• Features

The Victims of Critique: A Symposium at the Guggenheim

The conversation positioned protest, whether of a person or an institution, as an attack upon civility, thus recasting the object of critique as a victim.

• By
  Rahel Aima
• Apr 17, 2018 1:02 pm

• Reviews

Mounir Fatmi

Tucked into a corner alcove of Mounir Fatmi’s exhibition “Inside the Fire Circle” was a short video in which the artist sits down at a typewriter, picks up a pair of hammers, and begins to bang on the…

• By
  Rahel Aima
• May 26, 2017 1:07 pm

• Features

Atlas Dubai: Art Without America

President Trump's seven-nation travel ban has had a chilling effect on Dubai's relations with the West, leaving the US's status as a “global” art center more questionable than ever.

• By
  Rahel Aima
• Mar 24, 2017 1:52 pm

• Features

Atlas Dubai: Consumed Culture

The work of many artists in Dubai, a locale hosting a hodgepodge of nationalities, suggests that the emirate is not a melting pot but a welter of distinct cultural parts.

• By
  Rahel Aima
• Dec 22, 2016 5:12 pm

• Reviews

GCC

At the 2013 World Government Summit, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates debuted a new hand gesture. He raised his hand as if in benediction, and extended his thumb, index, and middle finge…

• By
  Rahel Aima
• Dec 19, 2016 3:53 pm

• Features

Sky Mall: Sophia Al-Maria at the Whitney

September 8, 1978, was a day that shaped the Persian Gulf as we know it. A crescendo of religious demonstrations culminated in a massacre that has come to be known as Iran’s Black Friday. Guards opene…

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  Rahel Aima
• Sep 1, 2016 1:23 pm

• Features

Paradise Lost: Middle Eastern Art at the Guggenheim

“But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise” at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York is a worthwhile, if regrettably diverse show. Curated by Sara Raza, the third and final iteration of the…

• By
  Rahel Aima
• Jun 21, 2016 10:20 am