Reflections on Occupying the American Art Curriculum

 Inheriting Salt, Ernesto Pujol, 2008

Interesting read, especially important to some of us that are part of the problematic system of "young Arab artists... increasingly trained by western visiting professors..."

Sulfur in the Morning… Reflections on Occupying the American Art Curriculum

Ernesto Pujol

...The West is unleashing something in the East, and it must be accountable to the young Arab artists it is increasingly recruiting. These artists are increasingly trained by western visiting professors or migrating to and studying in the West, crafting their first portfolios and projects there, most of which challenge the status quo back home...

ArteEast - Arts and Cultures of the Middle East and its diasporas |

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ArteEast, a New York-based international nonprofit organization established in 2003, supports and promotes artists from the Middle East and its diasporas by raising awareness of their most significant and groundbreaking work through public events, exhibitions, screenings, a biennial film festival, a...

"Out of Kuwait" exhibit opens 7pm on October 17 @ Museum of Modern Art, Kuwait

Contemporary Art Platform is pleased to invite you to:

"Out of Kuwait" exhibition - Wednesday 17th of October 2012 at 7:00 pm at the Museum of Modern Art, Kuwait.

CAP, British Council Kuwait and the National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, will celebrate "Out of Kuwait" who brings together the work of twelve Kuwait-based artists who have examined and reinterpreted the theme of landscape art during a one month artist residency programme called Landscapes Expanded. The exhibition presents the artists’ analysis of their everyday surroundings and comments on the social, political, and physical landscapes of contemporary Kuwait.

This unique opportunity was inspired by the best of Britain’s Landscape artists, whose work is seen in the British Council’s Out of Britain exhibition currently open at Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait. The programme has given artists living in Kuwait the chance to explore contemporary issues related to site, space and place in their field of work.

Landscapes Expanded was open to candidates from all creative and academic disciplines with the understanding that this would create a trans-disciplinary forum for thinking and working. Each participant’s expertise and experience in their own field helped to inform the work generated by the rest of the group. For individuals outside of formal education this type of stimulating platform is rare. Led by artist and curator Alia Farid Abdal, who explores personal perspectives of public space and constructed landscapes in her own art work and academic research. Participating in the programme are architects Aziz Al Humaidhi and Roa AlShaheen, architecture undergraduate Amani Adel Al Thuwaini, spatial designer Aseel Al Yaqoub, Religion, Literature and Arts graduate, Nima Algooneh, English Literature graduate, Zahra Al Mahdi, jewellery designer, Muneera Al Sharhan, painters Lewis Chapman and Eman Musallem, English and American Literature graduate Faisal Hamadah, journalist Naser Al Wasmi, and Middle East Studies graduate, Ceyda Oskay.

lecture: The Role of Landscape in Contemporary Society

Rebecca Close at Contemporary Art Platform (CAP Kuwait), Sunday September 23rd, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

The Role of Landscape in Contemporary Society

Tomorrow at 7:30pm at Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait

Tonight at 7:30pm at Contemporary Art Platform Kuwait

Tonight, Sunday, May 27, Alia Farid's lecture on “The Role of Monuments in the Construction of Landscapes” 7:30pm at CAP.

The Role of Monuments in the Construction of Landscapes: Comments on Monuments (and Anti-Monuments) in the Middle East.

Egyptian Art Exhibit, FA Gallery, 12 Oct, 7pm

تحت رعاية الدكتور سليمان العسكري

رئيس تحرير مجلة " العربي "

يتشرف غاليري فا بدعوتكم لحضور المعرض الفني الاول لهذا الموسم

"ملامح مألوفة ...بين واقع وأسطورة"

معرض جماعي يضم نخبة من 14 فناناً مصرياً..ليكون محطة بارزة تعكس المشهد الفني المصري المعاصر

  من خلال توليفة متميزة من الاسماء التي ترصد تجارب أجيال فنية مختلفة

الافتتاح الاربعاء 12 اكتوبر, 2011- الساعة 7:00 مساء

يستمر المعرض لغاية 1 نوفمبر 2011

Under the Patronage of Dr. Sulaiman Al Askari

Editor in Chief of "Al-Arabi " Magazine

FA Gallery is honored to invite you to the opening of our First Art Show for the New season

" Familiar Features..Between Reality & Myth "

A group Exhibition By 14 Established & emerging artists from Egypt …a stop by an outstanding

station that reflects the contemporary Egyptian formative scene, through the introduction of distinctive

artists who together constitute a visual panorama observing the artistic tendencies among

different generations.

Wednesday 12 Oct . 2011. 7:00 pm

The Show will Run till 1^st of Nov.2011

Feel Free To forward this Email

Abed Al Kadiri

Gallerist & Consultant.

FA Gallery- Modern and Contemporary Art

Owned by OTB Creative Concepts

Kuwait:

Tel:      00965 22 49 8999

Fax:     00965 22 47 0055

Mobile: 00965 97 68 9913

Email: aalkadiri@thefagallery.com

P.O.Box 27869 Safat 13139 Kuwait

Souq Al Watanyiah , Fourth Floor, Office 405-406

Lebanon:

Tel/Fax: 00961 545 6764

P.O.Box : 45-239 Hazmieh

www.thefagallery.com

www.otbcconcepts.com

China and Taiwan Reunite Painting

The bulk of the artworks in the National Palace Museum, Taipei are from 2,972 crates of shipped artifacts that once made up the imperial collections of the Forbidden City, Beijing

China and Taiwan Reunite Painting - NYTimes.com

By ANDREW JACOBS (NYT)
The reunification of an ancient painting at a museum in Taiwan has become a metaphor for the possibility of reconciliation between the two countries.

Link to the website (which was very difficult to find) on the exhibit: Landscape Reunited