{"id":1820584,"date":"2026-03-11T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1820584"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T07:00:47","slug":"art-basel-qatars-complicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1820584","title":{"rendered":"Art Basel Qatar&#8217;s Complicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><main class=\"gh-main\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Art Basel Qatar&#8217;s Complicity<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Art Basel&#8217;s complicity in Qatar&#8217;s persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-03-11\">March 11, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Nasser Mohamed, the only publicly queer Qatari citizen, strikes at the heart of a fundamental ethical contradiction in our field today: &#8220;The art world cannot claim to champion freedom while ignoring the people who are denied it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except it often does, including Art Basel Qatar. In a moving opinion piece, Mohamed writes about the dissonance of fleeing a country because it criminalizes queerness while watching artists, dealers, and collectors flock to its capital.<\/p>\n<p>In other stories, artists and political figures lead a protest against Russia&#8217;s participation in the Venice Biennale, while US-Israel airstrikes damage another precious Iranian cultural heritage site. Check out our list of art books to read this month, plus Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang&#8217;s searing review of Anika Jade Levy\u2019s new novel <em>Flat Earth<\/em>, which struck her as &#8220;navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory.&#8221; Finally, the latest installation of A Beer With a Painter brings us into the life and process of Hilary Harkness, another artist who knows that the brush is a political tool just as much as a creative one.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/ABQ26__MC__PR__General_Impressions__023_Large_HiRes-1-1.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>The inaugural Art Basel Qatar in Doha, February 2026 (image courtesy Art Basel) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"don%E2%80%99t-believe-what-art-basel-qatar-is-trying-to-sell-you\">Don\u2019t Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You<\/h3>\n<p>I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom. | Nasser Mohamed<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/HyperallergicSponsoredEmail-EliasSime-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"900x471\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><i><b><strong class=\"italic\">Elias Sime: FINAL DROP (\u12e8\u1218\u1328\u1228\u123b\u12cb \u1320\u1265\u1273) <\/strong><\/b><\/i><b><strong>at James Cohan\u2019s 52 Walker Street Gallery<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Working with electronic components such as circuit boards, computer keys, and telecommunications wires, Elias Sime creates lyrical abstract compositions that shift seamlessly between evocations of landscape, urban topography, the human form, and expansive fields of radiant color. These works make visible the movement of material goods across the globe while illuminating the fragility of our networked existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/IMG_2469-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>A sculpture of Trump and Epstein in front of the US Capitol (Photo by Emma Cieslik\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A sculpture of Trump and Epstein, echoing one of the most famous scenes in\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>\u00a0(1997), popped up in front of the US Capitol on Tuesday, March 10.<\/li>\n<li>Over 6,000 artists, curators, and journalists signed an open letter calling on Venice Biennale leaders to \u201caddress the implications\u201d of Russia\u2019s participation in this year\u2019s exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Israeli and United States forces have taken aim at the city of Isfahan in Iran, with strikes reportedly damaging several centuries-old palaces and buildings that functioned as cultural and tourism centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"books\">Books<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/march_books--1-.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Pao Houa Her\u2019s new catalog, Rothko\u2019s friendship with Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb, and more (edit Shari Flores\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"7-art-books-for-your-march-reading-list\">7 Art Books for Your March Reading List<\/h3>\n<p>Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, and Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"please-no-more-disaffected-white-girls\">Please, No More Disaffected White Girls<\/h3>\n<p>Anika Jade Levy\u2019s \u201cFlat Earth\u201d is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory \u2014 a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people. | Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/sp_hyper_center-for-craft_archive-fellowship-2022-2.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/HH_still-from-video-by-Izaak-Liptzin-2024-2-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Video still from \u201dPersisting Matters: Hilary Harkness\u2033 (Awen Films, 2024) (videography by Isaak Liptzkin)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"beer-with-a-painter-hilary-harkness\">Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness<\/h3>\n<p>If paint doesn\u2019t feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,\u201d said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction. | Jennifer Samet<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/hharkness-book-3.