Saatchi's 100 Curators 100 Days
Saatchi Online launched 18 July 2012 a new initiative called 100 CURATORS 100 DAYS, recognizing 1,000 artists for their outstanding work. Beginning Wednesday, July 18 2012, every day for 100 days Saatchi Online will reveal one curator’s selection of ten artists to be included in “the largest exhibit of its kind.” The curators have made their selections from more than 60,000 artists that are currently exhibited on Saatchi...
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...
Forum: Connecting Flights: new cultures of the diaspora
The conference, Connecting Flights: new cultures of the diaspora, 7-8 November 2003, was an ambitious project developed by the Arts Council of England, the British Council and the London Arts Board to enquire into and reflect upon the nature and role of the arts in a global society by exploring the cultural opportunities and dilemmas posed by the unprecedented flows of people, goods and ideas across the boundaries of nation states,...
Wilfred Thesiger in conversation with Sajid Rizvi
The former British soldier, explorer and photographer talks about an era long gone with the first gush of oil but still retained in his memory as an important part of human experience. [Thesiger died in 2003, this interview took place in 1996] . This article, originally titled Wilfred Thesiger–Talking of Times Past and of a Present Imperfect is reproduced from Eastern Art Report Volume IV Number 3 © 1996-2014. All rights...
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