CHRISTIE’S MAKES HIGHEST PRICE FOR A PAINTING BY A MIDDLE EASTERN ARTIST

CHRISTIE'S MAKES HIGHEST PRICE FOR A PAINTING BY A MIDDLE EASTERN ARTIST

$2.7 MILLION WORK BREAKS WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR FAHR EL-NISSA ZEID & IS SECOND HIGHEST PRICE FOR ANY MIDDLE EASTERN WORK SOLD AT AUCTION

WORLD AUCTION RECORD FOR A FEMALE MIDDLE EASTERN ARTIST

Auctioneer, Jussi Pylkkänen, President of Christie’s Europe, Middle East, Russia and India sells El-Nissa Zeid’s Break of [...]

November 19th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments are closed

The Young Collectors Auction Catalogue Released, Jeddah Edition

ShoesandDrama.com | The Young Collectors Auction Catalogue Released, Jeddah Edition

Ayyam Gallery is delighted to announce that it will hold the first-ever The Young Collectors Auction in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at its space in Jeddah on 12 November 2013. [...]

November 7th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments are closed

Jeddah Gallery Exhibit: Faisal Samra - MAJAZZ (METAPHOR)

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Ayyam Gallery, Jeddah is pleased to announce the solo exhibition, ‘MAJAZZ (METAPHOR) – ???? ’ by Saudi Arabian artist Faisal Samra from 23 September – 31 October.

This hugely significant artist is returning to Saudi Arabia for the first time in 13 years, where he will present a [...]

August 6th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments are closed

Public Display of Affection (PDA)

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Yesterday, I witnessed a couple interlocked on the Corniche – the boardwalk in Jeddah, watching the waves as they hit the rocky shore. Passersby seemed not to even notice this subtle, yet unusual display of public affection. In Saudi Arabia, a Kingdom deeply rooted in Sharia law, such overt intimacy has always been considered [...]

July 5th, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments are closed

God Save the Met and Their Fuckin’ Costume Institute

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Source: The Hyperallergic

Junya Watanabe F/W 2006/7 (image courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photograph by Catwalking

If there is but one cornerstone of “Punk” as fashion, it is what Dame Vivienne Westwood dubbed “confrontation dressing.” Swastikas, tampons, spray-painted swears, safety pins — these were the tools with which this particular postmodern machine [...]

May 13th, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Comments are closed
 
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