March
Cairo to Constantinople.
Early Photographs of the Middle East. In 1862, the Prince of Wales (later King Edward vii) was sent on a four-month educational tour of the Middle East, accompa-nied by the British photographer Francis Bedford. This exhibition documents his journey through the work of Bedford, the first photographer to travel on a royal tour. It explores the cultural and political significance Victorian Britain attached to the region, which was then as complex and contested as it remains today. The tour took the Prince to Egypt, Palestine and the Holy Land, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey and Greece. He met rulers, politicians and other notable figures, and traveled in part on horseback, camping in tents. On the royal party’s return to England, Francis Bedford’s work was displayed in what was described as “the most important photographic exhibition that has hitherto been placed before the public.”
Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh
March 8 through July 21.
Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum.
The two cities on the Bay of Naples, in southern Italy, were buried in just 24 hours by a catastrophic volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 bce. This event ended the life of the cities but also preserved them until their rediscovery by archeologists nearly 1700 years later. Herculaneum was a small seaside town, Pompeii the indus-trial hub of the region. Work continues at both sites, and recently uncovered artifacts include such treasures as finely sculpted marble reliefs and intricately carved ivory panels. The exhibition gives visitors a taste of the cities’ daily life, from the commerce of the bustling street to the domesticity of the family home, and explores the lives of individuals in Roman society—businessmen, powerful women, freed slaves and children. Thus a beautiful wall painting from Pompeii shows the baker Terentius Neo and his wife holding writing materials to show they are literate and cultured and posed to suggest they are equal partners. Other evocative items include six pieces of carbonized wooden furniture, among them a linen chest and a baby’s crib that still rocks on its curved runners.
British Museum, London
March 28 through September 29.
April
Making the Invisible Visible: Conservation and Islamic Art.
Conservators and conservation scholars made many exciting and interesting discoveries as they and the curators re-examined the museum’s collection of Islamic art in preparation for the reopening of the new galleries in November 2011. This exhibition traces their investigative journey with a range of works of art, providing new perspectives for appreciating this extraordinary collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 2 through August 4.
April 2 through August 4.
The Philippines: Archipelago of Exchange.
The Philippines archipelago includes more than 7000 islands extending over nearly 7000 kilometers; its geographical and historical situation has resulted in extensive and varied artistic expression of a dual nature: One artistic vision is turned toward the mountains, the other toward the sea, and they are linked by the concept of exchange—symbolic or commercial—that creates relationships between donors and recipients, whether they are individuals or groups, real or divine. The exhibition includes more than 300 works of art.
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
April 9 through July 24.
May
Little Syria, New York: An Immigrant Community’s Life and Legacy (1).
Little Syria, New York: An Immigrant Community’s Life and Legacy documents the rich history of New York’s first Arab–American community. From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, an area of Manhattan’s Lower West Side was the home to a vibrant and productive community of Arab–Americans. Dubbed the “heart of New York’s Arab world” by The New York Times, the Washington Street neighborhood was where many participants in the first wave of Arab immigration to the United States got their start. Their experiences, all but lost to living memory, parallel those of other immigrant groups of the Great Migration period.
3LD Art + Technology Center, New York
May 4 through May 26.
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue.
Threshold to the Sacred: The Ark Door of Cairo’s Ben Ezra Synagogue focuses on a work of exceptional historical importance: an intricately decorated and inscribed wood panel believed to come from the Ben Ezra Synagogue of Old Cairo (Fustat), which has captured public imagination for more than a century.
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
through May 26.
Beyond the Chador: Dress From the Mountains and Deserts of Iran.
Beyond the Chador: Dress From the Mountains and Deserts of Iran offers the surprise of diversity, bright colors and a multitude of shapes that contradict the perception of Iranian clothing as being dull and uniform. The country’s complex geography, climate and human history are reflected in a wide diversity of cultures and traditions. Although rapidly vanishing in some area, many aspects of these traditions can still be found in Iranian regional dress, especially that worn by women. Most of the outfits in the exhibition date from the late 19th and 20th centuries and were collected between 1998 and 2003.
Textile Research Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
through May 30.
June
In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art.
In Harmony: The Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art showcases some 150 works ranging in date from the first millennium BCE to the mid-20th century, including luxury glazed ceramics from the early Islamic era and illustrated manuscripts of medieval epic poems, including the Shahnama. The exhibition is organized chronologically, beginning with earthenware from the 9th and 10th centuries, and closing with lacquerware from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Interspersed are several thematic clusters, as well as groupings of folios from four illustrated manuscripts that Mrs. Calderwood endeavored to reassemble when they were dispersed on the art market. The exhibition marks the first time the museum is offering augmented reality technology: After downloading an app, visitors can point their device at one of six designated objects in the gallery, and additional content will appear. Content may include photomicrographs from the object’s conservation treatment, comparative images in other collections or video showing the recreation of a vessel’s construction.
Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
through June 1.
Beyond the Surface: Scientific Approaches to Islamic Metalwork.
Beyond the Surface: Scientific Approaches to Islamic Metalwork examines key examples of Islamic and preIslamic metalwork from the fourth through 14th centuries to investigate the ways that craftsmen adapted the technological and stylistic legacies of Roman, Byzantine and Sasanian precursors. Photomicrographs and x-radiographs illuminate the composition of the exhibits, two major manufacturing technologies (casting and sheet metal-working) and techniques of decoration.
Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
through June 1.
Sky Spotting Stop.
Sky Spotting Stop is a temporary site-specific installation that shades the courtyard of the museum while floating gently on the hidden waters of the Bosporus and projecting its host space upon the city. Thanks to this ephemeral, lively addition, part of the museum’s Young Architects Program, the courtyard will become part of the skyline. On the ground, a changing landscape, made of mobile recycled elements, transforms the courtyard into a new stop in the city for special events aimed at young people, for sitting, resting, gathering, playing or “sky-spotting.”
Istanbul Modern
June 1 through September 30.
Journey.
Journey is a photography exhibition by Hala El-Koussy.
Mashrabia Galllery for Contemporary Art, Cairo
through June 6.
Poetics and Meanings.
Poetics and Meanings by Fred Eerdekens and Mohammed Kazem.
Gallery Isabelle van den Eynde, Dubai
through June 8.
The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989.
The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989 introduces the vital work of Sahmat, a Delhi-based collective. Animated by the urgent belief that art can propel change and that culture can reach across boundaries, Sahmat has offered a platform for an expansive group of artists and collaborators to present works of art that defend freedom of expression and battle intolerance within India’s often divisive political landscape.
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
through June 9.
Images of the Afterlife.
Images of the Afterlife brings two Egyptian mummies from the museum’s collections face-to-face with the public. Recent CT scans and the latest 3-D imaging have revealed the mummies’ secrets and enabled an artist to create realistic sculptures portraying how these two individuals looked in life, thousands of years ago. No longer merely mummies #30007 and #11517, they are now recognizable as a woman in her 40’s and a teenaged boy named Minirdis.
Field Museum, Chicago
through June 9.
Youssef Nabil: Time of Transformation.
Youssef Nabil: Time of Transformation presents three new series of characteristic hand-painted silver gelatin photographs in which the New York–based Egyptian artist explores notions of transition and change as he reflects on the clash of archetypes that defines his country today.
Third Line, Dubai
through June 12.
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning (Houston).
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning focuses on a document sometimes referred to as the first “bill of rights,” a football- sized, barrel-shaped clay object covered in Babylonian cuneiform that dates to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Almost 2600 years later, its remarkable legacy continues to shape contemporary political debates, cultural rhetoric and philosophy. The text on the cylinder announces Cyrus’s intention to allow freedom of worship to his new subjects. His legacy as a leader inspired rulers for millennia, from Alexander the Great to Thomas Jefferson, and the cylinder itself was used as a symbol of religious freedom and the hope for peace in the Middle East.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
through June 14.
Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges With the Arts of Islamic Culture (4).
Beauty and Belief: Crossing Bridges With the Arts of Islamic Culture aims to bridge differences and inspire insight through beauty, and address the question, “What makes Islamic art Islamic?” Tunisia-born project director Sabiha Al Khemir has assembled over 250 works from 40 lenders in the us and nine countries in Europe and the Middle East, including unique manuscripts from the Royal Library in Morocco. The exhibition represents a journey through Islamic culture from the seventh century onward, combining historical and geographic background with successive sections of calligraphy, ?gurative imagery and pattern, but it makes a point of touching on the present day, also including works by contemporary artists.
Portland [OR] Art Museum
June 15 through September 8.
Eye Level in Iraq: Photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson.
