Sliman Mansour, a towering figure in Palestinian art, died yesterday at the age of 79. His work drew on the bleeding wound of the Nakba and the struggle for liberation, standing as a defiant answer to those who would prefer Palestine reduced to a distant memory.
Mansour painted the pride and dignity of his people. There is no anger in his canvases, and no call for revenge. Instead, his art presents a people who deserve to live on their land.
I know for a fact that he wished none of these paintings had to be made in the first place.
—Hakim Bishara, editor-in-chief
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Sliman Mansour, a celebrated Palestinian painter who documented more than six decades of his country’s struggle for liberation, has died at 79.
In other news, amid Trump’s threats to defund the National Museum of the American Latino, the Smithsonian board will reportedly vote on placing the fledgling institution in the recently reopened Arts & Industries Building — a move that would let it bypass Congressional approval.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced more than $8.4 million in grants for nonprofit and small business initiatives, including public art commissions and arts programming.
The Detroit Institute of the Arts has also unveiled a new public mural featuring a horse named Champagne.
