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Tohu is an independent online art magazine based in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and published in Hebrew, Arabic and English. Visit: tohumagazine.com

Episodes

Sunday Apr 05, 2020

David Duvshani talks with Rafram Chaddad, artist and scholar of cooking traditions of the Mediterranean, who lives in Tunisia. They discuss art and food, wandering, traditions and their preservation, artworks created by Hadad in recent years, and the contemporary art scene in Tunisia. tohumagazine.com

Wednesday Mar 25, 2020

“What it Means to Write About Art features conversations with writers who average three decades of experience turning phrases that go to press with a bold, uninhibited passion for art.” Matt Hanson reviews Jarrett Earnest’s recent book, a collection of interviews with prominent art writers such as Jerry Saltz, Roberta Smith, Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, and Yve Alain Bois. Reading: Matt Hanson. 

Thursday Feb 27, 2020

David Duvshani talks with Raymond Pettibon about politics, nostalgia, baseball, and drawing, on the occasion of Pettibon’s exhibition “And What is Drawing For,” currently at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. 
 

Tuesday Feb 04, 2020

Writing a review of a recent publication on Afrofuturism for Tohu Magazine has led Lama Suleiman to explore the still-nascent concept of Arabfuturism and its potential relevance to the discourse on Arab and Palestinian cultural production.

Wednesday Sep 25, 2019

From researching and re-imagining a 1943 exhibition of modern Lebanese art in Jerusalem to writing for a leading independent arts magazine, Hakim Bishara has been experimenting with various practices in the past few years. David Duvshani recently met the Palestinian writer, curator, and artist in New York for a conversation about these multiple ventures and about the New York cultural scene in the Trump era.

Friday Sep 20, 2019

כתיבת סקירה על ספר בנושא אפרו-פוטוריזם עבור מגזין תוהו הביאה את למא סולימאן לבחון את רעיון הפוטוריזם הערבי, שנמצא עדיין בחיתוליו. דרך עבודות של אמנים כמו לריסה סנסור, סוליימן מג'לי וקולקטיב תשוויש, בודקת סולימאן את הפוטנציאל של הפוטוריזם הערבי להפוך למרכיב מרכזי בדיון העכשוי על תרבות ערבית בכלל ותרבות פלסטינית בפרט.

Thursday Sep 12, 2019

 מתי שמואלוף מקריא את השיחה שערך עם האמן יוסף ששון צמח, יליד בגדד, שחי ופועל באמסטרדם, העומד להקים פרויקט רחב ידיים ומרובה מוקדים באמסטרדם, בירושלים ובבבגדד. המשורר שמואלוף משוחח עמו על שנותיו כאמן בישראל לעומת היותו אמן יהודי בבלי באירופה, על יהדות, על גלות, על הדרה, ועל הסתרה ובנייה

Tuesday Aug 27, 2019

In this Tohu Podcast, David Duvshani meets performance and social practice art pioneer Mierle Laderman Ukeles in Jerusalem for a conversation following her move to Jerusalem and her latest retrospective exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York. They talk about manifestos, authenticity, collaboration, art education, women artists, labor organization, life in Jerusalem, and the state of the political Left in the US and in Israel/Palestine.

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