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Artistic and legal objects: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings depicting detention at Guantanamo

29 April 2020 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez Warning: this post contains sensitive drawings which some people may find disturbing. What is art? Is Abu Zubaydah’s drawings of the torture methods used against him “art”? As explained in an article published in the newspaper The New York Times on December 4, 2019, Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi national who was arrested in Pakistan…

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Picasso and the War

23 July 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez When I think of Picasso, I think of weird shaped and coloured women. Of course, I think of Guernica too but that only comes later, and little did I know of the artist’s actual political commitment. Therefore, when answering the Musée de l’Armée’s survey, I check the box “totally agree” to the question…

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Threat of an erosion of Second World War Era Restitution Principles

9 March 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Nolwenn Guibert On 3 December 1998, 44 governments participating in the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets endorsed what came to be known as the “Washington Principles” for dealing with artwork confiscated by the Nazi Regime during the Second World War. The Washington Principles establish, inter alia, that in assessing whether a work of art has…

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Everyone can be a Pussy Riot (Art and Resistance – Chapter 1)

22 February 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Manon Beury “I cannot attend the Pussy Riot’s performance tonight. Do you want my ticket?” It is a beautiful gift that Fiana, founder of Creating Rights, offered me this Thursday morning. On January 31st, 2019, we waited for the show to start at 20:30 at Paard in The Hague. I didn’t know what to expect…

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Women are heroes by JR

23 January 2019 0Comments 0Reactions

By Juliette Remond-Tiedrez I went to JR’s exposition Momentum at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (in English European House of Photography) in Paris mainly because I was interested in one of his projects: Women are heroes. Maybe I should warn you that, if you decide to go to this exhibition after reading this article, you shouldn’t be…