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Hilary Harkness, \u201cExperienced People Needed\u201d (2018) (image courtesy Hilary Harkness and PPOW, New York)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"where-funhouse-erotics-meet-art-history\">Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History<\/h3>\n<p><em>Hilary Harkness: Everything For You<\/em> enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories. | Alexis Clements<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/main><\/p>\n<article class=\"gh-article post tag-daily-newsletter tag-newsletter no-image\">\n<header class=\"gh-article-header gh-canvas\">\n<p>                Daily Newsletter<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"gh-article-title is-title\">Art Basel Qatar&#8217;s Complicity<\/h1>\n<p class=\"gh-article-excerpt is-body\">Art Basel&#8217;s complicity in Qatar&#8217;s persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta\">\n<div class=\"gh-article-author-image instapaper_ignore\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-profile-image\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w160\/2025\/11\/hyperallergic-favicon-d-blank-r-g-s-500.png\" alt=\"Hyperallergic\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-wrapper\">\n<h4 class=\"gh-article-author-name\">Hyperallergic<\/h4>\n<div class=\"gh-article-meta-content\"><time class=\"gh-article-meta-date\" datetime=\"2026-03-11\">March 11, 2026<\/time><span class=\"gh-article-meta-length\"><span class=\"bull\">\u2014<\/span> 4 min read<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Nasser Mohamed, the only publicly queer Qatari citizen, strikes at the heart of a fundamental ethical contradiction in our field today: &#8220;The art world cannot claim to champion freedom while ignoring the people who are denied it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except it often does, including Art Basel Qatar. In a moving opinion piece, Mohamed writes about the dissonance of fleeing a country because it criminalizes queerness while watching artists, dealers, and collectors flock to its capital.<\/p>\n<p>In other stories, artists and political figures lead a protest against Russia&#8217;s participation in the Venice Biennale, while US-Israel airstrikes damage another precious Iranian cultural heritage site. Check out our list of art books to read this month, plus Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang&#8217;s searing review of Anika Jade Levy\u2019s new novel <em>Flat Earth<\/em>, which struck her as &#8220;navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory.&#8221; Finally, the latest installation of A Beer With a Painter brings us into the life and process of Hilary Harkness, another artist who knows that the brush is a political tool just as much as a creative one.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/ABQ26__MC__PR__General_Impressions__023_Large_HiRes-1-1.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>The inaugural Art Basel Qatar in Doha, February 2026 (image courtesy Art Basel) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"don%E2%80%99t-believe-what-art-basel-qatar-is-trying-to-sell-you\">Don\u2019t Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You<\/h3>\n<p>I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom. | Nasser Mohamed<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/HyperallergicSponsoredEmail-EliasSime-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"900x471\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><i><b><strong class=\"italic\">Elias Sime: FINAL DROP (\u12e8\u1218\u1328\u1228\u123b\u12cb \u1320\u1265\u1273) <\/strong><\/b><\/i><b><strong>at James Cohan\u2019s 52 Walker Street Gallery<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Working with electronic components such as circuit boards, computer keys, and telecommunications wires, Elias Sime creates lyrical abstract compositions that shift seamlessly between evocations of landscape, urban topography, the human form, and expansive fields of radiant color. These works make visible the movement of material goods across the globe while illuminating the fragility of our networked existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/IMG_2469-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>A sculpture of Trump and Epstein in front of the US Capitol (Photo by Emma Cieslik\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A sculpture of Trump and Epstein, echoing one of the most famous scenes in\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>\u00a0(1997), popped up in front of the US Capitol on Tuesday, March 10.<\/li>\n<li>Over 6,000 artists, curators, and journalists signed an open letter calling on Venice Biennale leaders to \u201caddress the implications\u201d of Russia\u2019s participation in this year\u2019s exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Israeli and United States forces have taken aim at the city of Isfahan in Iran, with strikes reportedly damaging several centuries-old palaces and buildings that functioned as cultural and tourism centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"books\">Books<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/march_books--1-.