Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
Art21 Blog - January 28th, 2012
Ganzeer, "Mask of Freedom" sticker. Why does art matter? It’s a broad, reductive question – but one that has resounded with an almost vicious persistence since I moved back to Cairo, Egypt, last September. Since the first days of the massive uprisings that began in this country exactly a year ago, there was an immediate turn to the visual to explain, celebrate, uphold, lead, or confound these sweeping social and political changes. Journalists, scholars, and curators set their... Continue Reading
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