Mona Saudi: Poetry and Form At Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah Location: Sharjah Art Museum Arts Area, Al Shuweiheen Date: March 7 – June 7, 2018 Curated by: Hoor Al Qasimi and Noora Al Mualla Organised by: Sharjah Art Foundation, in…
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Taking Shape Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s At Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York Location: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York Date: January 14 – April 4, 2020 This exhibition was originally slated to be…
Interview with Fatenn Mostafa-Kanafani for Modern Art and Artist Estates: Ways, Works and Archives Issue – Vol I I noticed that more and more Western scholars were interested in researching Arab art history but solely from an art point of…
Ayman Baalbaki reflects on friends, family and influences in an exclusive interview with selections Marwan Kassab Bachi When we were at university, the gallerist Amal Traboulsi put on a show for Marwan Kassab Bachi in Beirut. I saw the exhibition…
Ayman Baalbaki reflects on friends, family and influences in an exclusive interview with selections Brotherhood My brother and I were both born in February with only one year’s difference between us, whereas we have a younger and older sister. Although…
By Oussama Ghanam In 2003, during our student years, Ayman and I watched a restored version of Tarkovsky’s “Nostalghia” at the Pompidou Centre. It was the first time I had seen the movie in a real theatre. The first time…
By Said Baalbaki In our culture, the notion of brotherhood is related to stories of Cain and Abel, with one brother killing the other, but this has no relation to the brotherhood that Ayman and I share. Ayman was there…
By Serwan Baran My first meeting with Ayman was in summer 2001 in the Atelier in Amman with the creative Marwan Kassab-Bachi/ Darat al Funun-Jordan. I met Ayman, the young man from Beirut, a head full of hair, civil war…
By Nayla Tamraz I have known Ayman for several years. It was 2004 or 2005 when we met. He had just exhibited this incredible car, topped with mattresses and backpacks, at the Beirut Theatre, revealing his playful side: Ayman likes…
By Stephane Sisco Brothers in arms. That is what we are with Ayman Baalbaki. Because we know that the real battles, the ones against our own selves, are not fought during but rather after the war. So, we impose obligations…