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Gallery Tilal|Sami Mohammad
this painting welcomes you into a hall filled with sami mohammad's most recent works. known primarily for his sculptures, mohammad has on display around forty paintings and forty sculptures created...
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gallery morning sunday
first stop was boushahri gallery for the tareq boutaihi exhibition. i liked his women's bodies but funnily enough not the faces. there was something a little too l'oreal elnett hairspray model about...
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Dar Al-Funoon } Bader Albassam
two of albassam's photographs recline as the day continues to be beautiful in the courtyard outside this window One of our trips this morning took us to Dar Al-Funoon gallery in Sharq. We were hoping...
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Gallery Tilal } Helmi El-Touni Retrospective
i want it all and i want it now: this exhibition was a collaboration between the gallery and mr. khaled al abdul mughni. al abdul mughni has been a true lover and patron of the arts for all the time...
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money boxes for the upcoming palestinian culture center exhibition
decorating these money boxes have been fun, although a little difficult to handle as they are tin and difficult to clean! At the Palestinian Culture Center we like to encourage the spirit of giving....
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pictorial stories from a palestinian cultural center exhibition set-up
my double-headed muse hind with a mirror and a headless mannequin My set-up mate and muse Hind and I often begin to enjoy ourselves on the second day of setting up for the Palestinian Cultural Center...
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The Bejeweled Show } Soda Pop Bling | Totemic Flights
here lubna fuses her passion for the environment with her love for bead work. i knew coca cola was good for something I haven’t had much time to visit the galleries this season but this particular show...
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a landscape in portrait } the filming of the making of two pictures
my new friend, the ridge This morning, two film-makers, two curators and two artists headed off to the Mutla’a desert to film a teaser for an upcoming Gulf landscape exhibition organized by the British...
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Sadu House } Laila Al-Hamad’s Zeri Crafts
these are a couple of zeri craft cushions in the more traditional sadu colors. it was so hard to pick just one piece as my favorite, even though there was a stand-out. i know that sounds contradictory...
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rawiya } the other resurrection
I got a sneak peek this morning at CAP’s exhibition The Other Resurrection, a collection of photos by the Rawiya collective, a group of six Arab and Irani female photographers with a story to tell:...
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museum of manufactured response to absence } intervention at the modern...
when entering, the ‘museum’ is rather unsuspicious looking. but upon closer inspection of the objects on display, a more sinister message is revealed Finally. Kuwait’s Museum of Modern Art holds an...
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Saturday Gallery Hop
nadia al foudery’s ‘savage donkey’ at the sultan gallery I enjoyed a solitary game of gallery musical chairs this morning (ok one was Wednesday afternoon). I like galleries that open on the weekend...
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amira behbehani’s ‘the cave in realizatioin’
this reminds me of one of those modernist homes you’d stumble upon in a forest (this would possibly be the forest of my dreams) I’m kicking myself for not going to the exhibition in which this piece by...
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Boushahri Gallery 4th Annual Art Salon
boushahri gallery Boushahri Gallery opened its 4th Annual Salon last Sunday. The exhibition will be open all summer. ‘the modern drivers’, a tongue-in-cheek tapestry by sudanese artist hassan musa a...
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dar al-funoon’s 2nd affordable art exhibition
Visit the Dar Al-Funoon gallery for its second Affordable Art Exhibition. On display will be works by some pretty hefty artists, nothing over KD400, so a great chance to acquire a decent work of art....
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a tribute from a daughter to her father
this is the homepage. check out the doodle on the right. it’s SO exciting and insightful. i feel like i have a backstage pass to this brilliant man’s mind And what a tribute it is. I can only hope that...
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peace one day } global truce 2012 art exhibition
‘ahava’ by fessal rajab Three weeks ago, I hadn’t heard of Peace One Day. Last night, I found myself on a rare Friday night out, with my dear friend Reem, at the Peace One Day Global Truce Art...
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JAMM art auction tonight
ana-katarina and her angeline. i wonder if my mom and her four daughters think that they are looking at a painting of a woman and her little girl I got a bit of an anxiety spell last night when I...
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