Eye Level in Iraq: Photographs by Kael Alford and Thorne Anderson presents photographs by two American-trained photojournalists who documented the impact and aftermath of the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. They made the photographs during a two-year span that began in the months leading up to the allied invasion in spring 2003 and covers the emergence of the armed militias that challenged the allied forces and later the new central Iraqi government. Alford and Anderson photographed outside the confines of the military’s embedded-journalist program in an attempt to get closer to the daily realities of Iraqi citizens and to learn how the war, and the seismic political and cultural shifts that accompanied it, affected ordinary people. A decade after Baghdad fell, Kael Alford said, “I consider these photographs invitations to the viewer to learn more, to explore the relationships between public-policy objectives and their real-world execution, and to consider the legacies of human grief, anger, mistrust and dismay that surely follow violent conflict. I hope that these images will also open a window on the grace of Iraq and perhaps help to give a few of these memories a place to rest.”
De Young Museum, San Francisco
through June 16.
Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport.
Hey’Ya: Arab Women in Sport features photographs and videos of 90 Arab sportswomen from 20 Arab countries, made by sisters Brigitte and Marian Lacombe.
QMA Gallery, Doha, Qatar
through June 16.
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning (New York).
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning focuses on a document sometimes referred to as the first “bill of rights,” a football- sized, barrel-shaped clay object covered in Babylonian cuneiform that dates to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Almost 2600 years later, its remarkable legacy continues to shape contemporary political debates, cultural rhetoric and philosophy. The text on the cylinder announces Cyrus’s intention to allow freedom of worship to his new subjects. His legacy as a leader inspired rulers for millennia, from Alexander the Great to Thomas Jefferson, and the cylinder itself was used as a symbol of religious freedom and the hope for peace in the Middle East.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
June 20 through August 4.
Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art.
Ferozkoh: Tradition and Continuity in Afghan Art is an exhibition showcasing works created by Afghan artists inspired by masterpieces from the museum’s collection.
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
through June 22.
Modern Iraqi Art: A Collection.
Modern Iraqi Art: A Collection showcases the works of Dia Azzawi, Halim Al-Karim, Hanaa Malallah and other modern and contemporary artists.
Meem Art Gallery, Dubai
through June 27.
Against the Wall II.
Against the Wall II, by Syrian artist Abdul Karim Majdal Al-Beik
Ayyam Gallery, Dubai
through June 27.
Tradition and Continuity: Woven and Decorated Textiles of the Malay Peninsula.
Tradition and Continuity: Woven and Decorated Textiles of the Malay Peninsula showcases more than 50 objects that delineate the beauty and importance of traditional Malay textiles and costume. A section of contemporary textile masterpieces will also be on display, and a special section of the exhibition shows how the traditional textiles’ esthetics have inspired designers at the Prince’s School of Traditional Design in London.
Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
through June 30.
No Limit 2: One Work / One Artist.
No Limit 2: One Work / One Artist by Mohamed El Baz.
Galerie Imane Fares, Paris
through June 30.
July
Shirin Neshat.
Shirin Neshat, an Iranian–American artist living in New York City, is widely acclaimed for her extraordinary video installations and photographs, yet her collected works are rarely considered as a singular production or displayed together. This mid-career retrospective includes eight video installations and two series of photography. Through visual metaphor and compelling sound, Neshat confronts the complexities of identity, gender and power to express her own vision that embraces the depth of Islamic tradition and western concepts of individuality and liberty.
Detroit Institute of Arts
through July 7.
Living Shrines of Uyghur China: Photographs by Lisa Ross.
Living Shrines of Uyghur China: Photographs by Lisa Ross presents images of the vibrant manmade shrines that dot the breathtaking natural landscape of rural Uighur China. Twenty-three large images and two short videos offer a rare look into a region on the verge of modernization, capturing much of the cultural blending that is indicative at once of the region’s historic diversity and the impending modernization that threatens its holy sites.
Rubin Museum of Art, New York
through July 8.
Darling Hair.
Frivolity and Trophies uses the hairdo and hair undone to explore intimacy, social signaling and self-definition. Hair is socially significant in almost every culture, whether hidden or displayed, often linked with intimacy, decency and sexuality, sometimes symbolizing masculine strength, sometimes femininity. Highly constructed, shaved off, colored, covered with ashes or clay, hair can have ceremonial functions and can express individuality or group adherence. The exhibition begins with rivalry among blond, dark or red hair and among straight, curly and frizzy, drawing on a wide range of classical paintings, sculptures and photographs; it continues through the notion of hair as a human raw material, and closes with hair as a symbol of loss, of the passing of time and of illness and death.
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris
through July 14.
Resplendent Dress From Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers.
