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Ibraaz
''Ibraaz'' is an online forum for visual culture in North Africa and the Middle East. Publication ''Ibraaz'' publishes an annual online platform that focuses on research questions conceived through a network of editorial contributors based in the Middle East and beyond. Its key editorial aim is to publish emerging writers and artists, alongside work by internationally renowned writers, academics, curators, activists, and filmmakers. ''Ibraaz'' works by posing annual ‘platforms’ where a question is put to writers, thinkers and artists about an issue relevant to the MENA region. This platform is sent to respondents both within and beyond the MENA region. Content is added to the website every month. Contributions are archived every twelve months when a new platform begins. ''Ibraaz ''also publishes a series of books, edited by Anthony Downey, under the 'Visual Culture in the Middle East' title. To date, these have included ''Future Imperfect: Contemporary Art Practices and Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qalandiya International (QI)
Qalandiya International is a contemporary art event and biennale that takes place every two years across Palestinian cities and villages. Founded in 2012, it brings together Palestinian and international art and culture organizations in collaboration to produce exhibitions, performances, talks, film screenings, workshops, and tours. QI coincides with and incorporates The Jerusalem Show, a cultural event organized by the Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art and centered in the Old City, and the Young Artist of the Year Award (YAYA), organized by the A. M. Qattan Foundation and given every two years to a Palestinian artist under the age of 30. History QI 2012 The inaugural Qalandiya International was conceived as a way to create an infrastructure that supported cultural practice across Palestine and the diaspora. It took place from 1–15 November 2012 under the title ''Art and Life in Palestine'', and was co- produced by the Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamel Lazaar
Kamel Lazaar (born July 10, 1952) is a Tunisian-Swiss investment banker, serial entrepreneur and philanthropist active across the MENA region. He is the founder and chairman of Swicorp, an investment banking, private equity (PE) and asset management firm headquartered in Riyadh, and former Vice-President of Citibank in Saudi Arabia (at the very beginning of his career). He is known for innovative initiatives in the following fields: business, public policy, art and culture. Education Kamel Lazaar holds a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Higher Institute of Management of Tunis (Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Tunis) and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Tunis. Career Kamel started his career at Citibank in North Africa, Europe and Saudi Arabia and was part of the Saudi American Bank’s ( Samba (bank)) founding team. In 1987, Kamel founded one of the first investment banks in MENASwicorp Today, Swicorp is present in Riyadh, Tunis, Dubai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Magazines
An art magazine is a publication whose main topic is art. They can be in print form, online, or both and may be aimed at different audiences, including galleries, buyers, amateur or professional artists and the general public. Art magazines can be either trade or consumer magazines or both. Notable art magazines include: 0–9 * ''20x20 magazine'', arts and literature publication, founded in 2008 in London * '' 291'', 1915–1916, New York City A * ''Aesthetica'', est. 2002, United Kingdom * ''Afterall'', est. 1998/9, London, United Kingdom * ''Afterimage'', est. 1972, bimonthly journal of media arts and cultural criticism published by the Visual Studies Workshop * ''The Aldine'', 1869–1879, American art monthly * ''American Art Review'', est. 1972, American colonial era until the early 1970s * ''Aperture'', est. 1952, quarterly photography magazine; based in New York City * ''Apollo'', est. 1925, monthly, based in London, United Kingdom * ''ARC Magazine'', est. 2011, cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joana Hadjithomas
Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige are Lebanese filmmakers and artists. Their work includes feature and documentary films, video and photographic installations, sculpture, performance lectures and texts. Personal life Joana Hadjithomas (born 10 August 1969, , gr, Ιωάννα Χατζηθωμά) and Khalil Joreige () were born in Beirut in 1969, and spent their childhood there during the Lebanese Civil War. They both studied literature at the Paris Nanterre University and film in New York. They are married. They have collaborated since the early 1990s on videos, films, photographs, and installations. They are known for their long-term research based on personal or political documents and their particular interest in the traces of the invisible and the absent, a forgotten space project from the 1960s, the strange consequences of Internet scams or the geological and archaeological undergrounds of cities. They occasionally use explicit life events as subjects for their work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maraya Art Centre
