TLDR Ibrahim El-Salahi | The Inevitable

The Italian Mannerist painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, born in Milan around 1526 or 1527, began his career creating traditional religious artwork, stained glass windows, and tapestries for local cathedrals alongside his father, Biagio. In 1562, Arcimboldo relocated to Vienna to serve ...  Show more

Peter Max, born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin in 1937, is a legendary German-American pop artist whose multicultural childhood profoundly shaped his vibrant creative style. After fleeing Nazi Germany with his family in 1938, Max spent a decade in Shanghai, China, before traveli ...  Show more

This episode of The Misk Art Library Podcast brings Sudanese painter Salah Elmur who talks about memory, imagination, and artistic identity. Elmur reflects on his Sudanese upbringing, his dreamlike paintings, and his reluctance to label himself as an artist. He explores how memor ...  Show more

In this episode of the afikra podcast, host Mikey Muhanna speaks with His Excellency Rakan Altouq – Vice Chair of the Diriyah Biennale Arts Foundation and Assistant Minister for Culture of Saudi Arabia – and Dr Julian Raby, one of the artistic directors of the Islamic Arts Bie ...

In this episode of The Misk Art Library Podcast Series, we sit down with two experts on art in the Arab world: Lulwah Al Homoud, an artist featured in the Misk Art Library series, and Dr. Nada Shabout, who speaks about the work of Iraqi artist Rafa Nasiri. We discuss Nasiri's leg ...  Show more

The first episode of The Misk Art Library Podcast explores the life and work of two of the foremost figures of Arab art: Abdulrahman Alsoliman and Adam Henein. We are proud to feature esteemed Saudi artist Abdulrahman Alsoliman reflecting on his own practice, alongside curator Mo ...  Show more