Spotlight

TateShots: Lowry
‘Lowry is Britain’s preeminent painter of the industrial city’ says Tate curator Helen Little, as she introduces the exhibition ‘Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life’. For Lowry, modern pai...

Continuous City: Mapping Arab London
SERPENTINE GALLERY AND QATAR MUSEUMS AUTHORITY COLLABORATE ON ARAB ARTS SEASON IN LONDON Page Views: 1980

THE FUTURE IS HERE: A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Design Museum is collaborating with the UK’s innovation agency, the Technology Strategy Board, to deliver a major new exhibition about the sweeping changes in manufacturing that are transforming our world. Page Views: 1281

Otherwise Occupied – Palestine at Venice
Liceo Artistico Statale di Venezia, Palazzo Ca’ Giustinian Recanati, Dorsoduro 1012 (Accademia), 30123 Venezia, Italia 29 MAY 2013 TO 30 JUNE 2013 Curated by Bruce Ferguson and Rawan Sharaf Otherwise Occupied is an ex...

Bahrain Participates in the Venice Biennale for the first time this June
- an event many call the Olympics of the art world artBahrain spoke to Melissa Enders Bhatia, the curator of Bahrain’s national pavilion about her choices of artists, themes and the process behind mounting such an important c...

The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013
The Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre are proud to present The Future Generation Art Prize@Venice 2013. The exhibition includes the 21 artists, from 16 different countries, who were shortlisted in the second e...

Shafic Abboud by Claude Lemand
I have a great admiration for Shafic Abboud, the foremost Parisian Arab painter of the second half of the 20th century. His paintings are a manifesto for freedom, colour, light and joy, as well as being a permanent bridge betw...

“MEMORY” CHAIR DESIGNED BY BAHRAINI ARTIST RASHID AL KHALIFA BRINGS €4,936 AT HISTORIC HOTEL CRILLON AUCTION IN PARIS
– Unique chair designed and created by al Khalifa fetches nearly ten times pre-sale estimate of €500 – Page Views: 1848

Hakim Alakel is drawing attention
Yemeni artist Hakim Alakel attained a master’s degree in fine arts at Moscow University in the 1980s. And even if he was well known for his allegorical landscape and figurative paintings, his job as an adviser in the Ministry...

Leila’s “Lay of the Land”
Leila Heller, New York contemporary art dealer, dishes with Laura Stewart on her “Hot” artists and reveals some of her future projects. Page Views: 5121