Hadani Ditmars

6 days ago | wallpaper.com | Hadani Ditmars

Vancouver-based architect Daniel Evan White was never a follower of style or trend. He marched to his own inner design drum, producing dozens of exquisitely executed houses, and a handful of public projects, largely confined to coastal British Columbia. 'In a way, Dan was a post-postmodernist,' says long-time client Maureen Lunn, who has had two residences designed by White.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Hadani Ditmars

A new exhibition at Bard College’s Hessel Museum of Art in New York State offers a unique perspective on Iraq’s post-colonial art. All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group, organised by the specialists Nada Shabout and Tiffany Floyd together with the museum’s chief curator, Lauren Cornell, unites 64 works of painting, sculpture and drawings by 30 artists including Dia al-Azzawi and Mohammed Ghani Hikmat.

1 week ago | theartnewspaper.com | Hadani Ditmars

The first purpose-built art museum at Simon Fraser University (SFU) near Vancouver will open on 20 September with an inaugural exhibition titled Edge Effects. The show encapsulates both the new museum’s curatorial vision as well as architect Arthur Erickson’s original inter-disciplinary ethos for the SFU campus on Burnaby Mountain, half an hour's drive from downtown Vancouver, designed in 1963 with his then-partner Geoffrey Massey.

1 week ago | anglicanjournal.com | Hadani Ditmars

Editor’s note: The following article is based on a reflection published this spring on the website of Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver. The author has updated it in light of more recent events in the Holy Land. “What you are seeking is seeking you.”– RumiSometimes the distance, as Leonard Cohen wrote, “between the TV news and your tiny pain”  can be a faraway/so close experience.

2 weeks ago | newarab.com | Hadani Ditmars

At a time when the genocide in Gaza makes international law seem like a quaint 20th-century idea, long-time Israeli peace activist Jeff Halper and his Palestinian counterpart, Issa Amro, have been nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. The prize will be awarded on 10 October in Oslo, and like international law, the Peace Prize almost seems like something from a bygone era, yet the timeliness of the nomination imbues it with a powerful new meaning.