From Mathaf to Madrid

The exhibition Looking at the World Around You: Contemporary Works from Qatar Museums is being held from 9 February to 19 June 2016 at the Santander Art Gallery in Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, the "first major loan exhibition in Europe of works from Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Contemporary Art in Doha."   This selection, more …

UK’s Most Comprehensive Exhibition of Arab Art

A year long exhibition series, billed as “the broadest single overview of Arab art to be shown in the UK to date”, will be on display in Whitechapel. The exhibitions draw from the the Barjeel Art Foundation collection. The first exhibition, running from 8 September-16 December, “explores the emergence and development of a modern Arab art …

Etel Adnan Exhibition Opens Today

An exhibition by Lebanese-born artist and writer Etel Adnan opens today at Galerie Lelong. The exhibition runs through May 9, 2015. Etel Adnan's work has been widely exhibited but she has enjoyed something of a revival in recent years as this article in the Wall Street Journal notes: "The fact that artistic renown has descended …