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Music from the Silk Road event
Jul21

Music from the Silk Road event

Five artists, including known musical figures on London’s creative scene, perform a lunchtime concert in a capsule presentation of music from the Middle East and its eastward extensions along the Silk Road ancient and modern, writes The Middle East in Europe. ‘Summertime in Distant Lands,’ part of an ongoing and well regarded Music@One series, is a collaboration between SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies),...

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Istanbul’s Trocadero ‘revived’ in art
Jan23

Istanbul’s Trocadero ‘revived’ in art

Deniz Gül 2013-14: Self. Photo: Jeanne Dunning, courtesy of the artist. The Nesrin Esirtgen Collection Art Space in Istanbul is showing a group exhibition, Trocadero, 23 January to 29 March 2014 featuring works by Ali Miharbi, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Deniz Gül, İris Ergül, İz Öztat, Lawrence Weiner, Leyla Gediz, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Özlem Altın, Sarkis, Serhat Kiraz, Sun Ra and Tuncay Çavdar. Curated by Nazlı Gürlek, the exhibition brings...

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The Jameel Prize 2009

Jameel Prize curator Tim Stanley, Senior Curator in the V&A’s Asian Department, offers the background to the Jameel Prize after its launch in 2009. By TIM STANLEY On 7 July 2009 the first Jameel Prize was awarded to the artist Afruz Amighi, who was born in Iran in 1974 but who has lived in New York since she was three. Amighi’s winning work, 1001 Pages, is a beautiful shadow piece, made by cutting a complex design into a...

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Catching up on Islamic art

Art museums are scrambling to attract more audiences for Islamic art, both historical materials and contemporary art from the wide expanse of the Middle East and North Africa region, Central Asia and the Caucasus, writes SAJID RIZVI. The aim ostensibly is to build up visitor numbers and public understanding of Islamic cultures and civilisations. Can this increased interest in Islamic art and culture substitute for a greater commitment...

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Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum

Following its highly successful collaboration with The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to stage Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and Tsarina, the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) continues the successful relationship into 2006 with a major exhibition on Islamic art. Beyond the Palace Walls, Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum showcases the cream of Islamic art from one of the largest and most renowned...

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Two artists in London: Selvi Tektas and Tracey Emin

Sajid Rizvi of Eastern Art Report talked to two young Turkish artists living in England, Selvi Tektaş aka Tektash and Tracey Emin. True to form, during the brief conversation, Tracey Emin dropped a broad hint about her intended creative trajectory that was to propel her into fame in later years. “I don’t feel that I fit into any category anyway and I certainly wouldn’t say I’m ‘Inner City’,”...

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