The exhibition's opening on November 8 brings a 6 pm tour of the show, followed by a talk with four GCC artists — Khalid Al Gharaballi, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid and Amal Khalaf — facilitated by Reem Fadda, the associate curator of Middle
Eastern Art at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.
This omission came to a head at an event last week at the Guggenheim, in which Reem Fadda, an associate curator of Middle
Eastern art at the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, endeavored to «delve into the history» of the UAE art scene.
MIDDLE
EASTERN ART A quick glance at three interesting shows in Dubai this autumn throws up a plethora of talent.
Including: «A Pictorial Encyclopedia of The Oriental Arts» 2 vols in slipcase, edited by Shoten, publ by Crown; «Oriental Cloisonne and Other Enamels» by Chu; «Japanese and Oriental Ceramics» by Gorham; «Half the World», edited by Toynbee; «Chinese Jade of Five Centuries» by Hartman; «Chinese Export Porcelain» by Lunsingh - Scheurler; «Treasures of Chinese Glass Work Shops» by Asiantiques; «A History of Far
Eastern Art» by Lee; «The Art of Japan» by Kidder; «Japan: A History in Art» by Smith; «China: A History in Art» by Smith & Weng; «Jade of the East» by Wills; «Wolf Kahn, Paintings & Pastels», 2 vols in slipcase, Ameringer - Yohe Fine Art; «Near Eastern Mythology» by Hamlyn; «Vasarely» by Diehl; «The Drawings of Milton Avery» by Taplinger; «Milton Avery» by Haskell; «Wolf Kahn, Landscape Painter» by Sawin; «Wolf Kahn, The City as Landscape» by Ameringer / McEnery / Yohe; «Hans Hofmann», ibid; «Picasso at Work at Home» by Schiff; «Wondrous Strange, The Wyeth Tradition»; «Fletcher Martin» by Cooke; PLUS (14 vols set) Cooper - Hewitt Museum Art & Antique Guidebooks; PLUS several gallery exhibition catalogs.Read more
The Inaugural Exhibition of this gallery of Middle
Eastern art is devoted to a painter who seamlessly fuses Iranian traditions of miniatures and calligraphy with the dynamic strokes and textured surfaces of western abstraction.
The remarklable journey of Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, a pioneer in contemporay Middle
Eastern art
She covers contemporary art and culture for magazines, with an emphasis on contemporary Middle
Eastern art.
Like the mandalas of Tantric
Eastern art, which helped teach Noland «what a circle could do,» these concentric abstractions came to represent both ends and beginnings — especially for Noland himself.
Seminars, site visits, individual meetings, and roundtable discussions will be led by the following faculty: Bruce Altshuler (Director, Program in Museum Studies, New York University), Holly Block (Executive Director, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York), Nicholas Cullinan (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Reem Fadda (Associate Curator of Middle
Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York), Kate Fowle (Chief Curator, Garage, Moscow, and Director - at - Large, ICI), Dóra Hegyi (Project Leader, tranzit.hu, Budapest), Todd Levin (art advisor), Agustín Pérez Rubio (independent curator and art critic), and Jenny Schlenzka (Associate Curator, MoMA PS1, New York), among others.
We were happy to accept her view, given that Meg is the pioneer at
the eastern art market, one of the leading gallerists in China today.
Ghada Amer, Feminist Provocateur of Middle
Eastern Art, on Experimenting With an Ancient Medium
Participants include Leeza Ahmady, independent curator and Director of Asian Contemporary Art Week; Thomas Berghuis, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Curator of Chinese Art, Guggenheim Museum; Melissa Chiu, Director, Asia Society Museum and Vice President, Global Arts Programming, Asia Society; Pablo León de la Barra, Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator, Latin America; and Reem Fadda, Associate Curator, Middle
Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project, Guggenheim Museum.
The exhibition, co-curated by MIA Director Dr. Julia Gonnella and Rania Abdellatif, draws on MIA's own spectacular collection, shown alongside loans from other world - renowned international museums, including the Louvre in Paris, the Museum of Ancient Near
Eastern Art in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, other significant Qatar Museums (QM) collections such as the Orientalist Collection, as well as the Qatar National Library and Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Museum.
