Exhibit of foreign artist living in Kuwait opens Sunday, December 4, 7pm

I have two artworks included in this exhibit, hope you can make it!

Egyptian protesters are devising ingenious ways to protect themselves!

I love these goggles!

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How I Learned to Stop Fearing and Love Exotic Art - opens at CAP on Nov. 20th

Celebrated artists from the Middle East and North Africa represented at JAMM’s inaugural exhibition in Kuwait

Strategic art advisory JAMM to hold an exhibition in Kuwait of 40 artworks by Contemporary Arab and Iranian artists

JAMM, an independent art advisory, will host its inaugural exhibition in Kuwait at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) warehouse located next door to the Life Center in industrial Shuwaikh (block 2, street 28). Curated by Ali Bakhtiari, the exhibition, entitled How I Learned to Stop Fearing and Love Exotic Art, will open on 20th November 2011.  The show will end on 10^th December 2011.

Highlighting the use of writing in the field of contemporary Arab and Iranian art, JAMM”s exhibition will feature artworks that incorporate text in its various forms- calligraphy, graffiti, quotations, poems and sometimes just a single letter. Featuring works by both emerging and established Middle Eastern artists, the participating artists include Parviz Tanavoli, Hassan Hajjaj, Farideh Lashai, Katya Traboulsi, Fareed Abdal, Amira Behbehani, Shezad Dawood, Nargess Hashemi, Susan Hefuna and Farhad Moshiri.

“This is a wonderful opportunity to present the works of contemporary Arab and Iranian artists and to showcase works in various artistic media that incorporate text. The use of writing is familiar theme in the field of contemporary Arab and Iranian art. We want to highlight and celebrate that.”

–      Sheikha Lulu Al-Sabah, co-founder of JAMM

About JAMM:

JAMM was founded by Kuwait based art-journalist and former Middle East Director for Philips de Pury, Lulu M. Al-Sabah and former head of Christie’s, Middle East, Lydia Limerick. Their mission is to create cultural projects without geographical boundary.

Projects range from large-scale exhibitions and events to small-scale activities focuses on the development of the art market in the Middle East and other key regional markets. For more information on JAMM, please visit www.jamm-art.com

For more information on JAMM, please contact

Lulu Al Sabah: lasabah@jamm-art.com

Gazala Shaikh: gazalashaikh@jamm-art.com

Met’s new Islamic wing: explore 360° panoramas!

The New York Times

Take an interactive tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Islamic wing. Explore 360° panoramas of the Moroccan Court and the Damascus Room. Zoom in on The Emperor’s Carpet. What are your favorite pieces from this interactive tour? Anything capture your interest?

At the Metropolitan Museum, a New Wing, a New Vista

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On Nov. 1, after eight years of renovations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will open its new Islamic wing.

Tunisia voting and Libya declared FREE!

Landmark Tunisia vote under way

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Polls open in Tunisia in the first free election of the Arab Spring, nine months after the fall of former President Zinedine el Abidine Ben Ali.

 

New rulers to declare Libya free

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Libya's transitional government is to declare national liberation, days after the killing of former leader Colonel Gaddafi and the capture of his stronghold of Sirte.

The rise and fall of Qaddafi

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Though he sold himself as either a costumed buffoon, a wild-eyed terrorist, or a wary reformer, Qaddafi's rule was one of the most cunning and improbable feats of modern dictatorships

3 women awarded 2011 Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize for Women's Rights

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Three influential women from Africa and the Middle East were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2011 on Friday in a decision which firmly draws attention to the suppression of women’s rights around the world....

Farewell Wangari Maathai

"We are called to assist the earth," said the late Wangari Maathai, "to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own — indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty, and wonder."

Farewell Wangari Maathai

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Wangari Maathai, founder of Kenya's Green Belt Movement, winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize and 1991 Goldman Prize, died of cancer on Sunday in Nairobi. Click to read more about her amazing work.

Artist Wangechi Mutu: 'My lab is the female body'

Artist Wangechi Mutu: 'My lab is the female body'

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Merging magazine cutouts, painted objects and even motorbike parts, Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu creates layered images of fantastical figures, transforming the female form into something both powerful and primal.