Rio De Janeiro’s cultural center, Casa Daros, will close. [Artforum] Artist Walid Raad has become the third member of Gulf Labor to be refused entry into the United Arab Emirates. [Hyperallergi…
A Dubai-based scholar and philanthropist thinks beyond national borders
"Miraculous Beginnings," the title of Lebanese artist Walid Raad's current solo show at the Whitechapel Gallery, East London, takes a Biblical tack while alluding to his country's troublesome first ye…
Lebanese artist Walid Raad (b. 1967), who has in the past used the pseudonym The Atlas Group, mixes mediums and combines facts with fabrication in work that often addresses Lebanon’s civil wars and pr…