101. Salah M. Hassan

Jewel is a multi-platinum singer-songwriter, poet, and visual artist whose work has reached millions. Over the course of her career, she has continually expanded her creative practice—moving between music, writing, and visual art, with a focus on authenticity, emotional truth, an ...  Show more

What does it mean to write about the art world from the inside?In this episode of About Art, Heidi Zuckerman is joined by writer and critic James Cahill to discuss his novel The Violet Hour and the psychological complexity of the contemporary art world.Drawing on his experience a ...  Show more

What was it like curating the biggest exhibition of Arab art happening right now? Why is “Kawkaba: Highlights from the Barjeel Art Foundation” such a landmark exhibition? We sat down with the exhibition’s curator and deputy chair of Christie’s MENA, Dr Ridha Moumni, and the fo ...

The ‘Ethiopia: Modern Nation/Ancient Roots’ season is about to launch with a two-day programme of events this weekend October 11 and 12th at the Africa Institute. It all marks the start of the first scholarly and cultural season at Africa Hall, Sharjah, with a dynamic program tha ...  Show more

In this episode of the afikra podcast, Professor Kirsten Scheid invites us into the world of Modern Art in Lebanon, and Lebanon through the lens of Modern Art. 

We explore what art meant in the 1920s, before the establishment of the Lebanese state, how national imaginari ...

Noelle Giuffrida’s book, Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America (University of California Press, 2018), tells the history of collecting and exhibiting Chinese art through the story of renowned curator and museum director Sherman ...  Show more