Champ of the Camp comes to London
Champ of the Camp, which takes the familiar and failsafe route of art to pinpoint effectively what mainstream media often fail to do, is due for screening by Crossway Foundation Thursday 7 May at Edge of Arabia aka EOA.Projects in London. The pioneering full-length documentary, which premiered at Dubai film festival in 2013, is an exquisitely bitter-sweet portrayal of the multitudes of people, mainly from South Asia, who have toiled...
Powerless amidst Iraq ‘cultural cleansing’
UNESCO’s press conference in Paris 27 February 2015 after ISIL’s destruction of the Mosul Museum and other sites in Iraq was a sobering event, wherein Secretary General Irina Bokova outlined how international organisations such as UNESCO are powerless when faced with what she called ‘cultural cleansing’ in the embattled country. The story in neighbouring Syria is similar. UNESCO now wants the International...
Ceramic focus in Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture
An early 13th century Iranian ceramic plate that has been the focus of speculation over the years by academics far and wide is one of the highlights of The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture on 3 December 2014. Dr Oya Pancaroğlu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, will deliver the lecture, ‘A Horse by a Pond and Other Congruities in Medieval Iranian...
Breaking, reconstructing the circle
Artists from Southeast Asia feature in a London showing (28 October-8 November 2014) of a selection of works from Singapore’s One East Asia gallery. In an event significantly focused on artists from the Philippines and reflective of a diversity of styles within that frame, artists from elsewhere in the area figure as well. Alongside Philippine artists Andres Barrioquinto, Mark Lewis Higgins, Renato Orara and Mark Valenzuela, the...
GBP 2.37 million realised in Parasol Unit fund-raising sales
London gallery Parasol Unit’s 10th anniversary fund-raising auction at Sotheby’s raised more than GBP 2 million and set new records for some artists. A total of 31 works donated by leading contemporary artists, including Chris Ofili, Antony Gormley, Michaël Borremans and Luc Tuymans, realised GBP 2,092,250 in the auction, Towards Tomorrow, on 18 October 2014. The enthusiasm in the auction room was reflected in the fact...
Glasgow to have new arts and humanities graduate school
Doctoral researchers in Scotland are set to benefit from a “unique” GBP 16.8 million initiative launched 1 October 2014 to help train the next generation of professionals working in the arts and humanities. The Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH), the University of Glasgow says, is the world’s first national graduate school for the arts and humanities, servicing 1,500 PhD students in the arts and...