communist Rule
The reels for the aborted film projects had been kept in the archives of Afghan Film, which director Mariam Ghani mined for her new movie What We Left Unfinished.
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How Artists Strive to Make Sense of the Archive in the “Middle East”
The ambitious volume Dissonant Archives: Contemporary Visual Culture and Contested Narratives in the Middle East in many ways responds to the post-1990s archive fever, but from a specific geographic locale.
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Hyperallergic Podcast: Tania Bruguera, Mariam Ghani, Queens International
In our second episode we focus on New York’s borough of Queens, which is becoming a growing hub of artistic activity in the city.
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Images of War Outside the Frame
Seeking revelation in the ways that war is curtailed, hidden, biased, and unfinished, Frames of War, a rigorous group show at the small but dauntlessly ambitious Bushwick nonprofit Momenta Art, approaches state violence through the edges of recognition.
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Radical Archive Fever
Radical Archives is a two-day conference organized by the artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani running today and tomorrow at New York University (NYU). Collaborators since 2004 on the project “Index of the Disappeared,” Ganesh and Ghani organized Radical Archives as part of their 2013–14 residency at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
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A Political Edge for SF Asian Contemporary Art Week
The second annual Asian Contemporary Art Week will descend upon the San Francisco Bay Area tomorrow with myriad scheduled events highlighting art practices engaged with Asian social and political issues.