Nirmala Devi

3 weeks ago | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |J.J. Charlesworth |Oliver Basciano

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from Wolfgang Tillmans and Momentum 13 to Marina Tabassum’s Serpentine PavilionMarina Tabassum: A Capsule in TimeSerpentine Pavilion, London, 6 June–26 OctoberNormally, like a fly that a small child has stripped of its wings, when architecture becomes part of the content of a museum or gallery it does so to die.

1 month ago | artreview.com | Nirmala Devi |Jenny Wu |Louise Benson

Our editors on the exhibitions they’re looking forward to this month, from the Venice Architecture Biennale to Gallery Weekends in Berlin and Beijing19th Venice Biennale of Architecture: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial.

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.