GUIDED TOURS

Our Guided Tours series is where we invite you along with us to explore galleries, museums and private collections

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Installation view, Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity at the Dallas Museum of Art. Courtesy of Dallas Museum of Art. Photo by John Smith.

CARTIER AND ISLAMIC ART: IN SEARCH OF MODERNITY

Cartier and Islamic Art: In Search of Modernity traces inspirations from Islamic art and design, including from Louis Cartier’s exquisite collection of Persian and Indian art and the work of the designers of the Maison Cartier from the early 20th…

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Pablo Picasso, Spanish 1881–1973. Reclining woman (Femme couchée) 19 June 1932. Oil on canvas 38.0 x 46.0 cm, 55.6 x 63.0 cm (framed). Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle. Donated by Louise and Michel Leiris, 1984 © Succession Picasso/Copyright Agency, 2022. Photo © Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Bertrand Prévost/Dist. RMN-GP

MELBOURNE WINTER MASTERPIECES EXHIBITION 2022: THE PICASSO CENTURY

The Picasso Century, charts the extraordinary career of Pablo Picasso in dialogue with the many artists, poets and intellectuals with whom he intercepted and interacted throughout the 20th century, including Guillaume Apollinaire, Georges Braque, Salvador Dalí, Alberto Giacometti, Françoise Gilot,…

Warning, 2021 © Mous Lamrabat/Loft Art Gallery

“BLESSINGS FROM MOUSGANISTAN” BY MOUS LAMRABAT AT FOAM

The world of Mous Lamrabat is a place where life is at peace and people are loved, no matter where you are from or where you are going. This is the experience the artist wants to bring across in the…

Hana Afifi, The Light at The End Of The Tunnel, 2021-2022. Oil on canvas,155 x 105 cm

EGYPTIAN ARTIST HANA AFIFI SHARES HER “KEYS TO GROWING UP”

Cairo-based artist and sculptor Hana Afifi welcomed guests into her home and workspace for her most recent, solo exhibition, Keys to Growing Up. An emotional narrative, spanning the past two years, and reflecting the artist’s thought process, curiosities and understanding…

Hoda Tawakol, Delicious Monster #15, 2022. Fabric, wadding, thread, 250 x 520 x 150 cm. Photos: Mareike Tocha

“DELICIOUS MONSTER” BY HODA TAWAKOL AT RUTTKOWSKI;68

Hoda Tawakol works mainly with fabric; dyes, shapes and fills it, turning it simultaneously into artwork and canvas, projection surface and content. In their form, color and sensual materiality, the works develop a high symbolic power that takes up elements…

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Michael Chow, Four seasons, 2018. Acrylic on paper, Polyptych. Framed: 182.88 x 88.2 x 7.62 cm each

MICHAEL CHOW AT SOTHEBY’S DUBAI

Over his eight decades, Michael Chow, known as ‘M’, has inspired countless paintings by the likes of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Hockney and Ed Ruscha, and now – after a 50-year break – he has taken up painting, returning…

Manuella Guiragossian, Sunshine and Rainbows, 2022. Mixed media on Paper, 30 x 30 cm.

“I AM HERE” BY MANUELLA GUIRAGOSSIAN AT CAP KUWAIT

Manuella Guiragossian’s exhibition I Am Here at the Contemporary Art Platform (CAP) covers a series of works she started in 2010 to create an artistic discourse to understand and challenge issues that Guiragossian has been dealing with throughout her life…

Aicha Filali, Shelltox. Collage heightened with acrylic, 85 x 56 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Elmarsa Gallery

MÉMOIRE EN RACCOURCIS (MEMORY IN SHORT) AT ELMARSA GALLERY

Tunisian artist Aicha Filali’s solo exhibition Mémoire en raccourcis (Memory in short) at Elmarsa Gallery features a new body of work. The personal and family history of the artist is an integral part of this new body of work. She…

Etel Adnan, 'Untitled', 2015, oil on canvas, 38 x 46 cm. Collection Jean Frémon. © The Estate of Etel Adnan. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris/New York

COLOUR AS LANGUAGE BY ETEL ADNAN AT VAN GOGH MUSEUM

Colour as Language, a retrospective of work by the artist Etel Adnan (1925-2021) is on view at Van Gogh Museum. Colour as Language features more than 40 paintings by Etel Adnan. Instead of using an easel when she painted her…

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