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New Doha museum celebrates M.F. Husain’s global legacy
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (545+ words) Lawh Wa Qalam, the name of the new museum that opened in Doha in November, translates from the Arabic as "the canvas and the pen. It invites local and international audiences to have an immersive, transcultural encounter with one of…...
‘An institution where you delve into works’: details of AlUla Contemporary Art Museum announced
7+ hour, 3+ min ago (409+ words) Manal Al Dowayan, O Sister (2021). The artist's early works will. be collected by AlUla Contemporary Art Museum Manal Al Dowayan. Courtesy of AlUla Contemporary Art Museum Further details have been announced about the AlUla Contemporary Art Museum, the Lina Ghotmeh-designed…...
Education, arts and heritage meet in Doha’s new museum
9+ hour, 30+ min ago (390+ words) M.F. Husain's final masterpiece, the multimedia piece Seeroo fi al Ardh (walk in the land), a kinetic installation that blends art, movement and engineering Courtesy of Qatar Foundation Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum is the latest addition to Doha's Education City,…...
One battle after another: Trump’s war on federal architecture
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (218+ words) And despite promises from the government's lawyers that construction on the ballroom would follow the necessary procedures, Trump started off the new year shopping for marble and onyx from a stone importer near his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, according to…...
Louvre Abu Dhabi director Manuel Rabaté leaves to head India’s largest private art museum
2+ day, 50+ min ago (382+ words) India's leading private art museum, the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in New Delhi, has appointed Manuel Rabat" as its first chief executive and director. He joins from the Louvre Abu Dhabi, where he has served as the inaugural…...
Van Gogh and café culture: 'The absinthes and brandies would follow each other in quick succession"
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (693+ words) Adventures with Van Gogh'is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey,'The Art Newspaper's long-standing correspondent and expert on the Dutch painter. Published on Fridays, stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist, to scholarly pieces based on meticulous…...
New documentary provides an inside look at the Harlem Renaissance
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (331+ words) In the film, Schuyler reflects on what they had lived through. "I don't know that it was a Renaissance. It was an awakening," he says. "They came there to Harlem, which was sort of a new Mecca. I have thought…...
Show unpacks legacy of polymath architect who restored Paris's Notre-Dame (the first time)
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (554+ words) In the US, Frank Lloyd Wright is as close to a household name as any architect in the history of the country. But precious few Americans are familiar with Wright's 19th-century predecessor and inspiration, the French architect Eug'ne Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc…...
London’s Courtauld to open two new contemporary art galleries after £10m gift
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (366+ words) A rendering of the Blavatnik Contemporary Galleries The Courtauld has announced plans for two new contemporary art galleries and a reading room at London's Somerset House, supported by a "10m gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation. The donation brings the Foundation's…...
Ethiopia’s Africa Hall wins Modernist conservation award
1+ week, 5+ day ago (220+ words) World Monuments Fund and the furniture designer Knoll have announced the winner of their annual prize for the conservation of an historic Modernist building. The 2026 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize goes to the Australia-based architecture firm Architectus for its…...