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BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO ANNOUNCES ARTISTS FOR 2025 EDITION

News Desk June 11, 2025 The Fundação Bienal, which organizes the Bienal de São Paulo, has announced the 120 artists who will be participating in... Read more

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

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

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