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		<title>REMOTE REPERCUSSIONS WAFAA BILA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Being in a state of vulnerability is when you truly let out your grief,” he says. “Lately it’s hit me more and more how these atrocities have shattered my family. Committing myself to a performance that makes me physically and emotionally vulnerable helps lower barriers. It brings me closer to reality and allows me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Amiri Baraka</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is some great advise from Amiri Baraka for artists &#8211; in particular artists who are interested in making socially engaged work.
This interview is pulled from A Gathering of the Tribes Issue # 13, 2011.  Amiri Baraka is interviewed by Brian Boyles at Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana.
TRIBES
That leads me to my first question, actually.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persian Poetry Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister and I started a new project dedicated to Persian poetry written by women poets in the early Islamic period in Persia. We are producing a handmade artist book honoring the voices of Rabia Balki (early 900′s) and Zebun Nissa (1637-1701).
The Persian culture included and includes Iranians, Afghans, Tajiks,  Sunnis, Shittes, Parsis, Ismailis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Keyholder Residency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 17:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been awarded the Keyholder Residency at The Lower East Side Printshop.  With access to The Printshop, I hope to continue building my work on the politics of representation.
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		<title>Vija Celmins at McKee Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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McKee Gallery presents new work by Vija Celmins.
In an interview with PBS’ Art 21 Celmins explains,
when I picked those set of rocks in New Mexico, it never even occurred to me&#8230; I had them in the back of the car and I put them out on the table and I just had this instinctive desire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Was Oil Painting Invented?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been taught in my art history classes that oil painting originated in Europe in the 15th Century.
My sister, who recently came back from Afghanistan, told me that she saw oil paintings in the caves behind the destroyed Buddhas in Bamiyan.
I looked this up and it seems to be true :::
Samples from paintings, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barakat at Stux Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stux Gallery presents Barakat.  Barakat is an Arabic word, meaning a gift or an offering.  Nine artists were invited from the Middle East and Africa to make a cultural offering.
A few artists spoke to me.  Sara Rahbar&#8217;s photographs are compelling.  I did not need a back story or even to know that she is from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedish partners at David Zwirner</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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David Zwirner gallery presents Who is sleeping on my pillow, new works by Swedish partners Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordström.  Married for 24 years, they are exhibiting together for the first time with concurrent solo shows in opposite rooms of the gallery with collaborations in the Middle Gallery.
Jockum Nordström’s works on paper are crude and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kara Walker Prints at Sikkema Jenkins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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Sikkema Jenkins gallery is modestly presenting An Unpeopled Land in Uncharted Waters, new prints from Kara Walker in the West Gallery.  
As we enter the West Gallery we see a suite of six etchings in different sizes done in typical Kara Walker style.  The compositions are stark, printed in black ink of white paper.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kiki Smith at Brooklyn Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Kiki Smith’s Sojourn is on exhibit at Brooklyn Museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art until September 12, 2010.
Kiki Smith communicates in her own language.  She uses paper, pencil, glue, glass, and glitter.  And she patches the pieces together, she sprinkles on the glitter on and she shapes her rounded forms with paper mache.  [...]]]></description>
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