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Mona Hatoum’s Videos Make a Presence From Absence
Hatoum’s early videos confront viewers with the body of the artist as a synecdoche for the collective trauma experienced by the dispossessed
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The High Line Wants You to Weigh in on Its Next Public Sculptures
From playful to political, there are 80 options by artists including Nick Cave, Mona Hatoum, and Wang Sishun.
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When You Can't Go Home Again: Immigrants and Artists Reflect
This exhibition at ICA/Boston presents works by 20 contemporary artists — many of them immigrants or members of the African diaspora — that highlight current migration events.
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Mona Hatoum's Multiple, Often Contradictory Meanings
In her new exhibition at White Cube Bermondsey, the artist presents works that loom and cower, at one moment inviting us in, at the next shutting us out.
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Mona Hatoum's Psychological Surgery
While artist’s career has consistently invited interpretation based in institutional critique and real-world tumult, it is equally constructive to consider her work from a psychological, rather than political, vantage.
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The Chilling, Anxious World of Mona Hatoum
LONDON — Tate Modern’s retrospective of Mona Hatoum spans the artist’s 35-year career, and she has made a lot of art.
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Human Rights Watch Endorses Protest Against Gulf Guggenheim
In reaction to exploitative conditions for construction laborers at the site of the upcoming Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, an international group of artists and art world figures are boycotting the Guggenheim, refusing to “participate in museum events or sell work to the museum,” reports the New York Times