Youssef Chebbi’s Ashkal

By Farah Abdessamad

JUNE 2023 | Film

Ashkal won the highest award at the Pan-African Fespaco Film Festival. It premiered at the 2022 Cannes festival Directors’ Fortnight. Screened at MoMA’s New Directors festival last April, it will be distributed in US cinemas this summer.

Rithy Panh’s Everything Will Be Ok and Irradiés

By Farah Abdessamad

OCT 2022 | Film

The latest two films of Cambodia-born filmmaker Rithy Panh, Everything Will Be OK (2022) and Irradiés (2020), are premiering in North America at MoMA, as part of the first-ever retrospective of his 30-year-long career.

Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time

By Rebecca Schiffman

MAY 2023 | ArtSeen

In the eyes of the profound American artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986), a single artwork can’t always fully express the complexity of its subject: sometimes it takes a few tries. Up now at MoMA is a wonderful expansion of that idea in Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time, featuring more than 120 works on paper spanning five decades of the pioneering artist's career.

Discovering Duchamp through the “Fourth Dimension” in 1971

By Linda Dalrymple Henderson

OCT 2022 | Critics Page

In 1970 the Stedelijk Museum’s first major Kazimir Malevich exhibition had revealed his use of “Fourth Dimension” in his titles. And, most importantly, there was a clue in the entry for Duchamp’s 1920 Rotary Glass Plates in the 1968 catalog of the MOMA exhibition The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age.