I have an experiment I’d like you to try the next time you encounter a self-proclaimed cinephile in the wild. The kind of cinephile with over 1000 films logged on Letterboxd, with an extensive collection of Criterion Blu-Rays on their living room shelf, who prides themselves on having seen the entire filmographies of even the […]
When COVID hit in early 2020, Algeria was witnessing weekly protests all over the country. The Hirak, the largest popular uprising in decades, started a year earlier. Similar to the other Arab Spring movements that started in 2011, the demonstrations succeeded in creating political pressure that toppled former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in April, 2019, and […]
The global design circle loves a new market. It loves growth metrics, new collectors, fresh money. What it struggles with is the idea that those markets, and those people, might also produce art, authorship, and direction. For years, the Gulf has been framed as a destination for acquisition rather than articulation. Fairs land. Objects sell. […]
