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)
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
I am currently 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.
College Arts Association, 2022, Chicago
I recently presented on the work of Sadequain Naqvi at the annual CCA conference, 2022. “Graphic Intimacies: Sadequain Naqvi and the Artist’s Book (1966-1971)” will be held as part of the Association of Print Scholars’ panel, “The Interstices of Print” on Friday, February 18, 2022 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Gemma Sharpe 