Can an Exhibition Memorialize the 1947 Partition of the Indian Subcontinent?
Arundhati Kalyan reviews ‘Proposals for a Memorial to Partition’ at Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre, probing the question of whether art, curation, and current conceptions of memorialization can do justice to a tragic historical event of this scale
A Journalist From Palestine
Narmeen Hamadeh’s work places deep importance on the Arab footprint, emphasizing her Palestinian heritage
Gradually Getting Better
Indonesian artist Yohanes Santos's intricate penmanship manifests as a source of healing where art offers a kind of medicine
Go Back, Go Back
A lens-based photo project, “Go Back, Go Back” explores the spatial, historical, and technological ambiguity of memory
Quarantine Archive
Quarantine Archive is a new series showcasing quarantine art and creativity from around the world. These are the home movies, paintings, poems etc submitted from bedrooms.
The Soft Place
Kellie Lehr’s artworks are an amalgamation of real and imagined images.
This Is Not A Dream
Digital artworks by Harshini Karunaratne that reflect on our current crisis as we face a new reality.
Kafka's Reincarnated as a Wasp
A disturbingly surreal poem to stir you from your seat, by Jon Terranova.
Captives
Jason Dunne's photo series explores monstrosity, captivity and the pain of anonymity.
"De-structures" a Photo Series
Polish photographer Bolek Wanat's disorienting photo-series draws our attention to the unseen and imperfect structures that surround us.
"The Last Word" & Others
Using both classical, and culturally specific tropes, such as skulls, along with Mummers, these artworks by Canadian artist Jamie Bradbury attempt to reveal anagnorisis, or a moment of startling discovery, leading to a form of personal resolution.
Doris Salcedo’s “Plegaria Muda”
“Plegaria Muda”: An Anti-Memorial for Young People Who Experience Daily Violence and Trauma – new art criticism by Zoe Jane Patterson.
Lunchtime Sketches
A peek inside Parisian painter Sandra Paris' notebook of food sketches and observations.
TV Dinner
TV Dinner is a modern symbol/icon of the often oppressive constraints of gender roles and life as a housewife in the 1950s.
van Gogh and Romanticizing the Tortured Artist
Depression is not a prerequisite for creativity. If anything, it stunts it, writes Calum Armitage in this op-ed.
Wild: A Collage Series
A romp through the playground that encompasses sexuality and the viewer's gaze, a collage series by Shane Allison.
An Interview with Artist Thomas Derksen
Zoe Jane Patterson talks to Canadian visual artist Thomas Derksen.
CLASS
“poetry cannot exist without a question / of utility” – what is the point of poetry in a post-capitalist world?
The Phases of Identity: A Digital Art Series
This digital art series examines Nada Al Mosa’s personal chronological issues with identity, regarding femininity and the standards in place for what womanhood is expected to be presented as a Muslim Arab.
a history of pet monkeys with camille alaphilippe
Poetry inspired by Camille Alaphilippe’s La femme au singe on view at the Musée d’Orsay, by Samantha Neugebauer.