Middle Eastern & North African art
Video: Abu Dhabi Art opens as the world watches
Is the UAE now the art capital of the Middle East?
Abu Dhabi Focus podcast, episode one: Louvre Abu Dhabi and Abu Dhabi Art
With all eyes on Abu Dhabi this week, we speak to the architect Jean Nouvel on designing the Arab world's first universal museum. Plus: a preview of Abu Dhabi Art fair
Abu Dhabi Art set to benefit from Louvre opening
This year’s fair has 13 new exhibitors and is hoping for more international visitors
Collectors tackle rise in fake Modern Middle Eastern art
Dalloul Art Foundation investigates authenticity of some Middle Eastern works before museum opening
Sotheby’s to hold first sale in Dubai
Christie’s moves October auction to London as rival plans first sale in the UAE
BM curator's fan club kickstarts his horror story
Irving Finkel has penned his first novel
Saudi Arabian artist’s first US solo show escapes shadow of 9/11
Abdulnasser Gharem says the US show allows him more freedom than he may have in Saudi Arabia
Interest in Middle Eastern art is on the rise in China
Guggenheim show in Shanghai was abruptly cancelled but curiosity about the region continues to grow
Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem to have first solo US show at Lacma
Former lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army is known for his politically and socially engaged works that draw on his Muslim heritage
Saudi women artists make their mark at 21,39 festival in Jeddah
New works draw attention to destruction of Islamic heritage and female car crash victims
A bright spot in an otherwise darkened Egypt
Mohamed Abla's show of new works in Cairo is on amid a moment of prolonged political agony in the country
Basrah Museum opens against the odds in Iraq
New museum is housed in a converted former palace of Saddam Hussein
Arab artists hit the US campaign trail
Culture bus heads to Washington in bid to change attitudes to the Middle East
Iranian artists look forward to the day when sanctions are finally lifted
Interest grows in younger generation active in Tehran’s lively art scene and the Iranian diaspora
Arabian art space moves east
Gentrification in Battersea forces Middle Eastern arts foundation to look for another home
Age of enlightenment: the religious power of Hagia Sophia
Lyn Rodley considers the relationship between Byzantine theology and the Great Church
Iraq’s ancient holy sites lost forever
The country’s monasteries and mosques have no place in the Caliphate
Ramin Salsali's new private museum opens in Dubai with tongue-in-cheek 'Show Off'
The space is based on a former warehouse and will exhibit works biannually from his own collection as well as from other private collections around the world
Collectors pay top prices for the highest quality work of Islamic classics
Christie’s totals higher, but Sotheby’s had the standout individual piece
Are we colonialising Middle Eastern art?
As the Middle East increasingly becomes a producer and consumer of contemporary art, the role of the West as 'tastemaker' grows progressively more troubling
Dubai fair reaps reward of focus on Indian contemporary art
British collectors Charles Saatchi and Frank Cohen were among those who bought
Strong sales at Art Dubai shadowed by censorship of Pakistani artist
Market worries conspicuously absent at Art Dubai
Property developers in Dubai organise shows of rare miniatures and Islamic art
Major collectors based in Gulf state are lending work
London and Paris markets flooded with Iranian antiquities looted from newly discovered site at Jiroft
Before police intervened, thousands of objects were plundered by locals and sold on to Europe
Roger Benjamin's study into the colonial relationship between Modernism and Orientalism
This study investigates how North African artists were influenced by French artists—and vice versa