On September 16, Oslo’s Munch Museum announced New York-based Palestinian artist Samia Halaby as the winner of its annual Munch Museum Award. During the 1950s, she was formally trained in abstract expressionism in the American Midwest, earning an MFA in painting from Indiana University in 1963. In 1986, Halaby ventured into digital art, using self-taught coding techniques to create kinetic paintings on an Amiga computer. Alongside her six-decade-long creative practice, Halaby has established herself as a scholar and staunch advocate, writing and organizing around issues of class, race, and the Palestinian struggle. Her 2002 book Liberation Art of Palestine, for example, remains a seminal documentation of 20th-century Palestinian art.