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Category Archives: Exhibitions

Exploring Life as a Muslim Woman

09 Tuesday Apr 2013

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As everything gradually moves online – from reading and shopping to watching television and talking to friends and family – the art world is keeping in step. While physical exhibitions, museums and art fairs still play a major role when it comes to visual art, other art forms are arguably more suited to online presentation, which allows access to a far wider audience than would ever have been thought possible two decades ago. Launched last month in honor of International Women’s Day, Muslima is an online exhibition of fine art, photography and writing from women around the globe, exploring what it means to be a Muslim woman in today’s world.

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See also: Muslima Online Exhibition and Muslim Women’s Art and Voices

London’s V&A Links with the Qatar Museums Authority Taking Art Across Continents

07 Sunday Apr 2013

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V&A Director Martin Roth

Martin Roth gazes out of his airy office onto peaceful London gardens bathed in early spring sunshine. The director of the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) is just back from one of many trips to the Gulf he has undertaken in recent years to foster links with what he calls a “completely fascinating part of the world”. If springtime London feels a long way from Qatar, where the perky, German-born Roth signed off a new exhibition with the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), then he’s not showing it.

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YARAT Presents Works of Love Me, Love Me Not Exhibitors in La Biennale di Venezia

04 Thursday Apr 2013

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YARAT

Love Me, Love Me Not is an unprecedented exhibition of contemporary art from Azerbaijan and its neighbours, featuring recent work by 17 artists from Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, Russia, and Georgia. Produced and supported by YARAT, a not-for-profit contemporary art organisation based in Baku, and curated by Dina Nasser-Khadivi,. The exhibition will be open to the public from June 1st 2013 until November 24th 2013 at Tesa 111, Arsenale Nord, at The 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.

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