Contrasting Layers: Basim Magdy at artSümer Gallery
A deep sense of longing arises when experiencing Basim Magdy’s works. For his solo show…
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Archival Life: Amman Design Week 2026
The Hangar at Ras El Ain was built in the 1930s to house the generators…
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A Life in Thread: Batima Zaurbekova at the Abylkhan Kasteyev National Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan
For an artist celebrated as a founder of the Kazakh school of tapestry, Batima Zaurbekova…
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The Years Between: Group Show at Galerist
2001 was a watershed year for Türkiye. An overnight collapse in the stock market sparked…
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New Transportation: Group Show at CCA Tashkent
Tashkent is a city of many incarnations. Once revered as a great medieval centre of…
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A Wider Conversation: Contemporary Istanbul 2026
The first thing that has shifted this year is Contemporary Istanbul’s sense of space. For…
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Transmission Transcends Speech: Abdessamad El Montassir at La Friche la Belle de Mai
In the past, ‘forgetting’ – or cloaking in silence – was a standard approach to…
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What Lingers: Laila Majid and Inaam Zafar at Sharjah Art Foundation
The chirping of the birds and the calm aura of Sharjah Art Foundation’s courtyards surround Body…
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A Question of Place: Group Show at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMΣT)
Where am I? Google Maps will immediately inform me. I could alternatively ask a passer-by,…
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The Labour of Listening: Group Show at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum
When my friend Renyu and I translated Astrida Neimanis’s Bodies of Water into Chinese, we…
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A Spreading of Wings: Vyacheslav Akhunov at Palazzo Franchetti
The first dedicated space of its kind in Central Asia, the recently opened Centre for…
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Entangled Geographies: Group Show at the Barbican
“Panafrica”, the curators of the Barbican’s sprawling summer exhibition tell us, is an imagined geography…
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