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Artists and Art Nonprofits Band Together to Raise Beirut From the Rubble

by Hakim Bishara August 12, 2020November 5, 2020

Initiatives have sprung up in the aftermath of the explosion, with the goal of raising funds for relief efforts in the city and reconstructing its devastated cultural sector.

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German Museum Will Give Artist Walid Raad Prize Despite City’s Objection

by Hakim Bishara October 2, 2019

Aachen withdrew its decision to award the Lebanese-American artist a €10,000 (~$10,900) prize for providing an “evasive” answer to an inquiry about his position on the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

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Walid Raad Uses Fact and Fiction to Tell a Powerful History of Beirut

by Susan Silas May 13, 2019September 21, 2022

Raad exposes the way in which our accepted notions of historicizing events are simultaneously fact and fiction.

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How to Organize a Biennial In Occupied Territory

by Hakim Bishara October 29, 2018November 1, 2018

The Qalandiya International is in its fourth iteration and offers a bounty of solutions for curators working outside centers of power and wealth.

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Curator of Israeli Exhibit Stolen Arab Art Explains It Is a “Hostage-Taking Situation”

by Hakim Bishara July 17, 2018July 18, 2018

An exhibition in Tel Aviv is reputedly using works by leading Arab artists without their permission, and the curators say they’re doing so deliberately to provoke a conversation around the topic of boycott.

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Walid Raad’s Playful and Dead-Serious Experiments with History

by Mary Pelletier December 29, 2017December 30, 2017

Raad’s latest exhibition in Beirut explores history, archives, and reality with his signature inscrutability and dry humor.

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How Artists Strive to Make Sense of the Archive in the “Middle East”

by Angela Harutyunyan May 12, 2017

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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Best of 2016: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows

Avatar photo by Hyperallergic December 27, 2016December 30, 2016

This list barely scratches the surface of the city’s artistic offerings this year, from overdue retrospectives to surprising sides of artists we know well.

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Guggenheim Breaks Off Negotiations with Gulf Labor Over Migrant Rights

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 17, 2016April 21, 2016

On April 13, the Guggenheim Board of Trustees informed the Gulf Labor Coalition that it will no longer negotiate with the group regarding the living and working conditions of the workers who are and will be building its museum in Abu Dhabi.

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In a Performance, Walid Raad Playfully Probes His MoMA Survey

by Eva Díaz January 22, 2016January 27, 2016

A note of hysteria begins to creep into Walid Raad’s voice as he concludes his hour-long monologue performance, “Scratching on things I could disavow: Walkthrough,” at the Museum of Modern Art.

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The Pursuit of Art, 2015

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli December 26, 2015June 1, 2020

2015 was the Year of the Whitney.

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Unreliable Informants: A Walid Raad Primer

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli October 10, 2015October 14, 2015

The survey exhibition dedicated the work of Walid Raad, which opens to the public on Monday at the Museum of Modern Art, is a rich and compelling point of entry for anyone seeking a handle on this sly and elusive artist.

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