Emily Jacir: Europa

The Whitechapel Gallery is showing works by Palestinian artist Emily Jacir this autumn, focusing  on her dialogue with Europe, Italy and the Mediterranean. The exhibition will last from 30 September 2015 to 3 January 2016. One of the highlights of the show is Material for a film, for which she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale …

Making History in the Middle East

Glenn Lowry, former F|S curator of Islamic art and now director of the Museum of Modern Art, talks about contemporary art in the Middle East. In this presentation he looks at how history is constructed, in a region characterized by deja-vu, by the constant return of history. He mentions the Gulf and Levant, and in …