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‘VICTIMS OF WAR’

DUBAI/ Pro Art Gallery, the gallery that celebrates innovative and cutting edge art from the Arab world and beyond, is hosting the non political and non governmental photographic project, VICTIMS OF WAR. The exhibition, is showcasing selected photographic artworks by Australian TV News Anchor in the Middle East, Hermoine Macura, who has spent over a decade covering the Arab world both in front and behind the camera.

Nur: Light in Art and Science from the Islamic World

The Focus-Abengoa Foundation announced the organization of a major travelling exhibition of Islamic art and culture, spanning more than ten centuries and including artworks from throughout the Islamic world, which will open in Seville this October, and travel to the Dallas Museum of Art, USA in spring 2014.

NUQTA App To Launch During The London Shubbak Festival

London / NUQTA, led by award-winning graphic designer Mukhtar Sanders and professional calligrapher Soraya Syed, is the world’s first App linking designers, artists, calligraphers, researchers and enthusiasts using Arabic. Following on from a successful unveiling at Art Week in Dubai, the app and website project will launch at the Edge of Arabia in London during the Shubbak Festival, a window on contemporary Arab culture, on Saturday 29th June.

Susan Hefuna: Rasm – Of Wood, Silver And Gold

LONDON / This is Susan Hefuna’s second solo exhibition in London and features a selection of her most recent work, including gold-plated brass drawings, silvered-bronze wall sculptures and her signature latticework wooden screens (or mashrabiyas).

‘The Arrangement’ by Amir H. Fallah

DUBAI / The Third Line is pleased to welcome back Amir H. Fallah, who will be exhibiting a selection of works in the Project Space, with a solo show to follow in December this year. In The Arrangement, Fallah works with mixed media and collage as his signature style, presenting works of floral arrangements appropriated from the Dutch/Flemish renaissance tradition of floral still-life painting.

‘Barzakh’ by Sami Al Turki

BASEL / At VOLTA9, Basel's cutting-edge art fair for new and emerging art, Athr Gallery presents Saudi artist Sami Al-Turki's works from his latest photographic series ‘Barzakh', inspired by the artist's quest to find a home for himself in his own country. After having lived and studied abroad for a number of years, the artist made the decision to return and settle in his home country of Saudi Arabia, a desert country for the large part that consists mainly of empty land.