Stories

Institutions without Curators: Finding New Perspectives

Across Four Cities: Rethinking Modernist Art in the SWANA Region

Objects, Domestic and Everyday

Modularity and Modulation: On the Subtle Art of Sarah Almehairi

Helen Khal: Luminous Abstraction and the Feminine Voice in Arab Modernism (1923-2009)

Hamed Abdalla: The Revolutionary Letterist of Modern Arab Art

Truth In Memory: A critical commentary on the juxtaposition of memory and truth in the context of four artists from The Dubai Collection

Untold Stories: Exploring the Use of Narrative in the Work of Aya Haidar

Art Spaces not IRL: The Rise of Digital Museums

Art Spaces without Storage: The contemporary burden of “stuff”

New Ways of Artmaking: Contemporary Art after the 1979 Iranian Revolution

Artistic Mission: The Role of Pioneering Arab Women Artists in Modern Arab Art

Female Arab artists of the 20th century are coming into their own for their indelible contribution to the history of Modern Arab art

The Bride (Undated) and Motherhood (1987)

“I was born in a very modest place, therefore, I paint children, mothers, families, I paint misery, birth, death, and I paint the noise. I paint the tight-knotted groups that are lost, scarred, expelled, not knowing where is their next destination, I paint the neighborhoods which witnessed war, and hunger. Fear, genocide, siege, illness and death, from all of these ingredients I explode and I paint”. Paul Guiragossian, 1984 [1]

Echoes of Trauma and Identity in Syrian Contemporary Art

The practices of Fateh Moudarres and Safwan Dahoul are almost half a century apart. Whilst the artists share obvious connections to the Syrian cultural and social landscape, their works resonate with universal themes of existentialism, trauma, and national identity.