Paper, politics and poetry: why artists' books from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia deserve a closer look
British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists
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British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists
Two works by artist Ayman Baalbaki have been pulled from Christie's Middle Eastern Art sale in London.
Please join the Middle East Institute's Arts and Culture Center for a panel conversation featuring two award winning photographers, Imane Djamil (Morocco) and Fethi Sahraoui (Algeria), whose works are featured in MEI Art Gallery's current exhibition,
His artistic approach is based on abstract signs and compositions - devoid of actual textual meaning - which he refers to as Calligrams or Graphemes.
Hassan Hajjaj – the hip-hop artist Facebook Juliet Highet. Morocco is Africa’s Capital of Culture this year. Photographer and designer Hassan Hajjaj says: “I am bringing the caravan of Morocco to the world. My work is from Morocco but also London.” Of Moroccan birth, he has lived in London since he was 12, though he has a home, gallery and shop in the Medina of Marrakesh. “I see myself as a human being first, and then as a Moroccan, a North African, and as a Londoner.” In his two galleries/shops in Marrakesh and London, he displays work such as lanterns and ceramics by tradition...