Where Statues Breathe, a Fair Finds Its Centre: 1-54 Marrakech 2026
First, the silence. At MACAAL, the room held its breath. In front of the 108…
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A New Model: Art Basel Qatar
At a time when art fairs and biennials seem to crop up incessantly and often…
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Nargess Hashemi
There is something ironic about the Iranian artist Nargess Hashemi’s memories of her childhood, spent…
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Arghavan Khosravi
Home has always been a complex subject for artists of the diaspora. There or here,…
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Refined Luxury: Mandarin Oriental, Doha
Promoted as the world’s first sustainable downtown regeneration project, Msheireb Downtown Doha is a dynamic…
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Farah Al Qasimi
Whenever Farah Al Qasimi visits her parents in Abu Dhabi, the Brooklynite artist chooses to…
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Wael Shawky
Sophie Kazan Makhlouf: The fair’s central theme is Becoming. What does the word mean to…
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Ryoichi Kurokawa
Creating work since the early 2000s, Japanese audiovisual artist and composer Ryoichi Kurokawa is considered…
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Shortlisted Artists for 7th Edition of Ithra Art Prize Revealed
The shortlisted artists for the 7th edition of the Ithra Art Prize have been revealed…
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Sara Shamma to Represent Syria at the Venice Biennale 2026 with Curator Yuko Hasegawa
Sara Shamma has been selected to represent Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale. The Syrian…
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Where Images Sweat: Meriem Bennani in Essaouira
There are places that resist the neutralising impulse of contemporary exhibition-making. In Essaouira, inside a…
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