{"id":5134,"date":"2016-03-24T09:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=5134"},"modified":"2016-03-22T14:06:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:06:12","slug":"walid-raad-at-paula-cooper-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/walid-raad-at-paula-cooper-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Walid Raad\u2019s tongue in cheek narratives about the emergence of a booming new Arab art world, he\u2019s hunted for refugee color and fonts that have gone into hiding and reflections that are missing; here at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulacoopergallery.com\/exhibitions\/walid-raad-2016-02-27\/installation-views\" target=\"_blank\">Paula Cooper Gallery<\/a>, a wall text explains that the shadows normally cast by the artwork have run away, no longer interested in being part of the art infrastructure. The artist hopefully builds a series of walls with fake shadows to entice the real ones to return, all the while ostensibly failing to notice that the art itself is missing. (In Chelsea through March 26<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5135\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5135\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=5135\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5135\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5135\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/walid_raad-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Walid Raad, installation view of \u2018Letters to the Reader,\u2019 at Paula Cooper Gallery, March 2016.\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/walid_raad-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/walid_raad-1200x809.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Walid Raad, installation view of \u2018Letters to the Reader,\u2019 at Paula Cooper Gallery, March 2016.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Walid Raad\u2019s tongue in cheek narratives about the emergence of a booming new Arab art world, he\u2019s hunted for refugee color and fonts that have gone into hiding and reflections that are missing; here at Paula Cooper Gallery, a wall text explains that the shadows normally cast by the artwork have run away, no &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/walid-raad-at-paula-cooper-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Walid Raad at Paula Cooper Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[5718,8,147,18,117,571,13,432,5716,5717,12,369,2128,16,41,2751],"class_list":["post-5134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-arab","tag-art","tag-art-tour","tag-artist","tag-chelsea","tag-chelsea-tour","tag-gallery","tag-gallery-tour","tag-letters-to-the-reader","tag-missing-art","tag-new-york","tag-paula-cooper-gallery","tag-shadows","tag-tour","tag-walid-raad","tag-walls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-1kO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5136,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5134\/revisions\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}