“Play Me: Conversations with Amin Gulgee” now out in Amin Gulgee: No Man’s Land, (2025: Skira)
My essay on Amin Gulgee’s practice in its art historical context is now out in the monograph No Man’s Land published by Skira in 2025 and edited by John McCarry.
National Assemblages: Syed Sadequain’s illustrations of Camus (Grinnell College)
Presentation at Grinnell College on Sadequain Naqvi’s illustrations of Camus’ L’Etranger in the context of the Algerian war of independence and his subsequent illustrated books of poetry. By invitation of the Departments of French and Arabic, Art History, and the Grinnell College Museum of Art.
Abstract States: Modernism in Lebannon, Syria, and Turkey (ARTMargins (2024) 13, Issue 1)
Book review of Anneka Lenssen’s, Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (2020), Zeina Maasri’s, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties (2020) and Sarah-Neel Smith’s, Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey, (2022).
Book review of Anneka Lenssen’s, Beautiful Agitation: Modern Painting and Politics in Syria (2020), Zeina Maasri’s, Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties (2020) and Sarah-Neel Smith’s, Metrics of Modernity: Art and Development in Postwar Turkey, (2022)
My article on Iqbal Geoffrey’s attempts to sue MoMA in New York for human rights discrimination in 1971 is now out in Art History. If you do not have institutional access, the full article is available on Academia.edu.
Getty/Asia Art Archive: Connecting Histories, 2021-22
In 2022 I was a participant in the Getty/Asia Art Archive’s Connecting Histories program on “Art Schools in Asia,” where my work focuses on the development of printmaking at the National College of Arts in Lahore during the 1980s.
A concluding conference is taking place online in June 2022.
Gemma Sharpe 