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Pao Houa Her\u2019s new catalog, Rothko\u2019s friendship with Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb, and more (edit Shari Flores\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"7-art-books-for-your-march-reading-list\">7 Art Books for Your March Reading List<\/h3>\n<p>Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, and Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"please-no-more-disaffected-white-girls\">Please, No More Disaffected White Girls<\/h3>\n<p>Anika Jade Levy\u2019s \u201cFlat Earth\u201d is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory \u2014 a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people. | Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/sp_hyper_center-for-craft_archive-fellowship-2022-2.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/HH_still-from-video-by-Izaak-Liptzin-2024-2-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Video still from \u201dPersisting Matters: Hilary Harkness\u2033 (Awen Films, 2024) (videography by Isaak Liptzkin)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"beer-with-a-painter-hilary-harkness\">Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness<\/h3>\n<p>If paint doesn\u2019t feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,\u201d said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction. | Jennifer Samet<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/hharkness-book-3.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Hilary Harkness, \u201cExperienced People Needed\u201d (2018) (image courtesy Hilary Harkness and PPOW, New York)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"where-funhouse-erotics-meet-art-history\">Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History<\/h3>\n<p><em>Hilary Harkness: Everything For You<\/em> enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories. | Alexis Clements<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<li>\n                        Newsletter\n                      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n<section class=\"gh-content gh-canvas is-body\">\n<p>Nasser Mohamed, the only publicly queer Qatari citizen, strikes at the heart of a fundamental ethical contradiction in our field today: &#8220;The art world cannot claim to champion freedom while ignoring the people who are denied it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Except it often does, including Art Basel Qatar. In a moving opinion piece, Mohamed writes about the dissonance of fleeing a country because it criminalizes queerness while watching artists, dealers, and collectors flock to its capital.<\/p>\n<p>In other stories, artists and political figures lead a protest against Russia&#8217;s participation in the Venice Biennale, while US-Israel airstrikes damage another precious Iranian cultural heritage site. Check out our list of art books to read this month, plus Associate Editor Lisa Yin Zhang&#8217;s searing review of Anika Jade Levy\u2019s new novel <em>Flat Earth<\/em>, which struck her as &#8220;navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory.&#8221; Finally, the latest installation of A Beer With a Painter brings us into the life and process of Hilary Harkness, another artist who knows that the brush is a political tool just as much as a creative one.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Lakshmi Rivera Amin, associate editor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/ABQ26__MC__PR__General_Impressions__023_Large_HiRes-1-1.jpeg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>The inaugural Art Basel Qatar in Doha, February 2026 (image courtesy Art Basel) <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"don%E2%80%99t-believe-what-art-basel-qatar-is-trying-to-sell-you\">Don\u2019t Believe What Art Basel Qatar Is Trying to Sell You<\/h3>\n<p>I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom. | Nasser Mohamed<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/HyperallergicSponsoredEmail-EliasSime-1.png\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"900x471\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><i><b><strong class=\"italic\">Elias Sime: FINAL DROP (\u12e8\u1218\u1328\u1228\u123b\u12cb \u1320\u1265\u1273) <\/strong><\/b><\/i><b><strong>at James Cohan\u2019s 52 Walker Street Gallery<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Working with electronic components such as circuit boards, computer keys, and telecommunications wires, Elias Sime creates lyrical abstract compositions that shift seamlessly between evocations of landscape, urban topography, the human form, and expansive fields of radiant color. These works make visible the movement of material goods across the globe while illuminating the fragility of our networked existence.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"news\">News<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/IMG_2469-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>A sculpture of Trump and Epstein in front of the US Capitol (Photo by Emma Cieslik\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A sculpture of Trump and Epstein, echoing one of the most famous scenes in\u00a0<em>Titanic<\/em>\u00a0(1997), popped up in front of the US Capitol on Tuesday, March 10.<\/li>\n<li>Over 6,000 artists, curators, and journalists signed an open letter calling on Venice Biennale leaders to \u201caddress the implications\u201d of Russia\u2019s participation in this year\u2019s exhibition.