Visual Arts

ArteEast curates visual arts exhibitions and seminars as well as produces catalogs dealing with the production of art in the Middle East and its Diaspora. We aim to present American audiences with a different perspective of Middle East cultures through the arts, therefore setting the stage for an enlivened intellectual and intercultural dialogue.



 

Upcoming Events

Tarjama/Translation

 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
August 14 - October 3, 2010

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art hosts ArteEast's major visual arts exhibition. Tarjama/Translation  maps an influential subset of recent work from the Middle East and Central Asia and its diasporas as a complex and dynamic translational undertaking. Rather than highlighting the region as its main thematic or providing a panoramic, and thus fleeting, exposure to “Middle Eastern art,” Tarjama/Translation focuses on the common yet complex theme of cultural, artistic and critical translation.