She is credited with exhibiting the first show of abstract painting in the Arab world, in Beirut in 1947, though her greatest triumphs in the context of this show seem to be in her sculptural work and representational painting, with her charismatic self - portrait deftly breaching what the catalogue refers to as the traditions of «non-representational Middle
Eastern art.»
on Ohio University
Eastern Art Gallery, Call for Submissions: Solo Exhibition — Drawing - Based Studio Practice
This spring, the Guggenheim is pleased to welcome the following participating artists in the series: Mohammed Kazem (b. 1969, United Arab Emirates) Tuesday, February 26 Zarina (b. 1937, India) Friday, March 1 Danh Vo (b. 1975, Vietnam) Tuesday, March 19 Mohammed Kazem and Reem Fadda Tuesday, February 26, 6:30 pm Watch the live webcast on ustream.tv / Guggenheim RSVP and see local viewing times on Facebook Reem Fadda, Associate Curator, Middle
Eastern Art, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, and recently appointed curator for the National Pavilion of the United Arab Emirates at the Venice Biennale, presents «The Contemporary History of the UAE Art Scene.»
Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin's hotel signs illuminate the aisle, drawing fairgoers in, but inside this booth a strong collection of works, many by artists of Middle Eastern descent, is one of the few showings of Middle
Eastern art at the fair.
This engaging, topical subject will be examined by Maria Sukkar and Maryam Eisler, two art collectors and patrons who have particular insight into Middle
Eastern art.
«He is able to reference his knowledge of Western and
Eastern art history to create his own aesthetic.»
His work is part of many prominent private and public collections including The Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle
Eastern Art, New York; The British Museum, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Mohammed Afkhami Collection, Dubai, Huma Kabakci Collection, Istanbul; SYZYGY, New York; The Farjam Collection, Dubai; Zoroastrian Cultural Institute, Paris and the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran.
Reem Fadda, Associate Curator for Middle
Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project Ms. Fadda is an active curator and cultural practitioner, focusing on contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory and practice in the Middle East.
Seminars, site visits, individual meetings, and roundtable discussions will be led by the following faculty: Bruce Altshuler (Director, Program in Museum Studies, New York University), Nicholas Cullinan (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art), Reem Fadda (Associate Curator of Middle
Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York), Kate Fowle (Chief Curator, Garage, Moscow, and Director - at - Large, ICI), Dóra Hegyi (Project Leader, tranzit.hu, Budapest), Todd Levin (art advisor), Chus Martínez (Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio, New York), Gabriela Rangel (Director of Visual Arts and Curator, Americas Society, New York), and Jenny Schlenzka (Associate Curator, MoMA PS1, New York), among others.
Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt is organized by Edward Bleiberg, Senior Curator, Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near
Eastern Art, and Yekaterina Barbash, Associate Curator of Egyptian Art, Brooklyn Museum.
The implication is that for Art Basel Miami Beach directors, Middle
Eastern art is not without its issues.
Within its 2015 exhibition programme, Arte Fiera Collecting presents the largest ever exhibition in Italy dedicated to the Middle
Eastern art scene.
After the success of last year's exhibition The Empty Pedestal dedicated to art in post-Soviet nations, Arte Fiera Collecting continues its exhibition schedule in 2015 with an extensive overview of the Middle
Eastern art scene.
The works are rife with clichéd symbols, such as Arabic calligraphy, fragments of ceramic artifacts, images of camels and political cartoons, in an attempt to create work that will meet Western expectations for a brand of contemporary Middle
Eastern art much in the same way that smiling Mao and Panda paintings became the brand for post-Cultural Revolutionary art in China in the 1980's.
Reem Fadda joined the Guggenheim in 2010 as Associate Curator, Middle
Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project.
Artist Talk Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:00 pm Alexander Gray Associates 508 West 26 Street # 215 New York NY 10001 Reception for the artist to follow Hassan Sharif, artist, co-founder, The Flying House, Dubai Reem Fadda, Associate Curator, Middle
Eastern Art, Guggenheim Museum Paulina Kolczynska, art historian and curator, contributor to the monograph Hassan Sharif — Works 1973 - 2011
The Inaugural Exhibition of this gallery of Middle
Eastern art is...
Sculpture made a rather late entry into the canon of Middle
Eastern art production.
Sotheby's holds its first exhibition of Middle
Eastern art in Asia with a presentation of works by Reza Derakshani and...
