Articles By: Canvas Staff

Geometry and Art in the Modern Middle East
Favoured for its aniconic elements, geometry in Islamic art has been used as a way…
3 min read
Passing Time
“There is nothing more beautiful than to forget oneself,” writes Fouad Elkoury in Passing Time,…
3 min read
Drawing Lines
“Who are we as Lebanese? What has the war triggered in us? How do the…
2 min read
Slapstick Formalism: Process, Project, Object
It’s hard to pin down the type of work that Brad Downey creates – a…
2 min read
New Art New Market
This is a revised edition of lain Robertson’s 2011 book, A New Art From Emerging…
2 min read
Plastic Capitalism
For this well-rounded study of the art world’s visualization of waste, art historian Amanda Boetzkes…
2 min read
Bauhaus – 100 years of bauhaus
As it’s the centenary of the Bauhaus, to which a Bauhaus Imaginate traveling exhibition (to…
2 min read
St Petersburg
MUSEUMS The State Hermitage Museum In any overview of St Petersburg’s museums, it is impossible…
22 min read
Chaouki Choukini: Corpus
Corpus is an unusual take on the works of Lebanese sculptor Chaouki Choukini by art…
2 min read
Pouran Jinchi
In this first monograph on Pouran Jinchi, three critical voices examine the Iranian-American artist’s 25-year-long…
2 min read
The General Stork
In 2013 a migrating white stork named Menes was detained by the Egyptian authorities. The…
2 min read
Reflections: Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa
The British Museum’s recent publication, Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa,…
3 min read