“Saudi Arabia is making its mark on the global contemporary art scene: works by Middle Eastern artists such as Talal Al Zeid and Mohammed Farea are available at Lam Art Gallery in Riyadh, the Empty Quarter photography gallery in Dubai was founded by the Saudi… Read More
The winners of the 2013 Abraaj Capital Art Prize, just announced today – Vartan Avakian, Iman Issa, Huma Mulji, Hrair Sarkissian and Rayyane Tabet – have already started working closely with selected Guest Curator Murtaza Vali to create new works to be exhibited at the… Read More
During Art Basel, two Dubai-based galleries, Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde (participants of last year’s abc in Berlin) and Green Art Gallery were selected to participate in the Art | Statements sector, marking them as the first Gulf region-based galleries in the 43-year history of… Read More
Hyperallergic is looking back trying to remember when people “were first exposed to art in Saudi Arabia. There were few exhibitions worth mentioning. I’m sure there have been other exhibitions that we never heard of because the news — or impact — never left tight-knit… Read More
Rose Issa is a global reference when it comes to contemporary art and artists from Iran and the Arab world. Having lived in Iran, Lebanon, and France, she established Rose Issa Projects in London some twenty years ago and was the first to bring contemporary… Read More
The Women’s Museum is a centre of documentation and exhibition, focused on the historical and cultural roles of women in the UAE. It is concerned with every aspect of women’s experience in thoughts, literature, knowledge, art, culture and heritage. The Women’s Museum aims to discover… Read More
More than half a million pages of Arabic manuscripts and East India Company archives to go online. The Art Newspaper reports that “Qatar is funding a £8.7m project at London’s British Library to make around 500,000 pages available online from the archives of the East… Read More
Visual Arabia 2012 will bring together some of the world’s greatest artists, designers, and creatives in a first-of-its-kind event for the region. Hosted by Dubai-based publishing and events company, Corporate Publishing International (CPI), this creative design conference in the Middle East promises to attract global… Read More
“Novel evokes Middle East’s Twitter revolution, with melting paragraphs and fold-out pages.” – Fast Company – “A structured chaos of stories within stories, impossible to put down.” New York Times “Kapow! Take that linear narratives!” – Creative Review “A playful novel of typographic tricks.” -The… Read More
“There’s an exhibition featuring sci-fi, history, video games, sexuality, soap operas, censorship and a powerful sense of humour at Cornerhouse in Manchester right now. The show is called Subversion and it questions and knocks around whatever assumption you might have about an homogenous ‘Arab world’,… Read More
