Brainard Carey interviews Professor Omar Kholeif on Yale Radio: Listen

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Omar Kholeif is an artist, author, curator, cultural historian and professor of global art theory and practice at the Glasgow School of Art and Program Leader of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice with the University of Glasgow.

Here they discuss the publishing imprint imagine/otherwise co-developed by artPost21 and Sternberg Press, and unfold the inner making of their latest two ventures on the artists, Huguette Caland and Simone Fattal, respectively.

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Omar Kholeif operates under numerous guises, including as the avatar of Doctor O—The World’s Leading Pop Physician (TM).

Born in Cairo, Egypt, they were raised in Glasgow, Scotland, Los Angeles, CA, and elsewhere. An author of over two dozen volumes on art, a curator of over 100 exhibitions, they are the co-founding director of artPost21, a not-for-profit publishing and broadcast platform for artists and their dreamwork.

Their recent books include, Nil Yalter: Circular Tension (2024), Otobong Nkanga: Stitched Dreams (2024) and Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs (2023).