{"id":79222,"date":"2025-10-16T21:10:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/79222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T21:10:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T21:10:14","slug":"creative-australia-gives-khaled-sabsabi-grant-after-biennale-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/79222\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Australia Gives Khaled Sabsabi Grant After Biennale Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter dropping and then reinstating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/khaled-sabsabi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_khaled-sabsabi\" data-tag=\"khaled-sabsabi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Khaled Sabsabi<\/a> as Australia\u2019s Venice Biennale representative, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/creative-australia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_creative-australia\" data-tag=\"creative-australia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Australia<\/a> has awarded the artist a $100,000 grant, the Guardian <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/oct\/14\/khaled-sabsabi-creative-australia-grant-venice-biennale-dumping\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tSabsabi is one of 16 awardees under Creative Australia\u2019s Visual Arts, Craft and Design Framework. His grant will support a solo show at the Samstag Museum of Art in Adelaide in 2027. According to the Guardian, that exhibition will also feature new work set to debut at the Biennale\u2019s Australia Pavilion next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Lebanese Australian artist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/australia-drops-2026-venice-biennale-khaled-sabsabi-hezbollah-video-1234732394\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">controversially dropped<\/a> as Australia\u2019s Biennale pick in February after some raised concerns about past works by him, including one that depicts Hassan Nasrallah, formerly the leader of Hezbollah. An article in the Australian also claimed that Sabsabi \u201cfavored boycotts of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/vip\/pmc-artnews-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ce0afa2b3b6ff78366b379c79196ccc0f9454f36-8192x5464-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A man pictured against a graffitied brick wall.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tCreative Australia, which facilitates the nation\u2019s Biennale pavilion, said at the time that work and others by Sabsabi pose \u201can unacceptable risk to public support for Australia\u2019s artistic community.\u201d Sabsabi and his curator, Michael Dagostino, said they were being censored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMany in Australia denounced the decision and called for a reevaluation of the practices of Creative Australia. Senior leaders at the organization departed amid the controversy. Meanwhile, Monash University said in March that it had \u201cindefinitely postponed\u201d a planned exhibition by Sabsabi. (Less than two months later, the school decided to move forward with the show.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThen, in July, roughly five months after Sabsabi was dropped from the pavilion, Creative Australia announced that the artist and Dagostino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/khaled-sabsabi-reinstated-for-venice-biennale-1234746757\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would be reinstated<\/a>. Sabsabi and Dagostino said the reinstatement offered \u201ca sense of resolution\u201d after \u201csignificant personal and collective hardship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dropping and then reinstating Khaled Sabsabi as Australia\u2019s Venice Biennale representative, Creative Australia has awarded the artist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[437,434,435,436,30891,438,146,85,46,55521],"class_list":["post-79222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-creative-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-khaled-sabsabi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}