Palestine Exhibition in Paris
Review of the Exhibition: « Palestine, la création dans tous ses états ». Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, June 23 to November 22, 2009 A Palestinian woman in a cute white spacesuit plants a...
View ArticleCity Branding vs Artistic Freedom
The prospect of having performance artists dressed up like Disney’s Snow White parading with toy guns in the city hall caused quite a stir in The Hague over the last weeks. It is not that the Dutch are...
View ArticleJeddah about its own art scene
This is part of a catalogue I wrote to accompany the new solo show by Ayman Yossri Daydban at Athr Gallery. The book was launched yesterday Voices from Jeddah Discussion of the Saudi Art Scene today...
View ArticleSo-called ‘terrorists’ finally receive a democratic platform – as an art project
I chaired a summit and helped curate a project designed by the Dutch artist Jonas Staal in Berlin on 4 and 5 May, as part of the Berlin Biennial. The New World Summit is the latest step in the artist’s...
View ArticleAfghanistan in Documenta 13
Note: a very different, one-page graphic version of this article was published in the Belgian art magazine A Prior #23; see the article here. Another article about this subject was published in the...
View ArticleAn Encyclopedia of National Representation: Review of the Venice Biennale, 2013
Although I came to Venice to test and explore an artist’s project that fundamentally critiques the system of national representation at the Biennale, I must admit I enjoyed the national pavilions much...
View ArticleWhat I would do if I became director of De Appel in Amsterdam
De Appel is the intellectual powerhouse of Amsterdam’s art world – or maybe it isn’t anymore, but it still has that reputation. It’s a non-commercial art space that offers a high-level (and...
View ArticleSearching for Ancient Arabia
I’m about to start a FIND fellowship at New York University Abu Dhabi called ‘Searching for Ancient Arabia’ and I’m looking for artists, curators, critics and scholars to participate in this research...
View Article‘Searching for Ancient Arabia’– further information about the research project
A workshop will be held for all those interested in participating in this research project at the Downtown Campus (off Hamdan Street) of NYU Abu Dhabi on Tuesday 25 February, from 18:00 to 20:30. For...
View ArticleArticle about Jonas Staal in Syria
Closing ceremony of the New World Summit in Derik, Syria I published this article in the December 2015 edition of The Art Newspaper – with first a ‘news’ story on page 3, and then a feature on pages...
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