Very few Arabs or thoughtful Westerns view the Palestinians as one-dimensional resistance fighters or, worse, terrorists. The Palestinians are known for their poetry -...

Calligraphy is the art of the Arabs. That is not an accident of history, but a direct consequence of the arrival of Islam. Pagan Arabs had long drawn images of...

Thanks to the wisdom of the late Saudi Mufti Bin Baz, cinemas are banned is this awfully repressive Kingdom. Photo Credit: www.benettontalk.com The Wahhabi clerics...

Mahmoud Darwish was born in northern Palestine, in what is today referred to some by “Israel.” In 1948, with the al-Nakba [The Catastrophe] resulting from...

“Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed,” said William Blake. But the moral guardians of daytime TV take a different view. The Channel 4...

Van Gogh and Gauguin forged a deep friendship during the two years they lived and painted, sharing a place in Arles, in the south of France. The two had built the...

Studio3 presents “Stillness Speaks” an exhibition of Buddha Paintings by Umakant Tawde at Jehangir Art Gallery.2nd AC Hall from 3rd June...

London is hosting a Palestinian film festival for its tenth year. Not an Arab film festival, but a Palestinian one. Chicago and Houston also hold their annual...

Sussane Wenger, painter, sculpture and artist of Austrian origin, but who lived almost all her adult life in Osogbo, Nigeria has died in Osogbo on January 12, 2009 at...

Lahore is Pakistan’s leading center of art and culture. Recently, on January 09 2009, two theaters in Lahore were targeted by what are thought to be fundamentalist...

The dancing girls of Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, are on strike in protest against the tide of Talibanisation that is threatening to destroy an art form...

I was in a haze staring at my monitor when I had this phantom scenario in my head one morning, where me and a couple of friends were in a round table chatting and...

L’atelier WM is a a group of young artists founded in Paris in 2008. They have a line of colorful candles, both in looks and attitude. Hands making gestures cast...

With the end of the Summer Salzburg Festival, I think back to the founders of such an event. Two of the prime movers were Jews: the magnificent theater director Max...

This is probably one of the most famous squares in Italy and in the world: St Mark’s Square, one of the symbols of Venice. However, the 900-year-old piazza, which...

The crucified frog will be staying where it is. A statue representing a frog on a cross like Jesus Christ, with eyes and tongue lolling out, will remain displayed in...

In yesterday’s Times Of India the “Speaking Tree” section espouses the merits of knitting . In a US church they have something called the...

By Vincent Van Ross Last year there were indications of the beginning of a great boom in the Indian art market—or, so it seemed. It soared like the stock market. ...

“The Golan Heights is a plateau on the border of Israel, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. The Syrians attacked the Golan with 1,500 tanks and 1,000 artillery pieces.

Hannes Broecke, a German artist, figured out how to create works of art that people could not only consume with their eyes, but also with their mouths!