theartsdesk in the Emirates: A Cultural Arms Race | reviews, news & interviews
theartsdesk in the Emirates: A Cultural Arms Race
theartsdesk in the Emirates: A Cultural Arms Race
The cultural arms race in the Gulf hots up
Sunday, 29 November 2009
Water featured: I.M. Pei's Museum of Islamic Art
Rising spectacularly from the warm turquoise waters of Doha Bay, the building which is probably I.M. Pei’s final and perhaps his greatest work, the iconic Museum of Islamic Art, symbolises the cultural arms race among the Islamic Emirates strung out along the Gulf, on the flank of Big Brother Saudi Arabia.
Rising spectacularly from the warm turquoise waters of Doha Bay, the building which is probably I.M. Pei’s final and perhaps his greatest work, the iconic Museum of Islamic Art, symbolises the cultural arms race among the Islamic Emirates strung out along the Gulf, on the flank of Big Brother Saudi Arabia.
Add comment
more Visual arts
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed review - superb documentary about a campaigning artist
Nan Goldin's fight against the makers of Oxycontin is as gutsy as her work
Spain and the Hispanic World, Royal Academy review - a monumental survey
The refurbishment of New York's Hispanic Society provides a unique opportunity to see its treasures
Best of 2022: Visual Arts
Museums and galleries are no longer afraid of giving women major shows
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Tate Modern review - a forest of huge and imposing presences
Smell the sisal and feel small in the company of giant hangings
Things, Musée du Louvre, Paris review - the still life brought alive
Monumental Paris art show asks questions about the nature of things
Donna Fleming: Apocalypse, The Pie Factory, Margate review - personal passions and intense feelings
Six years of work expressed through mercurial changes of medium
Making Modernism, Royal Academy review - a welcome if confusing intro to seven lesser known artists
Women artists in Germany describe their world in paint
William Kentridge, Royal Academy review - from art to theatre, and back again
The past is hideous, the future an unknown entity in the varied forms of the artist's work
Hopper: An American Love Story review - a dry view of a much richer subject
The inscrutable American artist gets the cinema treatment in a conventional biography
Lucian Freud: New Perspectives, National Gallery review - a powerful punch in the gut
The complexity of human relationships laid bare in centenary show of the artist who always disturbs
Hallyu! The Korean Wave, V&A review - frenetic but fun
Learn how to succeed, South Korean style, right across the cultural board
Marina Abramović: Gates and Portals, Modern Art Oxford and Pitt Rivers Museum review - transcendence lite
The grandmother of performance art induces deep breathing and a slow heartbeat
Comments
...