Ali Al Jabri Exhibition Design →
The Ali Jabri Foundation, was an exhibition design opportunity for the late Jordanian artist Ali Jabri. The permanent gallery was opened in 2010.
The exhibit has since been dismantled.
Posts tagged art
Annie sakkab - Social Documentary Photography and Photojournalism. - strip search →
Toronto Portrait and Social Documentary Photographer, Photojournalist
Tate brings Choucair into the canon →
Tate Modern is showcasing a major retrospective of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair’s work.
Works from the 97-year-old artist, who is a pioneer of abstract art in the Middle East, are on show for the first time in the UK.
Safe space for art strikes a chord in Yemen →
AlJazeera:
Sanaa, Yemen - Yemeni entrepreneur Taysir al-Sharki reaches into her self-designed purse embellished in sitara fabric - a pattern usually reserved for old women’s dresses - to pull out her ringing mobile phone.
But an old woman she is not. The 42-year-old Sharki greets the caller while pouring tea for the dozen artists gathered in her vast new art gallery in Yemen’s dusty capital.
The excited chatter of the young artists gathered in the Raufa Hassan Gallery stops as they see Sharki’s face drop. A Yemeni security official is the caller. Rumours have been swirling that her art gallery is actually an illicit nightclub, they say. Officers will be paying her a visit soon.
Meanwhile, Omr Sa’d - the harmonica player for 3 Meters Away - the activist band in residence at the gallery - notices his own phone ringing. Sa’d already knows the call is bad news: the unknown number is a member of his large, conservative family who is threatening his life for playing rock music.
Finally, Sharki hangs up her phone, looking daunted…continue on AlJazeera
Edward Said, Marcel Khalife, Mahmoud Darwish.
Open Sesame: Memories from a War-Torn Generation →
Through a small collection of objects, maps, letters, and photographs, Open Sesame leads viewers back in time to 2 August 1990— the morning Iraq invades Kuwait. The exhibit pieces together the miscellaneous belongings of children at the time, whom curator Ola El-Khalidi refers to as the “Open Sesame” generation. “Open Sesame” is also the Arabic name for the pan-Arab edition of the American children’s TV series Sesame Street, on which one of the children was to appear that day, but never did.
Open Sesame captures many similar moments of loss and anxiety that had a profound effect on the generation: the separation of childhood friends, the long and unexpected drive to a safer, though stranger place, and the dispersal of families across various countries and time zones. For these children….continue on Jadaliyya
Attention: Incoming Freight →
by Oraib Toukan
In 1963 Jordanian and US bureaucrats strolled around Jerash looking for the perfect column. Together they chose a 30-foot high marble column from one of the twelve complete columns that make up the temple of Artemis. Artemis was the goddess of hunting, and was known to assist women in procreation. The pillar was to be mounted in the Jordanian Pavilion for the 1964-65 World Trade Fair that was designed by Arab American architect Victor Bisharat and that sat nestled among the architectural extravaganza’s of Kodak, Sinclair, General Electric and others. The column still stands today on the grounds of….continue at The River Has Two Banks.
This month in Amman.
h/t TrendesignJO
