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Arts & Crafts of the Islamic Lands

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, says, “Through my school for the traditional arts, I have tried to do what I can to continue the living traditions of the world’s sacred and traditional art forms. It is all too easily forgotten how crucial traditions are in handing on the immense richness of human knowledge, wisdom and skill, and giving them new life and new application. I hope that The School’s...

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Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist
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Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist (3 July–22 September 2013) is, for Tate Modern, a ground-breaking event and for El-Salahi, a retrospective that brings together work over five decades. This first major exhibition of the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi in the UK brings together 100 works from across more than five decades of his international career, this retrospective will highlight one of the most significant figures in...

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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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Rachid Koraïchi wins the 2011 Jameel Prize

Algeria-born Rachid Koraïchi has won the GBP 25,000 Jameel Prize for a selection of embroidered cloth banners from a series entitled Les Maitres invisibles (The Invisible Masters), 2008, writes SAJID RIZVI. Martin Roth, Director of the V&A, Hasan Jameel and Ed Vaizey MP, presented Rachid Koraïchi with the prize at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 12 September 2011. The V&A’s Jameel Prize 2011 exhibition...

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Islamic Art VI 2009

Islamic Art Volume VI (2009) looks primarily toward the Muslim East, with studies on early metalwork, Ottoman tilework of the 20th century, in a setting in the north of England, no less, and on classical carpets collected by the Medici in Florence. Three studies consider material forms Muslim princes promoted to project power, including architecture and book illustration. Buy this book EDITORS’ NOTE Preparing our customary Editors’...

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