<\/li>\n<li>Israeli and United States forces have taken aim at the city of Isfahan in Iran, with strikes reportedly damaging several centuries-old palaces and buildings that functioned as cultural and tourism centers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"books\">Books<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/march_books--1-.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Pao Houa Her\u2019s new catalog, Rothko\u2019s friendship with Milton Avery and Adolph Gottlieb, and more (edit Shari Flores\/<\/span><i><em class=\"italic\">Hyperallergic<\/em><\/i><span>)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"7-art-books-for-your-march-reading-list\">7 Art Books for Your March Reading List<\/h3>\n<p>Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more. | Natalie Haddad, Hrag Vartanian, Lakshmi Rivera Amin, and Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"please-no-more-disaffected-white-girls\">Please, No More Disaffected White Girls<\/h3>\n<p>Anika Jade Levy\u2019s \u201cFlat Earth\u201d is navel-gazing, ouroboric, masturbatory \u2014 a Dimes Square novel for Dimes Square people. | Lisa Yin Zhang<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"kg-card kg-cta-card kg-cta-bg-white kg-cta-immersive  kg-cta-has-img  \" data-layout=\"immersive\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-sponsor-label\"><span>SPONSORED<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-image-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/sp_hyper_center-for-craft_archive-fellowship-2022-2.jpg\" alt=\"CTA Image\" data-image-dimensions=\"1200x675\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"kg-cta-content-inner\">\n<div class=\"kg-cta-text\">\n<p><b><strong>Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>                            Learn more<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"community\">Community<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/HH_still-from-video-by-Izaak-Liptzin-2024-2-1-1.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Video still from \u201dPersisting Matters: Hilary Harkness\u2033 (Awen Films, 2024) (videography by Isaak Liptzkin)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"beer-with-a-painter-hilary-harkness\">Beer With a Painter: Hilary Harkness<\/h3>\n<p>If paint doesn\u2019t feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing,\u201d said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction. | Jennifer Samet<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"from-the-archive\">From the Archive<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/2026\/03\/hharkness-book-3.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><figcaption><span>Hilary Harkness, \u201cExperienced People Needed\u201d (2018) (image courtesy Hilary Harkness and PPOW, New York)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3 id=\"where-funhouse-erotics-meet-art-history\">Where Funhouse Erotics Meet Art History<\/h3>\n<p><em>Hilary Harkness: Everything For You<\/em> enfolds us into surreal worlds of gender-bending militaries, feminine revenge, and alternative histories. | Alexis Clements<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-tags\">\n<li>\n                        Daily 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Now on view in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Museum of Craft and Design<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/CA200040-2400x1350.jpg\" alt=\"Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Olafur Eliasson: A symphony of disappearing sounds for the Great Salt Lake<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">As the lake\u2019s ecological crisis worsens, the artist\u2019s new site-specific installation in Salt Lake City renders audible what is increasingly at risk of vanishing.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Wake the Great Salt Lake<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/03\/LizNielsen_RotatingLandscape1.jpg\" alt=\"Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen\u2019s Photograms\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Interdimensional Timelines: Hartford Art School Exhibits Liz Nielsen\u2019s Photograms<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">As she concludes her term as the university\u2019s Distinguished Chair in Photography, Nielsen\u2019s \u201clight paintings\u201d are on view this spring in West Hartford, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">University of Hartford<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"gh-card post\">\n<figure class=\"gh-card-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/content\/images\/size\/w600\/2026\/02\/sp_hyper_center-for-craft_archive-fellowship-2022-1.jpg\" alt=\"Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"gh-card-wrapper\">\n<h3 class=\"gh-card-title is-title\">Call for Applications: 2026 Craft Archive Fellowship<\/h3>\n<p class=\"gh-card-excerpt is-body\">The Center for Craft will award up to four $5,000 fellowships to support research on underrepresented craft histories, culminating in an article on Hyperallergic.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"gh-card-meta\"><span class=\"gh-card-author\">Center for Craft<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/art-basel-qatars-complicity\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;&#8221;] Daily Newsletter Art Basel Qatar&#8217;s Complicity Art Basel&#8217;s complicity in Qatar&#8217;s persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more. 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