Articles tagged with: Art
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Sunday, 19 May, 2013
Rachid Koraïchi is one of the most prominent contemporary Arab visual artists, and has achieved international recognition for his use of Arabic calligraphy. He offers a modern slant on ancient, sometimes forgotten, artistic practices, and conveys a kind of spiritual up-lifting, a glimpse into eternity, through his refined, exquisite art. In a series entitled Les Maîtres Invisibles (The Invisible Masters), Korïachi uses calligraphy, symbols and ciphers from a range of languages and cultures to...
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Saturday, 4 May, 2013
Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat—For the first time ever, a major Western museum, the Louvre, has provided a permanent home for an Islamic art collection. The Louvre has provided massive new gallery space to house what Louvre Director, Henri Loyrette, describes as being “one of the richest collections of Islamic art in the world.”
Already the most popular museum in the world, with nearly nine million visitors in the past year alone, the new Islamic galleries are set to draw even more people ...
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Friday, 26 Apr, 2013
It takes a strong-minded, talented, and highly intelligent woman to challenge the pre-conceived notions of the male-dominated mid-twentieth century art world, particularly for an A...
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Tuesday, 23 Apr, 2013
Million-dollar art sales are happening at the moment. You might ask what is so new about that, even in a time of recession. This is contemporary Arab art, and the location is the G...
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Aleppo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Khalifa has a message for the people of ravaged Aleppo: ‘Tomorrow this will be beautiful’.
“It just came into my head one day as I was looki...
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