Emirates Open Skies, January 2020 The world’s biggest art fair showcasing work made by those who are self-taught or outside the professional art mainstream in some way, the Outsider Art Fair celebrates exciting new artists […]
The National, September 2018 They are some of the defining images of our times. When the unbearable pictures of a three-year-old Syrian boy, lifeless on the shore of a Turkish beach, made the front pages […]
Open Skies, March 2018 The lights dim, the audience quietens in expectation. Suddenly, amid a riot of colour and stirring music, a true, timeless icon looms large on huge screens, drawing everyone deep into the […]
Vision, August 2017 The aim is laudable: to promote and celebrate the many accomplishments of Middle Eastern women via a “peacebuilding exhibition”. The location, though, is absolutely spectacular: 31 of the region’s premier contemporary women artists displaying their work […]
The National, July 2017 One of Fahrelnissa Zeid’s former students is trying to explain the artist’s legacy. “She was the East and the West, combined in harmony,” the student says in a film that accompanies […]