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The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Genre Art in The Era Of Contest, 1920–1960, the first comprehensive US museum survey of nude genre art by artists in the Middle East and North African region that were formerly Ottoman but not-yet-Arab.
DUBAI: “Within art histories, the Global South has been underrepresented. And within that, the Arab world has been underrepresented. And within texts looking at the greater Middle East, the Gulf has been marginalized. We wanted to reclaim ownership of that space in some way.” Dr.
Hamed Abdalla ‘Ville Arab’ Cairo-born Abdalla was the son of peasants and a self-taught artist whose work drew from Egyptian folk art and his own deep connection to his homeland (despite leaving for Europe as an adult). His lack of formal artistic education enabled him to create with academic limitations and his work became an important component of modern Egyptian art.