Stephen Shore | From Galilee to the Negev | Hostage | Phaidon
2014 The question to ask of pictures from the stand point of poetics is not just what they mean or do but what they want – what claim they make upon...
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Archaeology of the Future | Steve Sabella | Maretti Editore
2014 We need pictures to create history, especially in the age of photography and cinema, but we also need imagination to re-see these images, and thus, to re-think history Georges...
Colonization of the Imagination | Steve Sabella | Contemporary Practices Art Journal
2011 Introduction The following essay was written few years ago at a time when there was a sense of total frustration and defeat in the Arab World. It seemed back...
Unlocking Visual Codes | Steve Sabella
2015 Art talk given during Sabella's April 2015 Palestine tour. ... This work explores the relationship between two realities––one being Israeli colonization and the other being the Pal- estinian Right...
'Valued' in the 'West', Sold in the 'East' | Steve Sabella | Contemporary Practices
Volume V, 2009 In addition to copyrights, artists also benefit from moral rights which derive from the international intellectual property conventions (Berne Convention for the Protection of Literacy and Artistic...
The Business of Looking | Steve Sabella | Contemporary Practices
Volume IX, 2011 Museum Rehabilitation “If it does not sell, it is not art”1 . As an artist, this statement made me realize that there are two sorts of value...
Reconsidering the Value of Palestinian Art & Its Journey into the Art Market | Steve Sabella | Contemporary Practices
Volume VII, 2010 & VIII, 2011 ABSTRACT The Israeli occupation and the absence of political stability have enticed Palestinian artists to look beyond Palestine to seek critical and economical recognition....
Is The United Arab Emirates Constructing its Art History? The Mechanisms that Confer Value to Art | Steve Sabella | Contemporary Practices Art Journal
2008 As Iain Robertson indicates, when art is created, a distribution system forms around it. Intriguingly, he sees the international art market as the sole mechanism conferring value to art...