“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.
Sharjah Art Foundation
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Considering Contemporary Strategies of Activist Curating and Art Making in Sharjah
Part II of a report on the 2018 Spring Exhibitions in Sharjah and the March Meeting.
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Six Shows in Sharjah Challenge Curators to Look Beyond the Usual Suspects
Part I of two reports from the 2018 Spring Exhibitions and the March Meeting in Sharjah.
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Egyptian Surrealism and the Quest to Define Modern Art in Egypt
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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Best of 2016: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
Our picks for the best art shows in the world this year.
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From Ancient Forms, an Artist Shapes a New Lexicon
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — Simone Fattal’s ancient-looking artifacts beckon from afar.
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Two Lebanese Artists Reconstruct an Annihilated History
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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An Iranian Artist Who Found a Form of Resistance in Nature
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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The Underexplored Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art in the United Arab Emirates
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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60 Art World Luminaries Pressure UAE on “Chilling Precedent” Set by Recent Bans
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 manner.”
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Professors Weigh in on Academic Freedom in the Emirates
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.