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Bidoun Library in Beirut!

Bidoun Library & Project Space @ 98 Weeks
April 17 – May 15, 2010
98 Weeks Project Space, Ground Floor, Chalhoub Building, Off Nahr Street, Facing Spoiler Center, Before Jisr Hadid, Mar Mikhael

Opening: Saturday April 17, 5pm, with readings by Bidoun contributing editors and writers Shumon Basar and Wael Lazkani and a conversation with the comics’ collective Samandal.

Debate: Saturday May 8, 5pm, with a panel including Abboudi Abou Jaoude of Al-Furat Publishers.

This iteration of the library coincides with the launch of 98 Weeks’ new research project on avant-garde journals and popular magazines stemming from moments of modernity in the Arab world. 98 Weeks’ collection of publications will be on permanent display at the 98 Weeks Project Space.

The 98 Weeks Project Space is open daily from 3pm to 7pm, except on Sundays.

April 13, 2010

Bidoun nominated for Utne Independent Press Award

We are proud to announce that we have once again been nominated for an Utne Independent Press Award, this time in the “Arts Coverage” category.

March 30, 2010

Shahr-e Gheseh Screening at Cabinet Space

Cabinet Space
February 26, 2010, 7pm
300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn
FREE; no RSVP necessary

Bidoun and Cabinet co-present a screening of the film version of Bijan Mofid’s lauded 1967 avant-garde play Shahr-e Gheseh (City of Tales). Set in a mythical city populated by various animals, Shahr-e Gheseh is an allegorical fable in which the fate of a visiting elephant strangely echoes the fate of Iran under the modernity espoused by its rulers in the twentieth century.

Program in Farsi (film has NO SUBTITLES; discussion following also in Farsi)

Ab-Dough-Khiar and other refreshments will be provided.

February 12, 2010

Subscribe now in time for Interviews!

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There’s never been a better time to subscribe to Bidoun. Our quarterly dispatches on art & culture from the Middle East and beyond get better and better. And people are noticing: this spring we won our second Utne Independent Press Award for best cultural coverage, and were a finalist for a National Magazine Award for general excellence. Our newest issue — 18, INTERVIEWS — is chockfull of contemporary art, writing, and graphic design. Don’t miss out: subscribe NOW. By subscribing, you help us ensure that we can continue to bring you the best in arts and culture for years to come.

Subscribe now and get a full year of Bidoun for only $42. That’s four issues, starting with INTERVIEWS. Sit rapt as pop star M.I.A. tells tall tales of her Tamil childhood in Sri Lanka. Hang out with Beirut-based comics collective Samandal as they talk shop about giant robots, graphic novels, and the games they play. Look askance as Alejandro Jodorowsky describes psycho-magic and the alchemy of refuse. Marvel at the doomed but gaga art world of 1970s Tehran with gallerist Tony Shafrazi. Plus: defacing Guernica, defaming Paul Bowles, dueling Hitchcocks, Iraqi modernism, the world’s largest artist’s book, the secret of beauty, and Ghida Fakhry. And that’s just one issue!

Warmly,
The Editors

July 14, 2009

Art Mag Nite at BookCourt Brooklyn

Art Mag Nite

Readings and party with Paper Monument, Cabinet, Pin-Up, and Bidoun

Wednesday April 15, 2009 at 7pm
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY
FREE

April 10, 2009

Bidoun Nominated for National Magazine Award and Utne Independent Press Award

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Bidoun has been nominated for the 2009 National Magazine Awards for General Excellence Circulation under 100,000, and the 2009 Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence and for Social / Cultural Coverage.

April 6, 2009

Trevor Paglen and Thomas Keenan in conversation

June 29, 2006
‘Fine Print: Alternative Media’ at P.S.1 at Contemporary Art Center, New York

A series of public programs co-organized by P.S.1 with innovative publications from New York and nationwide, including The Believer, Cabinet, Clear Cut Press, Esopus, Influence, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Mass Appeal, n+1, The Relay Project, and Topic, as well as Bidoun. Tracking Bidoun presented a talk by artist and geographer Trevor Paglen on the CIA’s use of civilian planes to ‘render’ and ‘disappear’ suspected terrorists. Paglen also took on his recent trip to Kabul on the trail of secret prisons, black sites in the US, as well as what unmarked airplanes can tell us, and what they cannot. Thomas Keenan, head of Bard College’s Human Rights Project, acted as respondent.

June 23, 2006

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