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 …

Exhibition “In Search of Lost Time” at SOAS

The exhibition In Search of Lost Time (not the Proust novel), which runs at the Brunei Gallery, in the School of Oriental & African Studies until the 19th of March, "presents work by 13 artists who seek to reframe conventional interpretations of time in the Gulf." The  Arabic title of the exhibition, Urgent Memory is apt, as the exhibition …