Resplendent Dress From Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers presents 57 beautiful 19th- to 20th-century women’s clothing ensembles from Macedonia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro and neighboring countries—all formerly parts of the Ottoman Empire—and more than 100 additional individual items such as vests, aprons and jewelry. These colorful and intensively worked garments were often adorned with embroidery, lace, metal threads, coins, sequins, beads and—most important—fringe, which has been a marker of virginity in women’s dress for more than 20,000 years. By 1900, a southeast European village woman’s clothing and its historically accreted layers could be read at a glance, informing the viewer of her marital status, religion, wealth, textile skills and more—all part of her suitability as a bride.
Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles
through July 14.
New Blue and White.
From East Asia through the Persian and Arab lands and finally to Europe and the Americas, blue and white porcelain was a cultural marker of certain times and places, and is now one of the most recognized types of ceramic production worldwide. Today’s artists refer to those markers and continue the story, creating works that speak to contemporary ideas and issues, and working not only in ceramics but in glass, fiber and furniture.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
through July 14.
A Cheque Stencil Une Revolution.
A Cheque Stencil Une Revolution is titled after a quotation from Yasser Arafat, referring to the power of carbon paper as a duplication technology that was central to the abilities of political groups of earlier generations to disseminate information and opinions. Moroccan-born artist Latifah Echakhch pays homage to the uprisings of the ’60’s and ’70’s, but her work also rings with melancholy as it links abstract art with politics.
Hammer Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles
through July 18.
Nermine Hammam: Cairo, Year One.
Nermine Hammam: Cairo, Year One is the first UK solo show by this Egyptian artist. Her works are intricate composites of layered images and symbols, using a distinctive esthetic that combines digital manipulation and painting to form a rich and highly personal tapestry. The exhibition features two of her most recent series, “Uppekha” and “Unfolding,” which look at the recent civil unrest and uprisings in Egypt. “Uppekha”resets images of Egyptian soldiers taken in Tahrir Square against utopian landscapes of verdant fields, snow-peaked mountains and still waters, examining youth in war, masculine frailty and notions of power. “Unfolding” consists of stylized Japanese landscapes intersected with explicit footage of police action following Egypt’s 2011 revolt. Using the form of ancient Japanese screens allowed the artist to explore the power of suggestion and artfulness and gave her emotional distance.
Mosaic Rooms, London
July 20 through August 24.
Birth of a Museum.
Birth of a Museum is the first large-scale presentation of the collection of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, in the context of Jean Nouvel’s architectural vision. The exhibition unveils a selection of 130 works, most never before seen, and is based on artistic and esthetic themes that reveal the principles of the museum: universality, dialogue among artistic expressions of major civilizations and emphasis on the multidisciplinary nature of artistic creation. Mirroring the future museum, Birth of a Museum proposes a new and unique reflection on the history of art. The suggested dialogue between the Bactrian Princess, a Cypriot idol-statuette, and Yves Klein’s figural expression is a demonstration of key issues of human representation.
Manarat al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi, UAE
through July 20.
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points.
The Shortest Distance Between Two Points by Rayyane Tabet. Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, through July 20.
Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
through July 20.
Alia Syed: Eating Grass.
Alia Syed: Eating Grass comprises five overlapping narratives, filmed in Karachi, Lahore and London, each representing different emotional states experienced throughout the day that correspond to the five daily prayers of Islam. The film captures the ebb and flow of urban dwellers as they move between bustling streets and quiet interior spaces. A soundtrack that includes Syed’s prose, in English and Urdu, adds a further narrative dimension.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
through July 28.
Unveiling Femininity in Indian Painting and Photography.
Unveiling Femininity in Indian Painting and Photography considers the depiction of women in Indian court paintings and photographs from the 17th to the 19th century. Women are often depicted as archetypes from Indian literature and poetry—the devoted heroine awaiting the return of her lover, or the ragini, a personification of classical musical modes. Other paintings offer a rare view into the zenana, where court ladies lived in seclusion, showing them unveiled and enjoying music, poetry, dance and food. The allure of Indian femininity—and of the “exotic other”—continued into the colonial period, when photographic portraits were made of dancers or courtesans.
Los Angeles County Art Museum
through July 28.
Eve II.
Eve II is a group show by artists from France, Mexico, Spain and Jordan.
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman
through July 31.
August
Count Your Blessings.
Count Your Blessings exhibits more than 70 sets of long and short strings of prayer beads from various Asian cultures, many with flourishes, counters, attachments or tassels. Some are made of precious or semiprecious stones, others of seeds, carved wood, ivory or bone. Collectively, they reveal sophisticated and complex arrangements and structures based on symbolic meanings.
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, August 2 through March 24.
August 1 through March 24.
