Moving forward while celebrating Palestinian art's past

http://electronicintifada.net/content/moving-forward-while-celebrating-palestinian-arts-past/16436
Date Written:  2016-04-25
Publisher:  Electronic Intifada
Year Published:  2016
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX19334

Unlike Other Springs, on display at the Birzeit University Museum in the occupied West Bank through the end of June, pulls off the heavy feat of looking back while moving forward. Conceived as both a celebration and retrospective, the exhibition is guest curated by the museum's formidable founder, the renowned artist Vera Tamari, who oversaw its transformation from the Ethnographic and Art Museum at Birzeit University into the center of contemporary Palestinian and international art that it is today.