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The Gulf’s best-kept secret
PROFILE Godfrey Barker profiles Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, whose daughters told him: “Daddy, you are astonishing, yet nobody knows you” I meet the Arab world’s most remarkable new painter –...
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21st-century Gulf art grand tour
INVESTMENT Shaikha Mai bint Mohammed Al Khalifa, Culture Minister of Bahrain, explains the “rush into art” on the Arabian Gulf Not since Catherine the Great enlarged the Hermitage Palace and built...
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Art and the Gulf
OVERVIEW The tiny oil-rich states on the Arabian Gulf are spending more money on art and new museums than any other countries in the world, writes Godfrey Barker Nowhere in the world is more money...
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Marriage à la mode
INSPIRATION Charles Saumarez Smith, secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy, outlines an exciting project in Bahrain Like many other people in the art world, I have spent quite a bit of time...
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Hadid and new museum for Bahrain
SEA SERPENT Architect Zaha Hadid explains her latest design for Bahrain to Godfrey Barker Egypt, Syria and Jordan have been, for decades, the tourist Meccas of the Middle East. The Pyramids and the...
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Surging Middle-Eastern art market
RUNAWAY From Dubai to Doha, Wendy Goldsmith finds that prices are doubling or even trebling When the gavel fell on lot one in Christie’s inaugural auction in Dubai in spring 2006, the most experienced...
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Art renaissance in the Middle East
CONVULSION Ali Khadra, editor of Canvas Magazine, defines who matters and what matters in Middle Eastern art now With the world’s attention focused on the political upheaval currently sweeping the Arab...
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