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“I could not have a relationship with a regime that is now officially complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestinians,” said Mohamed Badarne, a Berlin-based artist.
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Part II of a report on the 2018 Spring Exhibitions in Sharjah and the March Meeting.
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Part I of two reports from the 2018 Spring Exhibitions and the March Meeting in Sharjah.
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Hyperallergic travels to Cairo to see one among a new wave of exhibitions that are reintroducing Egyptian modern art to a wider audience.
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Our picks for the best art shows in the world this year.
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Simone Fattal’s ancient-looking artifacts beckon from afar.
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — The show looks to answer the questions: How can we produce memory out of situations in which history has been annihilated? How can archeologists reconstruct sites in-situ where all the elements have gone missing?
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — For the renegade Iranian artist Farideh Lashai, landscape painting became a reflexive gesture to experiment with new forms and animated methods.
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SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — In the words of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, “there is no political power without control of the archive, if not memory.”
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The directors of some of the world's most important art institutions, including the Tate and MoMA, have written a letter to UAE-affiliated art organizations asserting that "artists and academics should be allowed free passage to conduct research and work that is done in a peaceful and productive man
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A former professor at Zayed University in Abu Dhabi has argued that claims of academic freedom in the country are "essentially worthless" in an article for the Chronicle of Higher Education.