I wish I still had a copy of it, but we did a large interview with almost all the Made In Palestine artists just prior to the first American opeining in 2002.
I remember the result came out pretty good.
This was just prior to Jackson Allers being forced out of the station by Duane Bradley for airing pro-Palestinian news stories. Shortly after that "KPFT News" which did a lot of international news became "KPFT Local News" which didn't upset the Baptists quite so much. There were some last minute "large donations" to a recent fund drive that insiders speculate came from Dan Jones. Now Flashpoints is on al 11 PM at night.
God, I hate KPFT.
K
Paul DeRienzo <djpaulypauld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Wendy,
I'm glad you
noticed our guest on Let Them Talk tonight. It was a great show and Samia is
a great guest and friend of Let Them Talk. The show Made in Palestine is currently at a
gallery called The Bridge in Manhattan. A tape archive of tonite's program will be soon
available on my blog at pdr.autono.net..
Paul DeRIenzo
--- In NewPacifica@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, wendy <wendy@...> wrote:
>
> The Made in Palestine travelling exhibit is a project of Houston,
> Texas's http://www.stationmuseum.com and curated by James Harithas.
> They also took a video team to Palestine to document the journey of
> bringing the art to America, and KPFT News Director Jackson Allers of
> Houston was chosen to go with them in this capacity. It was much easier
> to display the art here in Houston than it was in the "progressive"
> cities. So interesting.
>
> wendy
>
> http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CEA8B997-8674-47F8-B950
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> *
> *
>
> **Palestine US exhibit stirs controversy***
> /By/ /Linda Isam Haddad in Los Angeles/
>
>
> Wednesday 20 April 2005, 6:05 Makka Time, 3:05 GMT *
>
> *The paintings and photographs depict Palestinian suffering*
>
> * Related:
> *
> Palestinian youths speak out with art
> <http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FE5BEF7F-2F1E-4BB1-B25E
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> ****
>
> **A unique art
exhibition showcasing the works of 23 Palestinian artists
> is facing uncertain times in the United States, with major museums
> refusing to play host. **
>
> *Chronicling the modern history of Palestinians since 1948, Made in
> Palestine had its first showing in the United States at the Station
> Museum in Houston, in May 2003.*
>
> *The exhibit displays the works of selected Palestinian artists from the
> West Bank and the Gaza Strip as well as those living in exile in
> countries such as Jordan, Syria and Germany.*
>
> *Currently on display in San Francisco, the opening attracted up to 1000
> people. But alongside the accolades, it has also drawn the ire of some
> politicians.*
>
> * *
>
> *As a result, most museums are fearful that hosting an exhibit that is
> pro-Palestinian could cost them their funding.*
>
> *"I thought I had
enough contacts to get this exhibit shown in museums
> across the nation, but I found out that even people who I considered
> close contacts said off-the-record they would lose their museum funding
> if they were to hold an exhibit that was pro-Palestinian," lamented
> James Harithas, curator of the Made in Palestine exhibition.*
>
> *Once the current show draws to a close on 21 April, organisers suspect
> it could be curtains for the exhibition.
>
> *Negative imagery**
>
> *"We are dealing with immense ignorance here and it's unfortunate that
> people have one image of Palestinians and automatically deny anything
> created by the Palestinian people," Harithas told Aljazeera.net. *
>
> * *
>
> *Funding for the art exhibit has
> been hard to come by*
>
> *Other art connoisseurs shared his dismay.
>
> "It is absolutely tragic the
exhibit is only showing in San Francisco
> for a short time," said Samia Halaby, a Palestinian artist and retired
> professor of Yale University's school of art.
>
> In an effort to raise funds for a future showing of the exhibit in New
> York, Halaby's al-Jisser (Bridge) organisation staged a slide show in
> November 2004 of the artwork displayed in the Made in Palestine art
> exhibit. *
>
> * *
>
> *"We are living in a country where anything that is critical of Israel
> and is pro-Palestinian is not accepted and this is very problematic,
> especially when we are dealing with art," Uda Walker, political
> education director of the Middle East Children's Alliance, told
> Aljazeera.net.
>
> *New York protest**
>
> * *
>
> *Two New York legislators and an assemblyman protested against the
> fundraiser in written statements,
calling the exhibit a promotion of
> terrorism and anti-American as well as anti-Israel. *
>
> * *
>
> *Ammo Box is meant to highlight
> Israel's military superiority*
>
> *Legislators George Oros and Jim Maisano said the fundraiser promoted
> offensive art that glorified terrorism.