''Maraya'' ( ar, مرايا, lit=Mirrors) is a well known satiric multi-season Syrian television series, created by the comedian Yasser al-Azmeh, starting from 1982 to 2013. See also * List of Syrian television series List of Syrian television series. 1960s * ''The happy vacation'' (1960) * ''Bubbles'' (1963) * ''Mokhtar alsaba' bahrat'' (1969) * ''Fae to face'' 1970s * '' Sah Al-Noom'' 1980s * '' Maraya'' 1990s * ''Al-Ababeed'' * '' Al Maout Al Kadem Ila ... External linksAlreef Production Syrian television series 1982 Syrian television series debuts 1980s Syrian television series 1990s Syrian television series 2000s Syrian television series 2010s Syrian television series References {{Asia-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery is an art gallery within the Southbank Centre in central London, England and part of an area of major arts venues on the South Bank of the River Thames. It is sited adjacent to the other Southbank Centre buildings (the Royal Festival Hall and the Queen Elizabeth Hall/Purcell Room) and also the National Theatre and BFI Southbank repertory cinema. Following a rebranding of the South Bank Centre to Southbank Centre in early 2007, the Hayward Gallery was known as the Hayward until early 2011. Description The Hayward Gallery was built by Higgs and Hill and opened on 9 July 1968. Its massing and extensive use of exposed concrete construction are features typical of Brutalist architecture. The initial concept was designed, with the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room, as an addition to the Southbank Centre arts complex by team leader Norman Engleback, assisted by John Attenborough, Ron Herron and Warren Chalk, two members of the later founded group Archigram, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delfina Foundation
The Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming. About Delfina Foundation was founded in 2007 by Delfina Entrecanales CBE, as the successor to Delfina Studio Trust, initially with an intention to nurture artists from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East. The foundation now works internationally with thematic (rather than geographic) programmes, which have explored a range of topics including, the politics of food, the public domain, performance, science and technology, and collecting. Residencies for artists, writers and curators form the core of Delfina Foundation's work as it seeks to support and facilitate the professional development of cultural practitioners, from emerging to established art professionals. The foundation is London's largest provider of international residencies. The foundation began working around seaso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biennial
Biennial means (an event) lasting for two years or occurring every two years. The related term biennium is used in reference to a period of two years. In particular, it can refer to: * Biennial plant, a plant which blooms in its second year and then dies * Biennale, the Italian word for "biennial" and a term used within the art world to describe an international exhibition of contemporary art, stemming from the use of the phrase for the Venice Biennale. (The English form, "biennial", is also commonly used to describe these art events.) See also * wikt:biannual, Biannual, meaning twice a year * Biennial bearing trees, which produce fruit once every two years {{disambiguation Units of time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palestinian People
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=none, ), are an ethnonational group descending from peoples who have inhabited the region of Palestine over the millennia, and who are today culturally and linguistically Arab. Despite various wars and exoduses, roughly one half of the world's Palestinian population continues to reside in the territory of former British Palestine, now encompassing the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (the Palestinian territories) as well as Israel. In this combined area, , Palestinians constituted 49 percent of all inhabitants, encompassing the entire population of the Gaza Strip (1.865 million), the majority of the population of the West Bank (approximately 2,785,000 versus some 600,000 Israeli settlers, which includes about 200,000 in East Jerusalem), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York City
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the List of United States cities by population density, most densely populated major city in the United States, and is more than twice as populous as second-place Los Angeles. New York City lies at the southern tip of New York (state), New York State, and constitutes the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban area, urban landmass. With over 20.1 million people in its metropolitan statistical area and 23.5 million in its combined statistical area as of 2020, New York is one of the world's most populous Megacity, megacities, and over 58 million people live within of the city. New York City is a global city, global Culture of New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asia Society
The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Shanghai, Melbourne, and Zürich, Zurich). These centers are overseen by the Society's headquarters in New York City, which includes a museum that exhibits the John D. Rockefeller III, Rockefeller collection of Asian art and rotating exhibits with pieces from many countries in Asia and Oceania. In January 2021, the Asia Society named former Prime Minister of Australia, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as its CEO and President. Mission The Asia Society defines the region of Asia as the area from Japan to Iran, from central Asia to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. The Asia Society is a non-profit, non-partisan organization whose aim is to build awareness about Asian politics, business, education, art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
