The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind: Newsletter
Khalil Rabah American-Palestinian
Not on view
This work is an important example of the "Newsletter" chapter that initiated Rabah’s ongoing project The Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind, for which the artist is best known. The invented museum, manifested as site-specific installations by the artist at locations around the world, divides itself into spheres of natural and human life, echoing the conflation of non-Western peoples and natural resources in early colonial museum displays. Rabah commissioned this painting, like others in the project, from a Chinese workshop as an editioned series, as if to suggest that the medium of painting itself might be reproducible. It features the front page of the fictional museum’s members’ newsletter, imperfectly mimicking the institutional voice of an American museum.
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