Spaces of Consumption and the Erosion of Bahrain’s Art District

Earlier this month, the Bahraini gallery Al Riwaq Art Space announced it would be closing, its landlord having opted to rent the space to a restaurateur. Anywhere else such a conversion would be soundlessly slotted into the register of inevitable market-driven misfortunes, alongside out-of-place shopping centers, disappearing laundromats, and forcibly evicted tenants. Anywhere else, in […]

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