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This image of the monumental painting "Wall Wailing" by Marlene Dumas hardly does it justice. A stunning show, called "Against the Wall," at the David Zwirner gallery in New York. Go see it. Show that you care about segregation in your name. Thanks to Mohammed of Vancouver.

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Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
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  1. Tuyzentfloot says:
    March 23, 2010 at 3:10 pm

    I just can’t get used to people using words as “stunning”. It’s a culture thing. The american optimistic attitude is nice and there’s something very sound about it, but at times the pollyannah style enthusiasm seems just alien. Whingelanders one other hand are always moaning and complaining and you know it’s wrong and stupid, but it’s also familiar and comfortable. It’s behaviour I can understand.

    That’s another thing. People can’t deliver decent fullblown blanket generalizations anymore.

  2. sky7i says:
    March 23, 2010 at 4:19 pm

    Speaking of fine paintings, here’s a new one by Katie Miranda entitled “Superfluous Young Men”, in honour of Herr Kramer.

    link to etsy.com

  3. Richard Parker says:
    March 23, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    It’s a shame that these paintings can’t be shown on the internet in larger sizes and in full colour.
    Marlene Dumas’ painting ‘Wall Wailing’ is really nothing much more than a painted adaptation of an old photo showing either British Mandate or 1967 Israeli troops lining up Arab inhabitants for humiliation against the Wailing Wall, then in the Maghrebi sector of the Old City, which was totally demolished after 1967 to allow the current Disneyland of the Kotel.
    link to scarsdalemura-kara.com

    Few would appreciate the significance of the Wailing Wall, let alone write prayers to stick in it, if they knew that only a quarter of what is visible dates back to King Herod, that lovable old baby-killer who was an Idumaean puppet of the Romans, not a Jew. The rest of it above that, which makes the Wailing Wall imposing nowadays, was built by the Ummayads and Ottomans, to protect and preserve their own real holy places, for nearly 2000 years after the Romans demolished Herod’s grandiose attempts to expand the area of the ‘Third Temple’.

    • Avi says:
      March 23, 2010 at 5:45 pm

      Marlene Dumas’ painting ‘Wall Wailing’ is really nothing much more than a painted adaptation of an old photo showing either British Mandate or 1967 Israeli troops lining up Arab inhabitants for humiliation against the Wailing Wall

      Actually, when I first saw the image at the top of this article, I thought it was a low resolution photo of what you describe, as I recall seeing countless such black and white photos from Mandatory Palestine and during and after the 1967 occupation of Jerusalem.

    • Avi says:
      March 23, 2010 at 5:45 pm

      Marlene Dumas’ painting ‘Wall Wailing’ is really nothing much more than a painted adaptation of an old photo showing either British Mandate or 1967 Israeli troops lining up Arab inhabitants for humiliation against the Wailing Wall

      Actually, when I first saw the image at the top of this article, I thought it was a low resolution photo of what you describe, as I recall seeing countless such black and white photos from Mandatory Palestine and during and after the 1967 occupation of Jerusalem.

    • VR says:
      March 24, 2010 at 12:16 am

      I noticed this by the poster on the Angry Arabs Comment Section web site –

      “Richard Parker on Mondo is saying that it’s a pity that hi-res images are not available on the internet. This is incorrect, but I can’t post there to say it. I don’t have an account. All one needs to do is to click on the link embedded in Philip’s post.

      David Zwirner gallery

      Can you just inform them of this possibility
      Thanks”

      Marlene Dumas’ new exhibition “Against theWall”

      Great site, if you get a chance visit it, it has a link to Mondoweiss.

  4. Taxi says:
    March 23, 2010 at 5:40 pm

    The painting reminds me of old photographs from the day – I’ve seen a few of them in people’s photo albums – people in the middle east I’ve met and befriended in my travels there.

    They all make me want to weep.

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