$75K Payout Avoids Libel Suit Over “Palestinian Art”
June 23rd, 2008 by Menachem Wecker
The Forward and The Chronicle of Higher Education report that Gannit Ankori has won $75,000 from the College Art Association, publisher of Art Journal, to settle a libel suit.
Joseph A. Massad, who is up for tenure at Columbia (see here for the controversy), had claimed in his review of Ankori’s book “Palestinian Art” that she plagiarized from Kamal Boullata. The review appears to have been removed from AJ’s site, but here is a version that seems to be reliable (HT: The Angry Arab News Service).
I interviewed Ankori for this piece on Frida Kahlo, and my own review of “Palestinian Art” is here.
HT: artforum