The 2014 Independent Vision Curatorial Award Nominating Committee includes: Zdenka Badovinac: Director, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana (Slovenia); Iwona Blazwick: Director, Whitechapel Gallery (UK); Zoe Butt; Executive Director and Curator, Sàn Art (Vietnam); Rosina Cazali: Independent Curator (Guatemala); Reem Fadda: Associate Curator, Middle
Eastern Art, Abu Dhabi Project, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (UAE); Gridthiya Gaweewong; Artistic Director, Jim Thompson Art Center (Thailand); Abdellah Karroum: Founding Artistic Director of L'appartement 22 (Qatar); Koyo Kouoh: Artistic Director, Raw Material Company (Senegal); Michy Marxuach: Co-director of Beta - Local (Puerto Rico); Riason Naidoo: Independent Curator (South Africa); Valerie Cassel Oliver: Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (US); José Roca: Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Tate Modern, London, and Artistic Director of FLORA, Bogotá, Colombia; Claire Tancons: Curator (US); Philip Tinari: Director, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (China).
She said that the Contemporary Istanbul fair was one of the best examples for linking Western and
Eastern art.
Her audacious gamble, back in the early 1980s, to establish herself as a major international dealer specialising in Middle
Eastern art, in the notoriously - cut throat Manhattan art scene has paid off.
For although increasing attention is paid to art from this region on the international level — with biennials in Istanbul and Sharjah, Catherine David's ongoing project «Contemporary Arab Representations,» and the visibility of the Middle
Eastern art - and - culture magazine Bidoun — there is still a paucity of such exhibitions in London.
Although, this show is very similar to previous one in other fairs (i.e. FIAC 2017), it is a very efficient sample of the best to be offered by the Middle -
Eastern art scene.
Backbone of the Middle
Eastern art market, the omnipresent gallery is again presenting a selection of the best of the Lebanese scene and beyond with a group show featuring works by Walid Raad (Lebanon), Marwan Rechmaoui (Lebanon), Etel Adnan (Lebanon), but also Khalil Rabah (Palestine) or Yto Barrada (France) and many more.
Leila Heller was pleased to be invited as a guest speaker at Brown University to present «Contemporary Middle
Eastern Art» in conjunction with Doctor Shiva Balaghi's lecture «War Revolution & Art.»
Managing Director Maliha Al - Tabari opened a second ARTSPACE location in London in 2012 in order to further drive Middle
Eastern art forward and provide artists with a link between the East and West.
The sale is being staged by the Auction Room, which was formed earlier this year by Sotheby's former managing director of Europe, George Bailey, and is directed by Janet Rady, an independent expert in Middle
Eastern art.
16:45 Semantics of Living Art / Marrakech Biennale as Case Study, Reem Fadda, former Associate Curator of Middle
Eastern Art for the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project
Sam Francis absorbed influences from the many places he lived and worked throughout his extraordinary life, blending American Abstract Expressionism with European Art Informel and
Eastern art in his celebrated paintings and prints.
Guggenheim and Rockbund museums call off Middle
Eastern art show New York's Guggenheim Museum and the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai have called off a planned exhibition of Middle
Eastern art, reports ArtNet News.
At Princeton he studied painting with James C. Davis and Far
Eastern Art with George Rowley, for whom he wrote his thesis on Yuan dynasty landscape painting.
Experts in Middle
Eastern art, Fellrath and Bardaouil are mounting a show on pan-Arabic modernism for the Art Dubai fair in late March, while their exhibition «Art et Liberté: Rupture, War and Surrealism in Egypt (1938 — 1948)» travels to Stockholm's Moderna Museet in April, and their monograph on the late Lebanese painter Paul Guiragossian awaits publication by SilvanaEditoriale, also in March.
On the one hand his abstractions recall the geometric abstractions of constructivism and on the other he is referencing concepts of the accidental in Far
Eastern art.
The superb permanent collections hold Old Master paintings, British art (including work by Bristol School artists),
Eastern art, ceramics, silverware and glassware, Egyptian mummies and Assyrian reliefs, archaeological artefacts and natural history exhibits.
As a specialized form of international art,
Eastern art has then gone on to catalyze new movements in Western form.
You Are Here: The Psychogeography of the City, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC, NY Guggenheim You Tube Play, shortlist, Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY It's Personal, Tomasulo Gallery, Union County College, Union, NJ 1001: The Narrative Tradition in Middle
Eastern Art, William Paterson University Gallery, Wayne, NJ