Art

Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Musings on a Major Exhibition: Women Defining Women at LACMA

Philip Grant took a look at a vast Los Angeles art exhibition that presents 75 independent Arab and...

26 JUNE 2023 • By Philip Grant
Olafur Eliasson’s Curious Desert Contrasts Qatar and Iceland

Olafur Eliasson’s Curious Desert Contrasts Qatar and Iceland

Safae Daoudi takes in the scope of Scandinavian artist Olafur Eliasson's Curious Desert exhibition in Doha.

4 JUNE 2023 • By Safae Daoudi
Salman Toor

Salman Toor

Artist Salman Toor paints immigrants and addresses the treatment of brown men and young people in public and...

1 MAY 2023 • By TMR
The Gaze of the Sci-fi Wahabi

The Gaze of the Sci-fi Wahabi

Author of "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky," Sophia Al-Maria reimagines the future of the Gulf region...

2 APRIL 2023 • By Sophia Al-Maria
Doha Street Artist Mubarak Al-Malik’s Fabulous Journey

Doha Street Artist Mubarak Al-Malik’s Fabulous Journey

Qatari street artist Mubarak Al-Malik stays true to his homeland's heritage and traditions as he takes his signature...

2 APRIL 2023 • By Christina Paschyn
The Skinny on Qatar’s National Museum

The Skinny on Qatar’s National Museum

Impressive art, films, sounds and smells among the ultra modern and ancient treasures housed at the National Museum...

2 APRIL 2023 • By TMR
Nazanin Pouyandeh

Nazanin Pouyandeh

The featured artist for March is Franco-Iranian painter Nazanin Pouyandeh, whose rich figurative paintings are showing in two...

5 MARCH 2023 • By TMR
Displacement, Migration are at the Heart of Istanbul Exhibit

Displacement, Migration are at the Heart of Istanbul Exhibit

Jennifer Hattam reviews "After the Birds: Utopia" at Istanbul's Sadberk Hanım Museum — an exhibition inspired by refugees.

13 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Jennifer Hattam
Lahib Jaddo—An Iraqi Artist in the Diaspora

Lahib Jaddo—An Iraqi Artist in the Diaspora

Mischa Geracoulis interviews Texas-based multimedia artist Lahib Jaddo on her complex relationship with Iraq.

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By Mischa Geracoulis
Bedazzled: Iran’s Rebel Feminists at London’s Curve Gallery

Bedazzled: Iran’s Rebel Feminists at London’s Curve Gallery

Malu Halasa tours the exuberant exhibition from artist Soheila Sokhanvari that celebrates strong Iranian women.

30 JANUARY 2023 • By Malu Halasa
On Lebanon and Lamia Joreige’s “Uncertain Times”

On Lebanon and Lamia Joreige’s “Uncertain Times”

Arie Amaya-Akkermans reflects on Lamia Joreige's "Uncertain Times," which represents the Lebanese wars and their aftermath.

23 JANUARY 2023 • By Arie Amaya-Akkermans
The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art

The Creative Resistance in Palestinian Art

Malu Halasa reviews 12 of 40 Palestinian, Arab and international artists showing in the third annual Ramallah Art...

26 DECEMBER 2022 • By Malu Halasa
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