Maymanah Farhat

Edited by Carla Chammas, Rachel Dedman, and Omar Kholeif Helen Khal: Gallery One and Beirut in the 1960s (Sternberg Press, 2023) Before the economic crisis hit Lebanon in 2019 and the Beirut port explosion brought further devastation the following year, the Lebanese art scene was in the midst of a revival.

Art Books This book provides an opening of the field beyond the parameters of the so-called Western canon with a multigenerational selection of artists.

MAY 2022 Issue Art Books This book presents a template for how documentation and analysis can be used to honor the region’s idiosyncratic art making practices Jordan Stein Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces (Soberscove Press, 2021) Jordan Stein’s Rip Tales: Jay DeFeo’s Estocada & Other Pieces takes the idea of an artwork that has gone from creation, to destruction, to reanimation as the premise for a book that offers a much-needed glimpse into the ecology of the Bay Area art scene.