Known as a pop artist from Kuwait, introducing pop art with an oriental twist for over 7 years, Kuwait artist Hamad Al Saab is launching his first solo exhibition “Fragments of Memories” that marks a new exciting beginning for Al Saab separated from ‘Hamad&Ali’. The anticipated exhibition, titled ‘Fragments of Memories’ doesn’t only introduce Al…
Author: Mashaael Basheer
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76 Galleries Made it to Art Dubai 2013!
After five months of deep, intensive search to only select the best; Art Dubai finally announce participating galleries in the fairs’ 7th edition March 2013. The line-up includes some of the most dynamic art spaces from the Middle-East, Asia and Africa as well as leading galleries from across Europe and America. New international entrants, including Greenaway…
Syrian Artists Bare Their Thoughts in ‘True Colors’
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. Albert Bike “True Colors of Society, Hope and Survival” a group exhibition of 3 young Syrian artists Anas Homsi, Fadi Al-Hamwi and Wissam Shaabi at Joanna Seikaly Gallery, Beirut – Lebanon, featuring a collection…
Christie’s Dubai Auction Hits Five Million USD!
Official results are out! Christie’s, the international auction house, achieved $5,900,350 sales in Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art auctions held in Dubai on October 23 and 24, 2012. Part I of Christie’s Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art auctions reached US$3,640,100 with 96% of lots sold, half of them above high estimate. Bidders from…
Janet Rady Focus of the Month: Rokni Haerizadeh
Janet Rady Fine Art is excited to present Iranian artistRokni Haerizadeh’s painting ‘Khosrow and Shirin’ (2009) as the focus of November’s Artist Focus newsletter. Rokni’s painting eloquently embodies an attachment with Iranian mythology and tradition coupled with a sarcastic view of the ambiguities of life in Iran today. In Rokni’s ‘Khosrow and Shirin’ we see the lovers from the Shahnameh epic comically…
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