Minor Detail - Adania Shibli animals and the number of syllables

and the number of syllables in the words

these two volumes expand the horizons of—and introduce a new generation to—Venturi’s “gentle manifesto

Aira’s On Contemporary Art exemplifies what the ekphrasis series is dedicated to doing—exploring the space in which words give meaning to objects

As in the eponymous exhibition at Mori Art Museum

into which he introduced lasting innovations in terms of both technique and methodology

Minor Detail - Adania Shibli animals and the number of syllablesMinor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba morethe catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people and the Israelis celebrate as the War of Independence. Israeli soldiers capture and rape a young Palestinian woman, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this minor