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Seeing Baya - Portrait of an Algerian Artist in Paris
Alice Kaplan September 12, 2024 The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth. On a... Read more -
An Arab Art Capital: Group Show at Musée D’Art Moderne Paris
Canvas Online | Sophie Kazan July 31, 2024 The exhibition currently showing at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Présences Arabes – Modern Art and Decolonisation, Paris 1908–1988... Read more -
Algerian artist ‘Baya was a secret I didn't want to force’, says author Alice Kaplan
MEMO | Hassina Mechaï July 23, 2024 Paris, 21 November 1947, the young Baya Mahieddine exhibited her paintings in Paris. In front of Aime Maeght’s gallery. Painters... Read more -
Arab Presences Modern Art and Decolonisation - Paris 1908 - 1988
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris April 5, 2024 The exhibition explores a different history of modern art, illuminated by a wealth ofhistorical audio and visual archive material. Organised... Read more -
Chaïbia Talal – the self-taught Moroccan ‘outsider artist’
ARAB NEWS I RAWAA TALASS March 8, 2024 Moroccan artist Chaïbia Talal, who died in 2004, could not read or write. Regardless, she expressed herself clearly through her... Read more
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Marginalized Artists are Front and Center at the 2024 Venice Biennale
Artnet | Jo Lawson-Tancred January 31, 2024 The list of 332 participating artists has been announced for the main exhibition at this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, curated... Read more -
Moroccan Modernism at Tate St Ives — postcolonial adventures in abstraction
Financial Times - Maya Jaggi June 11, 2023 In a 1969 photograph by the Moroccan Modernist artist Mohamed Melehi, a market woman in traditional skirts, bearing a heavy... Read more -
Empowered by Art: The Remarkable Journey of Moroccan Artist Chaïbia Talal
NATALIE KEBBE March 8, 2023 Chaïbia Talal, a Moroccan artist, passed away in 2004, having lived a life devoid of literacy but rich in expressive... Read more
