Geronimo Cristobal

Tag: Politics

  • Poems in the shape of paintings

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    With a history of cultural iconoclasm, the Arab region has become a fertile ground for abstract art. Yet Arab artists remain marginal in the global conversation of modern abstraction. An ambitious project initiated by the Barjeel Art Foundation seeks to issue a long overdue corrective. Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, slated to…

  • Maria Ressa temporarily arrested, again

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    Journalist Maria Ressa reports critically on the drug war of President Rodrigo Duterte. The authorities accuse her of slander as specified. The government-critical Filipino journalist Maria Ressa has been temporarily arrested six weeks after her release. “I’m being treated like a criminal, even though my only crime is to be an independent journalist,” Ressa told…

  • Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Images (2003; French title Le destin des images)

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    Jacques Rancière’s The Politics of Images (2003; French title Le destin des images) asks a fundamental question: who decides what can be seen and what can be said in art? For Rancière, art is always shaped by a “regime” — a system of rules that organizes the relationship between the visible and the speakable. This…