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The Jameel Prize 2009

Jameel Prize curator Tim Stanley, Senior Curator in the V&A’s Asian Department, offers the background to the Jameel Prize after its launch in 2009. By TIM STANLEY On 7 July 2009 the first Jameel Prize was awarded to the artist Afruz Amighi, who was born in Iran in 1974 but who has lived in New York since she was three. Amighi’s winning work, 1001 Pages, is a beautiful shadow piece, made by cutting a complex design into a...

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Rachid Koraïchi wins the 2011 Jameel Prize

Algeria-born Rachid Koraïchi has won the GBP 25,000 Jameel Prize for a selection of embroidered cloth banners from a series entitled Les Maitres invisibles (The Invisible Masters), 2008, writes SAJID RIZVI. Martin Roth, Director of the V&A, Hasan Jameel and Ed Vaizey MP, presented Rachid Koraïchi with the prize at a ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 12 September 2011. The V&A’s Jameel Prize 2011 exhibition...

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Mike Omoighe: Art Criticism, Cultural Context and Transmission of Aesthetic Values in Africa

Omoighe Michael Osebhajimete (aka Mike Omoighe) reflects here on ‘Art Criticism, Cultural Context and Transmission of Aesthetic Values in Africa’ in this paper published in Eastern Art Report and Art Criticism Today in March 2007. ‘Art Criticism Reloaded ‘– the idea of redesigning, repackaging, renovating or rebuilding – is very timely and highly welcome. The effulgence of art criticism since the mid-twentieth century has dwindled,...

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Africa Remix at the Mori Art Museum

The recent showing of Africa Remix: contemporary art of a continent at Tokyo’s high-rise Mori Museum sheds new light on how location and audience can impact on an exhibition of art seen elsewhere in different settings and aimed towards other audiences. Download article, EAR53_AfricaRemix

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Catching up on Islamic art

Art museums are scrambling to attract more audiences for Islamic art, both historical materials and contemporary art from the wide expanse of the Middle East and North Africa region, Central Asia and the Caucasus, writes SAJID RIZVI. The aim ostensibly is to build up visitor numbers and public understanding of Islamic cultures and civilisations. Can this increased interest in Islamic art and culture substitute for a greater commitment...

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Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum

Following its highly successful collaboration with The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to stage Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and Tsarina, the National Museums of Scotland (NMS) continues the successful relationship into 2006 with a major exhibition on Islamic art. Beyond the Palace Walls, Islamic Art from The State Hermitage Museum showcases the cream of Islamic art from one of the largest and most renowned...

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