Nirmala Devi

Jan 6, 2025 | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |Jenny Wu |J.J. Charlesworth

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Jeddah’s Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 to an exhibition of Brazilian modernism Islamic Arts Biennale 2025: And all that is in between Western Hajj Terminal, King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, 25 January–25 May Jeddah’s Islamic Arts Biennale returns for its second edition this month with 31 international participating artists and artist groups (whose works will be shown alongside a showcase of historical objects...

Nov 28, 2024 | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi

Sumana Roy’s book is a love letter to places not quite on the mapReminiscing about her schooldays in provincial India, writer and poet Sumana Roy recalls that her teachers would recommend to their charges the wisdom of writers such as Tennyson, Wordsworth, Nissim Ezekiel and Ruskin Bond as guides to life. That didn’t really work. ‘In the end it was literature by old men,’ she writes. What would they know about the things that mattered to a youth dreaming of being a citizen of the world?

Nov 22, 2024 | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |Yasmin Zaher. Footnote

The author’s striking debut novel defies our expectations of what it means to be Palestinian‘Women in my family placed a lot of importance on being clean, perhaps because there was little else they could control in their lives.’ So reasons the narrator of Yasmin Zaher’s striking debut novel, an orphaned Palestinian living in New York and teaching in a school for deprived boys. Boys she wants to ‘fix’. She herself is not deprived; she’s wealthy.

Jul 26, 2024 | artreview.com | Séverine Vidal |Nirmala Devi |Kim Consigny

A new graphic biography of the revolutionary author suggests that we shouldn’t separate the writer from the writing Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin de Francueil is someone about whom you’ve most likely never heard. Her pseudonym, George Sand, is another case altogether. Assuming you’re into bestselling nineteenth-century European literature. Or women who fought the social conventions of gender.

Jul 1, 2024 | artreview.com | Yuwen Jiang |JJ Charlesworth |Nirmala Devi

From Les Rencontres d’Arles to Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, our editors on what they’re looking forward to this month Les Rencontres d’Arles 2024: Beneath the Surface Various Venues, 1 July–29 Sep Those heading to the annual photography festival Les Rencontres d’Arles will find a programme of 31 exhibitions that somehow all fit within this year’s theme Beneath the Surface – which focuses on photographic narratives that ‘lead to divergent, multiple paths, all emanating from the faults in a...