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Saloua Raouda Choucair at Tate Modern

May 16, 2013
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Tate Modern hosts the world’s first major museum exhibition of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair celebrates this remarkable artist’s extraordinary…

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‘Unbalanced’ woman vandalised Eugene Delacroix painting at the Louvre in Lens

February 11, 2013
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One of the most iconic paintings in French history, Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People”, was defaced by a woman with…

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s – 82nd & Fifth: 100 curators about 100 artworks

February 8, 2013
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched today a new web series, 82nd & Fifth, in which 100 curators from across…

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Arab World Institute in Paris: The thousand and one nights

December 5, 2012
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Full of flying carpets, genies, love and battle, a Paris show that opened Tuesday lifts the curtain on “One Thousand…

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Films From the Arab World at MoMA: The Past Is Always Present, Even Uninvited

November 14, 2012
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…… The programmers say they’re trying to show that there’s a conversation going on across geography and generations that may…

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NYTimes: The Louvre Abu Dhabi Project

September 27, 2012
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As recently as a year ago, it seemed likely that the much-acclaimed Louvre Abu Dhabi project would never see the…

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Louvre prepares to open its Art of Islam wing

September 3, 2012
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The Louvre’s astonishing new wing for the department of Islamic art undulates like molten gold, so liquid-smooth in contrast to…

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“Dawn of Egyptian Art”at the Metropolitan Museum New York

June 24, 2012
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By Souren Melikian The admirable show, “Dawn of Egyptian Art” put together at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Diana…

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