Richard Serra’s First Public Work in the Middle East to Anchor MIA Park, Qatar Museums Authority’s New Cultural Destination on the Doha Waterfront, Opening December 2011
Jun 06, 2011The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have received a major gift to support Persian art and culture and related programs at the museums.
Jun 05, 2011Following a major AUD $53 million redevelopment, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney will reopen in March 2012 as a bold, new and significantly expanded Museum. The opening of the new MCA promises to be a highlight on the international art calendar, as the Museum is transformed into a major cultural centre for contemporary art and education.
May 25, 2011DUBAI & LONDON, May 24 2011 / The Third Line has this week raised the bar in Dubai’s fast moving, fast growing arts and culture scene by launching a new space for the region’s talent to be showcased. Featuring artists’ works and profiles, exhibition and event schedules and a book store, The Third Line iPhone app presents the Middle East’s artistic talent to a new, younger and more tech-savvy worldwide audience.
May 24, 2011KAZAKHSTAN / 3rd Marketplace of Creative Arts: Astana “Unity in Diversity†7-8 June 2011 at Palace of Independence, Astana
May 23, 2011SOTHEBY’S LONDON / The Collection, formed over 40 years, is the largest known archive relating to production at the prestigious Dar alâ€KIiswah workshop ever to be offered at auction.
May 06, 2011LONDON / Sotheby’s sale of the Arts of the Islamic World to take place in London on the 6th April will offer an array of beautiful and rare objects, paintings and manuscripts which highlight the achievements of artists and craftsmen from across the Muslim world. The sale is particularly rich in works which reveal the cultural efflorescence which took place during the Middle Ages on the Mediterranean seaboard from Islamic Spain to the Levant.
Apr 01, 2011CHRISTIE'S LONDON / 7 April 2011 / 2010 marked a record year for the category of Islamic Art at Christie’s London, with sales totalling in excess of £30million/$45million/ €34million and a new world auction record for any Islamic work of art established when a 17th century Kirman ‘vase’ carpet fetched £6.2 million, at Christie’s in April.
Mar 21, 2011NEW YORK / Craftsmen from Morocco work on the arches in a courtyard being created at the heart of the Islamic art galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mar 18, 2011AMSTERDAM / 5 April 2011 / International Conference presenting “Islamic†Art in Contemporary Context
Feb 20, 2011TEHRAN / The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art will be hosting the official inauguration of the 3rd Fajr International Festival of Visual Arts here today.
Feb 06, 2011ISTANBUL 11–31 December / Exhibition of over 200 masters in Istanbul today who produce in traditional book arts such as lettering (hatt), gilding (tezhib), coating (kat), irrigation of paper (ebru), miniatures, and binding (cilt) at Fatih Ali Emiri Efendi Cultural Center in Istanbul.
Dec 02, 2010
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