The art: Christopher Sims, Makkah, 12793km, Camp Delta, 2006. From the series “Guantanamo Bay,” shot in 2006 and 2010.
The news: “Guantanamo After Bin Laden,” by David Cole for the New York Review of Books blog, NYRblog.
The source: Civilian Art Projects, Washington, DC. To see more images from the series, click here. For more on Sims’ project (and for more images), see his website here. Highly recommended.
The art: Shahzia Sikander, Entangled from the portfolio No Parking Anytime, 2001.
The news: “The Double Game: The unintended consequences of American funding in Pakistan,” by Lawrence Wright in The New Yorker and “Our Strange Dance with Pakistan,” by Elizabeth Rubin in The New York Review of Books’ blog, NYRblog.
The source: Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Print portfolio produced by Crown Point Press.
The art: Raffael Rheinsberg, Hand and Foot, 1980. The shoes in Rheinsberg’s installation belonged to laborers who were forced to work during World War II.
The news: “Tomorrow to Tahrir Again,” by Yasmine El Rashidi in the New York Review of Books’ blog. I was struck by the casualness of the writer’s references to the brutality of the Mubarak security forces. It reminded me that while much of the American-based news coverage of events in Egypt is about whether Mubarak stays or goes, that what happens in Egypt is less about him and is more about the individuals in Tahrir Square.
The source: Collection Neues Museum - Staatliches Museum fur Kunst und Design in Nurnberg. On loan from the City of Nuremberg.
