August 12, 2010
Museum as Hub:
The Bidoun Library Project
4 August – 26 September 2010
New Museum
235 Bowery
New York, NY 10002
Most of the 700-odd titles in the library were acquired specifically for this exhibition. The shape of the collection was dictated primarily by search terms on the World Wide Web rather than any intrinsic notion of aptness or excellence. Searching for “Arab,” “paperback,” “1970s,” and “Bidoun: Arts and Culture From the Middle East.