Qatar Museums

Six key works by M.F. Husain to see at Lawh Wa Qalam

Amita Shenoy, curatorial consultant to the brand-new Doha institution dedicated to work of M.F. Husain, picks out some highlights

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Education, arts and heritage meet in Doha’s new museum

Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum is a modern cultural learning space where visitors can explore the artist’s work but also engage with a new model for educational arts practice in Qatar

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M.F. Husain in Qatar: bridging Asia and the Arab world

Lawh Wa Qalam: M.F. Husain Museum casts fresh light on Husain’s final years, tracing how his late work moved beyond borders

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Seeing is believing: Gérôme and Pakistan shows mark 20 years of museum building in Qatar

Exhibitions offer fresh looks at a once globally famous French 19th-century Orientalist artist and Pakistan’s embrace of modernity

Qatar Museums and Venice's new protocol of co-operation includes aim of restoring 'symbolic parts of the city’

Renewable five-year agreement, announced during Art for Tomorrow conference, covers collaboration on regeneration of cultural heritage, art publications and connections between Venetian and Islamic architecture

Qatar Museums fly Palestinian flag in the aftermath of Hamas attack on Israel

Sheikha Al-Mayassa shared images on social media of the Palestinian flag projected on the façades of the Museum of Islamic Art and the National Museum of Qatar

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‘We never even bid one dollar’: Sheikha Al-Mayassa discusses Salvator Mundi and controversy around Damien Hirst’s foetus works in new book

An extract from a new publication about collectors by Dani Levinas features rare insights from the chair of Qatar Museums

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Forget the World Cup: Qatar kicks off a major museum-building programme

With a slew of institutions set to open by 2030, the country is putting itself on the global cultural map—but on its own terms