• Features

Performing History: Politics and Poetry in Arles

This year Les Rencontres d'Arles demonstrates how photography is a medium that constantly reinvents itself to reflect the complexities, even the absurdities, of sociopolitical reality.

• By
  Ela Bittencourt
• Aug 2, 2017 5:08 pm

• Features

Against the Widening Gulf: Arab Art in Tehran

Mohsen Gallery has taken up the historic task of introducing contemporary Arab art to Iran with “Spheres of Influence,” a group show organized by New York-based curator Lila Nazemian, on view through …

• By
  Rahel Aima
• May 6, 2016 11:42 am

• Features

Compelling Banality: Fact and Fiction at Migrating Forms

This year's edition of Migrating Forms offered a program of challenging works that are arguably even more thought-provoking in their strange combination.

• By
  Whitney Mallett
• Mar 16, 2016 11:12 am

• Market

2015 Armory Week Art Fair Cheat Sheet

Armory Week has returned! Here’s a rundown on next week’s most important fairs.  Armory Show March 5–8 With an entire week of fairs dedicated to its name, the Armory Show is the largest of them all…

• By
  Hannah Ghorashi
• Feb 27, 2015 10:28 am

• Reviews

Huguette Caland

Portraying the nude body and female sexuality has long proved problematic for Middle Eastern artists, particularly women. But Lebanese artist Huguette Caland’s confidence in rendering these subjects…

• By
  Austin Considine
• Jan 12, 2015 3:01 pm

• Features

Sotheby’s Tests Middle East Contemporary Art Market

Sotheby's second sale of modern and contemporary art in Doha is expected to bring four times as much as its first, in 2009. Including 47 works, the sale is expected to fetch up to $16.6 million. The…

• By
  Brian Boucher
• Apr 18, 2013 6:10 pm