Articles By: Canvas Staff

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Khatt: Egypt’s Calligraphic Landscape
Calligraphic script is ubiquitous in Egypt, its styles ranging from graphic and modern to elaborate…
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Persia Reframed: Iranian Visions of Modern and Contemporary Art
Authored by scholar and former MoMA curator Fereshteh Daftar, this book is an impressive, well-researched…
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3 min read
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Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East
Favoured for its aniconic elements, geometry in Islamic art has been used as a way…
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3 min read
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Passing Time
“There is nothing more beautiful than to forget oneself,” writes Fouad Elkoury in Passing Time,…
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3 min read
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Drawing Lines
“Who are we as Lebanese? What has the war triggered in us? How do the…
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2 min read
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Slapstick Formalism: Process, Project, Object
It’s hard to pin down the type of work that Brad Downey creates – a…
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2 min read
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New Art New Market
This is a revised edition of lain Robertson’s 2011 book, A New Art From Emerging…
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2 min read
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Plastic Capitalism
For this well-rounded study of the art world’s visualization of waste, art historian Amanda Boetzkes…
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2 min read
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Bauhaus – 100 years of bauhaus
As it’s the centenary of the Bauhaus, to which a Bauhaus Imaginate traveling exhibition (to…
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St Petersburg
MUSEUMS The State Hermitage Museum In any overview of St Petersburg’s museums, it is impossible…
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22 min read
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Chaouki Choukini: Corpus
Corpus is an unusual take on the works of Lebanese sculptor Chaouki Choukini by art…
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2 min read
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Pouran Jinchi
In this first monograph on Pouran Jinchi, three critical voices examine the Iranian-American artist’s 25-year-long…
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