New Middle East Galleries
Penn Museum
Slipper coffin, Nippur, Iraq.

New Middle East Galleries

  • Penn Museum, Philadelphia
The 4,500-year-old crown jewels of a queen. One of the world's...
Hikāyāt (stories) حکايات

Hikāyāt (stories) حکايات

  • 4월 13, 2019 through 5월 11, 2019
  • Jaracanda Images, Amman
This exhibition combines handcrafted photogravure prints by Spain...
Helen Zughaib: Migrations
Helen Zughaib
"Syrian Migration #5," by Helen Zughaib.

Helen Zughaib: Migrations

  • 5월 23, 2019 through 7월 28, 2019
  • The President Woodrow Wilson House, Washington D.C.
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference that ...

Hammer Projects: Jamilah Sabur

  • through 5월 5, 2019
  • Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Miami-based Jamilah Sabur is a multidisciplinary artist whose work incorporates performance, video and installation. Un chemin escarpé  / A steep path (2018) is a five-channel video...
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Hikāyāt (stories) حکايات

  • 4월 13, 2019 through 5월 11, 2019
  • Jaracanda Images, Amman
This exhibition combines handcrafted photogravure prints by Spain-based artist Tariq Dajani with Arabic poetry by Darwish, Qasim, Rumi and Gibran. Dajani uses old family photographs and...
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The Master Musicians of Jajouka Led by Bachir Attar

  • 5월 1, 2019 through 5월 12, 2019
  • Various venues throughout Europe
The Master Musicians of Jajouka are an all-male group from Jajouka, a small village in the foothills of the Rif Mountains about a hundred kilometers from the major Moroccan port city of Tangier. As...
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The Cultural Landscape of Syria: Preservation and Archiving in Times of War

  • through 5월 26, 2019
  • Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
Syria has always attracted travelers looking to explore and document its rich cultural landscape: today, their photos, maps and reports provide an invaluable foundation for reconstruction. The...
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Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode-Museum

  • through 6월 2, 2019
  • Bode-Museum, Berlin
The exhibition introduces superlative works of art from Africa from the Museum of Ethnology into the peerless sculpture collection of the Bode-Museum. Pairs of sculptures from both continents are...
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Personnages: Maliheh Afnan

  • through 6월 9, 2019
  • Museo 'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Italy
This is the first museum retrospective dedicated to the French Palestinian artist Maliheh Afnan, born in Haifa in 1935 and passed away in 2016. Despite not yet being well-known to the public...
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Sharjah Biennial 14: Leaving the Echo Chamber

  • through 6월 10, 2019
  • Various locations, Sharjah, UAE
Sharjah Biennial 14 showcases three exhibitions that explore the possibilities and purpose of producing art when news is fed by a monopoly of sources, history is increasingly fictionalized, when...
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The World between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East

  • through 6월 23, 2019
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From 100 BCE to 250 CE, the territories and trading networks of the Middle East were contested between Roman and Parthian Empires, yet across the region, life was not defined by these two...
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Ornamental Traditions: Jewelry from Bukhara

  • through 6월 30, 2019
  • The Art Institute of Chicago
Located in present-day Uzbekistan, the Emirate of Bukhara (1785–1920) was an important center of Islamic religion and scholarship and a major oasis on the famous Silk Road that traversed...
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