Articles By: Canvas Staff

Edinburgh
MUSEUMS National Museum of Scotland This is the Scottish museum, Edinburgh’s answer to London’s British…
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Copenhagen
MUSEUMS Designmuseum Danmark No one can consider their time in Copenhagen complete until they’ve dug…
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When the Dancers Shine
Canvas: Why is this the first time that Van Cleef & Arpels hosts a heritage…
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Harmonious Abstraction
How did the partnership with Van Cleef & Arpels begin? WS: It all started last…
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The Nature of Design
How do you feel about being chosen as the winner of the Van Cleef &…
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Stockholm
MUSEUMS Fotografiska The perfect place to begin any tour of Stockholm is at Fotografiska, a…
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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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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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Passing Time
“There is nothing more beautiful than to forget oneself,” writes Fouad Elkoury in Passing Time,…
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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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Slapstick Formalism: Process, Project, Object
It’s hard to pin down the type of work that Brad Downey creates – a…
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