November 2016
My review, for Canvas, of the Yinchuan Biennale in China, brought to you by the masterminds behind the Kochi Muziris Biennale.
September 2016
I traveled to Tehran to spend some time with artist Shahpour Pouyan to discuss power, failure, towers and war. Very proud that this made it into ArtAsiaPacific‘s 100th issue.
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July 2016
My review for ArtReview Asia of Tarek Abou el-Fetouh’s show The Time is Out of Joint at Sharjah Art Foundation.
My review of Egyptian artist Huda Lutfi’s show “Magnetic Bodies: Imaging the Urban” at Dubai’s The Third Line gallery.
May 2016
As Dubai-based Canvas magazine takes on a new editor and a new direction, I settled in to write a feature on Syrian-American artist Diana al-Hadid’s nearly two-decade-long practice, spring boarding off her show in March 2016 at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery.
I may be the first writer ever to compare a collector to shawarma…favourably! My profile of collector/patron Dana Farouk for ArtAsiaPacific May/June 2016 issue is all about nourishing conviviality and galvanising forces.
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March 2016
My review for ArtReview Asia of Beirut-based curator Amanda Abi Khalil’s show “White Cube…Literally” at Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde in Dubai
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September 2015
My feature on Turkish princess-painter Fahrelnissa Zeid in the Sept/Oct issue of ArtAsiaPacific. Zeid was generously featured in Sharjah Bienial 12 and will be the topic of a conference at the Istanbul Biennial starting Sept 2015.
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The final essay (and video) in my UAE Ecosystem series, which has spanned three issues of ArtAsiaPacific. This ultimate gathering is with UAE-based collectors.
My review of Hassan Sharif’s show Images at Dubai’s Isabelle van den Eynde gallery for ArtAsiaPacific.
May 2015
My review for FlashArt International of Slavs and Tatars’ new cycle of work, Mirrors for Princes, at the NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery.
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ArtReview Asia asked me to review Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck’s entanglements in his Dubai show at Green Art Gallery.
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The first in my series of three essays on the UAE Arts Ecosystem for ArtAsiaPacific. First up, the artists. Includes videoed excerpts from our conversations.
I profiled Sheikha Hoor bint Sultan al-Qasimi as she geared up for her gig as curator of the UAE National Pavillion at the 56th Venice Biennale for ArtAsiaPacifc.
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My review of Iranian artist Siah Armajani’s Tomb Series in New York at Alexandre Gray in ArtAisaPacific.
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March 2015
My profile on Italian-Lebanese Venezuela-based artist Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck for Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia.
My feature on Palestinian artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme for ArtAsiaPacific, coinciding with the reveal of their third and final installation in the Incidental Insurgents series at Sharjah Biennial 12.
November 2014
My essay for Art Review‘s yearly Power Issue. The breif: ponder why Qatar’s Sheikha Mayassa tumbled from her 2013 number 1 spot.
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Another essay, this time for ArtAsiaPacific, on the Louvre Abu Dhabi and how it is crafting its narrative.
Once again for ArtAsiaPacific, a review of the Slavs and Tatars show Language Arts at Dubai’s The Third Line.
May 2014
My profile of the amazing Fayçal Baghriche for Canvas.
My feature for ArtAsiaPacific on Saloua Raouda Choucair, a nearly forgotten Lebanese modernist.
I convinced Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia to let me investigate A Guest without a Host is a Ghost: the Kadist Foundation’s collaboration with non-profit space Beirut in Cairo.
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March 2014
My low-down on the Dubai arts ecosystem for ArtAsiaPacific.
My essay on the elusive collective GCC.
February 2014
Some more work for Artforum: my review of Ralf Ziervogel and Rui Chafes’ Black Rainbow show at Dubai’s Carbon 12 gallery
January 2014
New year, new publication: I started contributing to the venerable Artforum, with the first of (hopefully) many critics picks to follow. This is on Asad Faulwell’s Bed of Broken Mirrors show at Dubai’s Lawrie Shabibi.
December 2013
Nafas Magazine at the Universes-in-Universe site asked me to review the Emirati Expressions: Realised show in Abu Dhabi.
November 2013
I covered Abu Dhabi Art for Artinfo.com.
Flash Art International asked me to review Jung Lee’s solo show at Dubai’s Green Art Gallery
My profile of Lebanese/Egyptian artist Lara Baladi for Brownbook‘s “Coffee” issue
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Inspired by Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh and Rozenne Quéré’s Possible and Imaginary Lives, I considered the fictional archive in an essay for ArtAsiaPacific
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My take on Larissa Sansour’s show Science Faction at Dubai’s Lawrie Shabibi gallery
Dubai-based non-profit Tashkeel asked me to write a catalogue essay for resident artist Amartey Golding’s solo show
(pdf forthcoming)
September 2013
I reminisced about Hassan Sharif’s 2011 Experiments and Objects show in Abu Dhabi for ArtAsiaPacific‘s 20×20 series
I visited Dubai’s Third Line gallery and reviewed Rana Begum’s N° 10 show for ArtAsiaPacific
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I travelled to Singapore to see the Terms and Conditions show at the Singapore Art Museumfor Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia
(pdf forthcoming)
July 2013
My take on Ahlam Shibli’s controversial show Phantom Home at Paris’ Jeu de Paume for ArtAsiaPacific blog:
My profile of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky in Brownbook, the Mediterrannean issue:
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I strolled through the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Birth of A Museum showfor Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia
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I wrapped up Sharjah Biennial 11 for Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia:
(pdf forthcoming)
May 2013
My review of Michael Rakowitz’s Dar al Sulh for ArtAsiaPacific blog
April 2013
I visited Beirut (space) in Cairo (city) to write this Magic of the State review for Harper’s Bazaar Art Arabia
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March 2013
I spent a chunk of March as the “guest” blogger for SIKKA 2013, the non-commercial fair held in the shadow of Art Dubai
February 2013
Sinking my teeth into the meaty queston of street art and the need for public art in the UAE, for The National
January 2013
My double interview with Emirati artists Ebtisam Abdul Aziz and Mohammed Kazem, on questions of education, generations and the future of art from the UAE, for The National
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