The Palestine Museum US in Woodbridge, CT is challenging the Zionist-Israeli narrative in the United States by telling the Palestinian story through the arts.
Vera Tamari’s intimate story of her family’s life before 1948 allows us to dream of how life might have been in Palestine if the Nakba had never happened.
Throughout her five decade long career, renowned Palestinian artist Samia Halaby has been known for her stunning abstract expressionist works, as well as her outspoken activism. Her latest project, Drawing the Kafr Qassem Massacre, raises the question of how Halaby addresses and locates politics in her work – and whether her Marxist understanding of politics is fast receding from an art world increasingly focused on questions of political efficacy.
Artists in Gaza used the remnants and memory of the Yasser Arafat International Airport to take their first step towards liberation.
Whitworth Art Gallery director Alistair Hudson has been asked to step down from his position after being targeted by a pro-Israel legal group, The Guardian reports. The campaign to remove him was sparked by a 2021 art exhibition that contained a statement expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The gallery is run by the University of Manchester. Art Forum reports that Hudson was “ousted.”
Photographer Morgan Ashcom’s portfolio “OPEN” captures the dynamism and dignity of Palestinian life while simultaneously highlighting the conditions of Israeli oppression.
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s “If only this mountain between us could be ground to dust” is the artists’ first exhibition in a major US museum, and the first Palestinian exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. “It is hard to put in words what we experienced while being there and how powerfully Palestinian voices were being amplified and empowered,” writes Malak Shalabi.
“Facing Gaza,” by artist-scholar Robert Hardwick Weston is a collection of montages of images posted on social media, juxtaposing destruction in Gaza during the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas, and life in Israel.
A battle over pro-Israel censorship in the art world shows how Palestine activists can fight back and win.
The Middle East Union festival is a literary festival that includes musical and queer performances, readings, live panels, and online discussions, held in Berlin from August 12 to 15.