Rima Chahrour of Lebanese artist collective The Freaks looks at the use of dolls in the works of Zena El Khalil and Mohammad Rawas
Monthly archives of “November 2012”
Redefining the Rock Star
‘This is a being unshaken by the ravages of time, defying practice, medium, and creed … The rock star is dead. Long live the rock star’
See the Light
Sophie Kazan talks to the V&A’s Curator of Photographs, Marta Weiss about the groundbreaking ‘Light from the Middle East’ photography exhibition
Viva La Evolucion
While some would consider talking about a sort of revolution, others would prefer to look at the artistic happenings in Saudi Arabia as an evolution
Picture This
Iraqi-Canadian photographer Tamara Abdul Hadi shines a light on the misunderstood men of the Middle East in her photographic series, ‘Picture an Arab Man’
Postcards from the Edge
A discussion of art from the ‘periphery’, with a focus on the Lebanese and Moroccan works on display at the San Francisco MoMA’s ‘Six Lines of Flight’ exhibition
Honour
A reflection on the often-controversial Middle Eastern notion of honour, in the context of Turkish author Elif Shafak’s latest novel of the same name