>
> Assemblyman Ryan Karben called on county executives to cancel the
> fundraiser, because the artists' works promoted terrorism and violence. *
>
> * *
>
> *"There are also displays of violence that the artists claim are showing
> the proud Arab masses standing up to advanced ammunition of the Israelis
> using only stones. An ammunition box that would normally hold bullets
> for M-16 rifles is filled with rocks," Karben said in a written statement.*
>
> * *
>
> *"This is how ridiculous the situation is," Walker told Aljazeera.net,
>
explaining that Raji Cook's Ammo Box is a pun on weaponry, communicating
> that Palestinians only have stones and rocks as their weapons in this
> conflict, compared to Israel's array of weapons.*
>
> * *
>
> *"Yet some right-wing politicians will call the piece of art a
> glorification of violence," Walker said. *
>
> * **
> *Show goes on**
>
> *But undeterred organisers say the show must go on.
>
> Harithas, convinced about the Palestinian cause, said: "Palestinian art
> with all its passion needed to be displayed and viewed in the United
> States."
>
> Halaby, meanwhile, has helped to raise $25,000 in the hope that the
> exhibit debuts in New York. *
>
> *About $100,000 is required to rent space for the exhibit.*
>
>
>
> Paul DeRienzo wrote:
> > In Response To: Pacifica ED Addresses NFCB Conference
(Greg Guma (tlg))
> >
> > Join Paul DeRienzo & Miss Joan Marie Moossy on Let Them Talk.
> > Palestinian artist Samia
> > Halaby is our guest tonight Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 8 PM eastern
> > time on Manhattan
> > Neighborhood Network Channel 56 and on the Internet at mnn.org click
> > on channel 56.
> > Samia Halaby is currently exhibiting with other Palestinian artists in
> > a show titled Made in
> > Palestine a show of contemporary Palestinian art. She'll be discussing
> > the show and the
> > political and artistic situation in Palestine.
> >
> > See the exhibit at
> > THE BRIDGE GALLERY
> > 521 W. 26th St. 3rd Floor
> > New York City
> >
> > SHORT BIOGRAPHY
> >
> > July, 1996
> >
> > Samia A. Halaby
> >
> > Samia A. Halaby was born in
Jerusalem, Palestine, in 1936. In 1948,
> > Israeli aggression
> > forced her family's emigration to Beirut, and in 1951 the family
> > settled in Cincinnati. Thus,
> > her higher education took place in Midwestern Universities. After
> > graduate school, she
> > taught for eighteen years, the last ten of which were at the Yale
> > School of Art. In addition
> > to teaching, Halaby was often invited to lecture at other
> > universities. Her record includes
> > solo and group exhibitions in private and museum venues as well as the
> > performance of
> > her electronic art both here and abroad. Among the museums which own
> > her painting are
> > the Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Institute
> > Du Monde Arab in
> > Paris.
> >
> > Halaby makes analytically abstract paintings which
reflect the
> > cacophony of present reality.
> > This work first developed in isolation along complex geometric lines.
> > Afterwards,
> > international traditions such as Cubism and Constructivism as well as
> > such American
> > painters as Stuart Davis, Mark Tobey, and Jackson Pollock asserted
> > their influence. Themes
> > in her work narrate the motion and speed of our environment. They help
> > us to understand
> > the signals of pleasure and danger of a city or the complexities of
> > modern information.
> > For example one painting titled "One Yard Pas The Shingle Factory"
> > alludes to the jangle of
> > manufacture while it pays homage to Marcel Duchamp. In her recent
> > abstraction
> > inspiration is derived from soft natural form such as trees, the
> > effects of wind on groups,
> > or the
motion of large crowds of people. In "Green Flamenco" once can
> > sense perhaps a
> > crowd, or wind rustling tree leaves, or possibly things floating on
> > the surface of a lake in
> > the forest.
> >
> > Halaby works with oil on canvas as much as with drawing media on
> > paper. As a colorist,
> > she still uses oil when she seeks precision in color relationships,
> > but often utilizes acrylics
> > in her assemblage as it permits a more impulsive attitude and less
> > rigorous demands on
> > cutting and stitching canvas after it has been painted.
> >
> > Due to her persuasion that art must utilize the most advanced
> > technologies available, she
> > began exploring digital and electronic media in the mid 80's after
> > years of dreaming of it.
> > In the end, she wrote a program which she uses to do
live performance
> > of abstract
> > paintings in collaboration with musicians. Called Kinetic Painting,
> > this program transforms
> > the computer's keyboard into a painting piano creating shapes that
> > expand, break, have
> > variable speed, and rhythm.
> >
> > Samia Halaby has written many essays on art and occasionally writes
> > about her own work.
> > After interviewing 46 Palestinian artists, she published a book titled
> > "Liberation Art of
> > Palestine.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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