Summer 2014
Fiona McGovern
By Fiona McGovern Summer 2014 | ArteZine Her long-term friend and collaborator Jutta Koether, once wrote that artist and musician Kim Gordon is “if at all, a fragile super special chick (based on a decision), who plays bass, pushes for improvisation, one who knows and loves the history of the chicks in music and by that…
Brian William Rogers
By Brian William Rogers Summer 2014, 2016 | ArteZine The zine has always had an air of conspiracy theory about it: it’s not difficult to imagine the disarticulated contents of zines– obsessive, selective, forensic snapshots of cultural second-gunmen — redistributed as the autodidact’s bedroom diagram, found typically either in the apartments of detectives or of serial…
Spring 2014
Anita Toutikian
By Anita Toutikian Spring 2014 | ArteZine Perceptual blindness is a psychological condition, meaning, if the brain cannot recognize, acknowledge or process something, the eye cannot see it. The Lebanese were perceptually blind about the imminent “Civil War”, they never called it war, they called it “Al-ahdath or الاحداث” meaning “The events” or “the incidents”. The…
Kristine Khouri
By Kristine Khouri Spring 2014 | Gallery The Sultan Gallery is an art gallery initiated by brother and sister duo, Ghazi and Najat Sultan, who opened the gallery in 1969 in Kuwait City, and which closed with the Iraqi invasion in 1990. With a mission to promote and exhibit “modern young Arab artists,” the gallery was…
Hrayr Eulmessekian
By Hrayr Eulmessekian Spring 2014 | ArteZine Armenians have had a complex relationship with the Arab world, especially in Lebanon. Remnants of Aghed the Catastrophe of 1895-1923 [i], meandered there in waves, reconstituting their lost cities over the new geography of a country yet to be born. The more affluent settled in the francophone center of Beirut,…
Ara Azad
By Ara Azad Spring 2014 | ArteZine The Lebanese witnessed 15 years of civil war and subsequent decades of random cruelty and political violence. During the lengthy years of the country’s reconstruction no effort was spared to conceal the physical traces of the war, yet its survivors were left uncared for, asked to rise from the…
Greta Torossian
By Greta Torossian Spring 2014 | ArteZine A white square ceramic tiled wall behind a big heavy machine juicing carrots and my impatient need to have that juice: this is the only vivid memory I have from Beirut’s city center before the civil war erupted in 1975. At that time, I was 6 years old. During…
By Hrayr Eulmessekian Spring 2014 | ArteZine What comes after the bourgeois entitlement to closure? Would it be more proper to ask, what becomes of the bourgeoisie when it finally gains that sense of closure? We are left muted to negotiate safe passage at checkpoints. In time and distance, our narratives acquire mythical proportions. Meanwhile, residues…
Winter 2013
Barrak Alzaid
By Barrak Alzaid, Editor Winter 2013 | ArteZine This edition of the ArteZine explores connections between kinship structures and art history to reveal methodologies for unearthing narratives erased by market forces and geopolitics. Each essay is anchored in a shifting sense of place that reflects the distances between contributor and site of exploration. The contributions in this issue…
By ArteEast Winter 2013 | ArteZine Monira: Okay, so there’s this painting of yours that really affected me when I was growing up called “Flying Desire,” I think you too, Fatima? Fatima: Yes, for sure. It was so scary but captivating. Monira: I felt in awe when I saw it. I was always looking at it. Fatima: Also because of…
