The Age of Anxiety is artPost21’s editorial platform. Here, we present artist spotlights, curated online film programmes, interviews with subjects specialists, alongside teasers and trailers, book excerpts, and much more.
Omar Kholeif’s Next Big Adventure
Next week, Dr. Omar Kholeif, director of collections and senior curator at Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) and a mainstay of the UAE’s cultural scene will be packing up their bags as a co-director of SAF to become one of the few persons from Egypt or Sudan to become a professor at a major British art school—a country, which although Kholeif’s home, has also been historically ambivalent regarding its complicity in colonial art history. Here Robert Ross, aP21 correspondent sits down for a quick fire interview.
Excerpt: Internet_Art – Cyborgs
Read an excerpt from the best-selling book, Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs by Omar Kholeif. Here, in our final instalment, artPost21 readers have been invited to select their favorite 1000-word excerpts from the book. Read on for an insight into cyborgs and the path-breaking work of artist, Lynn Hershman-Leeson.
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