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Image: Palestinian coins from the British Museum digital archive Visiting the British Museum feels impossible. I just can’t bring myself to go inside. Still, it lingers in my mind. I want so badly to see these world-class objects—so old, so far-...

HOT OFF THE PRESS The British Agenda: Part I

ESSAYS

The British Agenda: Part I

Image: Palestinian coins from the British Museum digital archive Visiting the British Museum feels impossible. I ju...

Footballer Edition: A Tribute, Not a Tweet

My father always told me that there was a pitch in Lifta where people played football. He was born after 1948, so eve...

Zohran, Bad Bunny, and Palestine: A Trifecta of Possibility

The last five years have been, objectively, abysmal. Climate disaster is no longer looming: it has arrived. Floods, f...

INTERVIEW

A Conversation with filmmaker Liam O'Hare

This is a conversation hosted by Lifta Club, and documentary filmmaker Liam O'Hare about Aida Refugee Camp and Lajee Centre, a grassroots creative and cultural organization that supports Palestinian rights and the struggle for justice.

Lifta Club | 26 October 2025

PICKS

Naeem Mohaiemen: THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY

Albany House, London

In his new three-channel film THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY, artist and friend of Lifta Club Naeem Mohaiemen takes us back to the 1970s, a decade charged with both radical hope and deep disillusionment. Through his lens, we revisit a moment when young people across America rose against racism and war, only to be met with devastating state violence. On view 21 September – 9 November 2025.

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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

Royal Academy of Arts, London

This month we couldn’t miss the work of one of the most important artists of our time: Kerry James Marshall. His paintings are bold, beautiful, and unapologetically put Black life at the centre of art history. The Histories brings together more than 70 of his works in the largest exhibition of his art ever shown outside the US. On view from 20 September 2025 – 18 January 2026

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Archivos del Caribe

Puerto Rico

While in Puerto Rico, we met the inspiring founder of Archivos del Caribe, a cross-cultural arts organization dedicated to reimagining Caribbean archives through art, history, and critical dialogue. Featured in this month’s essay, their work centers justice, memory, and creativity to preserve and uplift the Antillean Caribbean’s rich cultural heritage.

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Exhibition: Corps et âmes at Bourse de Commerce

Paris, France

Drawing some 100 works from the Pinault Collection, this exhibition is an exploration of representations of the body in contemporary art. From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, Georg Baselitz to Ana Mendieta, David Hammons to Marlene Dumas, and Arthur Jafa to Ali Cherri, some forty artists have used painting, sculpture, photography, video, and drawing to explore the connections between body and soul.

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Paris Noir: Artistic circulations and anti-colonial resistance, 1950 – 2000

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Retraces the presence and influence of Black artists in France from the 1950s to 2000. The exhibition celebrates 150 artists coming from Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean, whose works have often never been displayed in France before.

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Wild Relatives traces seeds across international borders

Documentary Film

Jumana Manna maps the complex pathway of seed distribution between Lebanon's Beqaa Valley and the Global Seed Vault deep inside Norway's Svalbard archipelago.

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