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The Art of the Matter

09 Wednesday Jul 2014

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Raya Wolfsun

Raya Wolfsun talks and words flow into multi-directional thoughts with the fluidity of mercury on a table. You try to catch them so as to apportion them into comprehensible slots of the conventional. But they escape. Then, she smiles and asks, “You want to know how I brand myself, right?” That fluidity also speaks for how Wolfsun treats her passions. She calls herself an artist and a scholar and reasons that those roles are quite interlinked. “I wish there was a word that could integrate both, because to me, they are heavily intertwined. In fact, all my life, it’s been strange for me to try to be one or the other,” she says. An expert in Islamic astrolabes, Wolfsun has spent many a day marvelling at the impressive collection of astrolabes at the Museum of Islamic Art, and poring over several books at the MIA library on the subject.

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A Conversation with Shahzia Sikander and Her Site-Specific Work for the 2013 Sharjah Biennial

01 Monday Apr 2013

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Shahzia Sikandar

Entitled Re:emerge – Towards a New Cultural Cartography, this year’s Sharjah Biennial inspired by the concept of the courtyard in Islamic architecture. Annabel Treon speaks with acclaimed Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander about her site-specific installation.

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A Victorian in Arabia

24 Sunday Feb 2013

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David RobertsDuring the late 18th and early 19th centuries, following Napoleon’s conquest of Europe and the opening of overland trade routes to India for foreigners (then countries hardly visited by Westerners), artists and archaeologists from Britain and France in particular were drawn to the region. Following the example of so many British artists before him, David Roberts (1796–1864) regularly travelled in Europe in search of new subjects. But unlike most of his contemporaries, he travelled extensively in the Middle East and North Africa, under conditions that at the time were often arduous, dangerous, and potentially injurious to the health of a northern European.

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