Arts, Music & Culture
Visual Art
Here you will find links to EI's arts reviews, arts news, and external links for Palestinian artists and international artists whose work concerns issues regarding Palestine. Featured are artists who work in traditional ceramics to those who create mutlimedia work with an often subversive political commentary. Please note that there is a separate BY TOPIC listing for films, music, literature, theater, and arts organizations. (Added 23 October 2003)

EI's reviews and features
  • Photostory: Made in Palestine Exhibit opens to packed crowds in New York, Nigel Parry (17 March 2006)
  • Well-known UK graffiti artist Banksy hacks the Wall, Nigel Parry (2 September 2005)
  • The Art of War, Eoin Murray (13 January 2005)
  • Review: "Made in Palestine" exhibit, Rob Eshelman (12 April 2005)
  • All Boxed In: Interview with Palestinian-American artist Rajie Cook, Maureen Clare Murphy (12 January 2005)
  • Artist John Keane revisits Palestine's obliterated past and present by Nina Malmsten (4 March 2004)
  • Palestinian painter portrays raw emotions of Palestinians who long to go home, Courtney C. Radsch reviews Zahi Khamis' exhibition for The Daily Star (18 February 2004)
  • Review: Poster art of the Israelii-Palestinian conflict, by Maureen Clare Murphy (16 January 2004)
  • Art review: Mind, Body and Soul of Palestine - A Photo Journal Exhibit by Maureen Clare Murphy (9 October 2003)
  • People like us: a review of Portraits of Israelis and Palestinians: For my parents, Maureen Clare Murphy reviews Seth Tobocman's collection of portraits (21 July 2003)

    Arts news
  • In remembrance: Ismail Shammout, 1931-2006, Samia Halaby (5 July 2006)
  • First Museum-quality Exhibition of Contemporary Palestinian Art to open in New York City on March 14th, 2006, Made in Palestine (20 February 2006)
  • "Made in Palestine" art exhibition to open in New York City, Al-Jisser (14 February 2006)
  • Three Cities Against the Wall: Ramallah, Tel Aviv, New York, Three Cities Against the Wall (28 October 2005)
  • Debut US tour of "Made in Palestine" exhibition, Justice in Palestine Coalition (7 March 2005)
  • A cultural protest against the wall International Center of Bethlehem press release (19 November 2004)
  • Culture and dissent: Khalil Sakakini Center looks towards creative resistance, Am Johal (12 October 2004)
  • Liberation art of Palestine, Zachary Wales (21 September 2004)
  • Breaking the Silence: Occupation soldiers give visual and written accounts of their experience in Hebron, Press Release (16 July 2004)
  • Culture for All - Al-Ahram Weekly's Jaideep Mukerji reports on Ramallah's new Cultural Palace (6 July 2004)
  • Architecture event: One Land, Two Systems - Beyond the division lines in Israeli spatial planning, One Land Two Systems (25 May 2004)
  • Pictures of war: Conflicts and dates may change, but the imagery and inhumanity stay the same, Maureen Clare Murphy (20 May 2004)
  • Al-Haq: World must stop destruction of cultural herigate in OPT, Al-Haq (13 May 2004)
  • Exhibit in Amman conveys horros of Israel's separation wall, by Rana Sabbagh-Gargour for The Daily Star (16 February 2004)
  • A. M. Qattan Foundation announces 2004 Culture and Science Programme, press release, (24 December 2003)
  • Palestine's neglected treasure trove, report, Al Jazeera (22 December 2003)
  • Palestinian museum exhibition "lost" by American Airport Security, press release, Palestinian Costume Archive (4 December 2003)
  • JCSER: Israeli Department of Antiquities hides outcome of archaeological excavations, report, JCSER (21 September 2003)
  • Video Petition Project on Exhibit at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art, from Artist Emergency Response press releases (18 January 2003)
  • Chicago: Palestine-Ireland Art Exhibit Opens, press release from Gallery 400 (20 November 2002)

    Artists
  • Naji al-Ali: The timeless conscience of Palestine, Arjan El Fassed (22 July 2004)
  • Palestine Art features an extensive index of Palestinian artists
  • Tanam Al-Akhal and Ismail Shammout- the artist couple's website
  • Andrew Courtney- his website includes his photographic documentary of African Palestinians
  • Rajie Cook - Palestinian-American artist
  • Aissa Deebi - the installation artist's website
  • Samia Halaby - Mutlimeda artist
  • Nasr Eleyan - Palestinian painter
  • Emily Jacir - the photographer and installation artist's website
  • Zahi Khamis - Palestinian painter
  • Sari Khoury - The late Jerusalem-born, American-educated painter
  • Richard Mosse - Irish artist who participated in an international artists' workshop with the Palestinian Ministry of Culture in 2005
  • Luke Powell - The photographer's website includes landscape images of Palestine
  • Jacqueline Salloum- Multimedia artist/filmmaker
  • Steve Sabella - Jerusalem-based photographer
  • Mahmoud Taha - Palestinian ceramic artist


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