Talk The Anti-Colonial Avant-Garde: Towards a New Sensibility
- When
- 2026-12-15 18:30
- Where
- Darat al Funun – The Beirut House · Amman
- Price
- Free entry
- Organizer
- darat alfunun
Darat al Funun presents the second talk of "Inheriting the Avant-Garde: Art History and the Horizons of Liberation", a series led by Natasha Gasparian, fellow of the Darat al Funun Program for Advanced Studies in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art 2025/2026. The series draws on her research on the art and visual culture of the Palestinian liberation movement and the wider artistic and intellectual currents that took shape around it.
📅 Tuesday, December 15, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM
📍 Darat al Funun – The Beirut House
About the talk:
- Traces the history of anti-colonial avant-garde art movements across the Arab world, which began to emerge after the June 1967 war
- Looks at how artists and thinkers tried to explore new forms of expression within a shifting political context, with Palestine as a unifying theme
- Revisits the concept of the "new sensibility", how art movements take shape, and what it means to inherit the history of an art movement that did not fully achieve its political aspirations
Details:
- Organized by: Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation
- Speaker: Natasha Gasparian
- Language: English
- Registration is required through the registration form on the Darat al Funun website
- The series closes with a guided tour on Saturday, December 19