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 …

Bilqis by Kamal Boullata

Palestinian artist and art historian Kamal Boullata's latest body of work, Bilqis, is running at Meem Gallery until July 31.The series of fifteen abstract paintings comprising five triptychs borrows its name from the name of the queen of Sheba. The exhibition takes up the myth of Bilqis’ visit to King Solomon's court, where she mistook …