Art as Language: Etel Adnan at Ithra
“What can I say of the fact that I do not use my native tongue…
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Hend Samir
Canvas: Your paintings play with the conventions of perspective in a very unique way, blending…
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For the Record: Group Show at Sharjah Art Foundation
Edward Said, in typically elegant and pithy prose, put it well: “The question of Palestine,”…
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Flowing Through Time: AlUla’s History of Crafts
Standing 50 metres above the ruins of Dadan, the capital of the ancient Dadanite and…
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Water as a Women’s Issue: Group Show at Women’s Pavilion, Expo City in Dubai
Launched during COP28, Resonating Tides extends the summit’s discussions around climate action to the realm…
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The Politics of Abstraction: Samia Halaby at Sharjah Art Museum
In Samia Halaby’s vast painting The Martyrdom of Talal (2012), a woman crouches in a…
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Taking it Slow: Afra Al Dhaheri at Green Art Gallery
Stepping into Afra Al Dhaheri’s Give Your Weight to the Ground is like entering a…
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Dispatches from Hong Kong: Abu Dhabi Art 2023
Recent months have seen a markedly increasing presence of Middle Eastern art in Southeast Asia,…
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The Modern Macabre: Cengiz Çekil at Arter
Cengiz Çekil’s I Am Still Alive is an investigation of death. On view at Istanbul’s…
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Magic of the Mundane: Poetic of Machines at 421
The longer you look at Nasir Nasrallah’s The journey of living machines that are floating…
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New Artistic Talent Blooms at Contemporary Istanbul’s Spring Spinoff
“The backbone of the Turkish contemporary art scene has always been Turkish galleries and artists,”…
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Giving the People What They Want: Ithra at the Islamic Arts Biennale
“Art is an identity, and not preserving it means not preserving one’s identity,” said one…
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