Dina A. Ramadan
Dina A. Ramadan is a writer and critic based in New York. She teaches at Bard College and the Center for Curatorial Studies. She is a 2023 recipient of the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category.
May 2026ArtSeen
The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant
The Earth, the Fire, the Water, and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant returns to a precursory moment to focus on the Martinican poet and philosopher’s own relationship to art, not just as an art critic but also a collector with a vision for a museum.
Through his interdisciplinary practice, Iraqi artist Wafaa Bilal has been exploring for the past two decades what he refers to as “cultural cannibalism.”
By including artists across generations and media such as Robert Colescott, Fred Wilson, Kara Walker, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Lauren Halsey, Flight into Egypt certainly succeeds in demonstrating the almost ubiquitous—although at times inflated—presence of ancient Egypt in African American art and in doing so, presents something of a survey of its history.
