The 54th Venice Biennale – the oldest in the world – opened on 4 July with the title "ILLUMInations". Whereas the model of the modern nation state has been rejected as ancien regime by both radical philosophers and transnational market economies, (...)
As I stand in the square, as I walk in the tense streets of downtown Cairo, as I stare at the worn-out and silent faces on the metro, I am haunted by the spectre of a post-revolutionary culture industry and knowledge economy in Egypt. As the (...)
Since the “Why Not?” show in February-March of this year, it has almost become a convention to see exhibitions at the Palace of Arts with a question in their titles. But the 12th Cairo Biennale, the bulk of which is housed at the Palace of Arts, (...)