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Celebrating the 20th anniversary and the 80th birthday

This year is a special year for us at this website: First, we celebrate Abed Abdi’s 80th birthday! We wish him a very happy birthday and continuous creativity, even if the latter means more work for us at the website 🙂 . Secondly, we also celebrate the 20th anniversary for the existence of the domain...

January 6, 2022ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

The Painting that will Never Leave Haifa

مراسل حيفا نت | Haifa Net Reporter | 26/11/2021, All photo’s courtesy Haifa Museum of Art The painting that will Never Leave Haifa Last night, the Haifa Museum of Art celebrated an important addition to its art collection: an artwork by Haifa born artist Abed Abdi. A group of Palestinian and Jewish donors recently acquired...

November 29, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Barjeel Art Foundation adds more than 30 artworks to its collection

Another highlight is a 1961 work by Palestinian artist Abed Abdi titled Refugees, a muted painting of displaced figures trekking across a grey landscape. Born in Haifa, Abdi also works in graphic design and sculpture, though he is most known for his depictions of the Palestinian occupation.

July 8, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Opinion | Israel’s Moment of Truth Is Approaching – Will It Choose to Be Jewish or Democratic?

Gideon Levy Jun. 27, 2021 12:31 AM HAARETZ NEWSPAPER On Wednesday, we’ll know whether the Knesset wants a state that is Jewish or democratic. The Knesset has no other choice but one of these two. Israel has no other real choice except one – one alone – of these two possibilities. It can’t be both,...

June 29, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

After Israel’s Jewish-Arab Unrest, Haifa Museum Opens ‘Exhibition of Healing’

Huge new show celebrates museum’s 70th anniversary and includes works of 128 Israeli and Palestinian artists. Palestinian artist Abed Abdi stands in front of his painting “Refugees Waiting for Their Return” (2018) at the Haifa Museum of Art. (Gil Mezuman) (The Media Line) When he first set out to organize a large-scale exhibition of Israeli...

June 18, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Review of the Land Day Monument

Lucy Gellman | May 17th, 2021 Art Council of Greater New Haven Excerpt from Article covering Palestine Cultural Week at the Palestine Museum USA: Abed Abdi and Gershon Knispel’s Memorial Sarcophagus for the Six Martyrs To The Day of The Land rises from the ground in aluminum and grey cement, heavy from the moment a viewer...

May 17, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Book: British Museum / Reflections, Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa

Included in the book: Abed Abdi’s Artwork “Refugees” A richly illustrated book of contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa drawn from the British Museum’s permanent collection Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa brings together an extraordinary collection of work from the British Museum for the first time. The contemporary art of...

February 6, 2021ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Selections / The Diary of An Artist in Interesting Times

Abed Abdi interviewed by Selections art magazine Taking up this issue’s theme of ‘The Diary of an Artist in Confinement Interesting Times’, Selections invited artists to share their thoughts on work, art and life in general since the beginning of the year. We guided them with the following questions: What image(s) illustrate(s) 2020 for you...

October 8, 2020ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews

Abed Abdi in Sotheby’s first online-only auction for 20th century Middle Eastern art defies COVID-19

Success of auction house’s category sale signals hope for sector, confidence in ME art amid virus pandemic Updated 02 April 2020, Arab News DUBAI: A month ago, no one would have imagined that their existence would soon be relegated to the place that they call home. The world has had to learn a lot, and...

April 2, 2020ByAbed Abdi's Online Art ArchiveInReviews