Constructing from the Ruins
A new monograph of Marwan Rechmaoui charts the artist’s obsessive mapping of the destruction and reconstruction of Beirut over a period of 20 years Part landscape, part sculpture, part [...]
Everything is a State of Mind
Rashid Rana encourages a re-reading of the meaning of time, location and art itself Many of the classical European paintings from the 17th to 19th centuries have become instantly recognisable by [...]
In the Library with Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi
Sharjah-based writer and art collector Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi reveals a selection of his favourite books and talks about using culture to counter the shortcomings of mass and social media Sultan [...]
Photographing the Past, Anticipating the Future
French artist Emeric Lhuisset’s latest project uses the ruins of an ancient Mesopotamian city to warn of the potential for a water war in Iraq’s future In southern Iraq, in the modern-day Dhi Qar [...]