Objects From the Kharga Oasis.
Objects From the Kharga Oasis, where the museum excavated for 30 years, includes late Roman and Byzantine textiles, ceramics and grave goods from an intact tomb. Kharga and the neighboring Dakhla Oasis have yielded evidence of human habitation in the Middle Paleolithic (300,000 to 30,000 years ago) and close contacts with the Nile Valley as far back as the Old Kingdom (2649–2150 BCE). Vital to Egypt’s trading network, the oasis towns were access points for Saharan and sub-Saharan trade, as well as producing numerous crops and manufactured goods—ceramics and glassware—for export to the Nile Valley.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
through August 4.
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning (San Francisco).
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning focuses on a document sometimes referred to as the first “bill of rights,” a football- sized, barrel-shaped clay object covered in Babylonian cuneiform that dates to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Almost 2600 years later, its remarkable legacy continues to shape contemporary political debates, cultural rhetoric and philosophy. The text on the cylinder announces Cyrus’s intention to allow freedom of worship to his new subjects. His legacy as a leader inspired rulers for millennia, from Alexander the Great to Thomas Jefferson, and the cylinder itself was used as a symbol of religious freedom and the hope for peace in the Middle East.
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
August 9 through September 22.
Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan.
Nomads and Networks: The Ancient Art and Culture of Kazakhstan provides a comprehensive overview of the nomadic culture of the peoples of eastern Kazakhstan’s Altai and Tianshan regions from roughly the eighth to the first century bce. With more than 250 objects on loan from Kazakhstan’s four national museums, the exhibition provides a compelling portrait that challenges the traditional view of these nomadic societies as less developed than sedentary ones. Artifacts on view in the exhibition range from bronze openwork offering stands, superbly decorated with animal and human figures; to petroglyphs that marked important places in the landscape; to dazzling gold adornments that signaled the social status of those who wore them.
Freer and Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C.
August 11 through November 12.
Trading Style: An International Fashion Dialogue.
Trading Style: An International Fashion Dialogue presents the results of the cross-fertilization of more than 500 historical ethnographic objects, photographs and films from the museum’s collection with such modern-day fashion labels as Buki Akib (Nigeria), A Kind of Guise (Germany), CassettePlaya (UK) and P.A.M./Parks and Mini (Australia). Working in the museum, each designer investigated ethnographic artifacts and then created new prototype garments inspired by them.
Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt/Main
through August 31.
September
Disappearing Heritage of Sudan, 1820–1956: Photographic and Filmic Exploration in Sudan (3).
Disappearing Heritage of Sudan, 1820–1956:
Photographic and Filmic Exploration in Sudan documents the remnants of the colonial experience in Sudan from the Ottoman, Egyptian and British periods. This photographic and video project by Frederique Cifuentes explores the mechanics of empire, highlighting colonial architecture, design and construction—official buildings, private residencies, cinema houses, railways, irrigation canals and bridges—and the impact they had on Sudanese society before and after independence in 1956. It also helps us understand the ways in which people appropriated and used the buildings after the end of the colonial period.
University of Khartoum, Sudan
September 1 through December 1.
My Rock Stars: Volume 1.
My Rock Stars: Volume 1 is a new body of photographic work by Hassan Hajjaj that showcases people who inspired him as an artist. His subjects have in common is that they embody their passions: What they do defines them and becomes their passport to life. Hajjaj’s series brings studio photography into the streets and acknowledges creativity in all its forms.
Third Line, Dubai, UAE
September 12 through October 18.
Spirituality in the Qur’an.
Spirituality in the Qur’an is the theme of the 17th Annual Women’s Retreat sponsored by the New Mexico Muslim Women’s Association. The guest speaker is Dr. Yamine Mermer. 505-898-1788 or
womensretreat@daralislam.org.
Dar al Islam, Abiquiu, New Mexico
September 14 through September 16.
The New Islamic Art Galleries of the Louvre.
The New Islamic Art Galleries of the Louvre provide a permanent home for the museum’s renowned collection of Islamic art, considered the greatest outside the Islamic world. Over 2500 objects, many never on public display before, are shown in rooms totaling 3000 square meters (32,000 sq ft). The galleries present the entire cultural breadth of the Islamic world, from Spain to India, spanning the seventh to the 19th centuries; their $127-million renovation was financed by the French state, supplemented by donations from a Saudi prince, the King of Morocco, the Emir of Kuwait and the Sultan of Oman.
Musée du Louvre, Paris
September 22.
October
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning (Los Angeles).
The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia: A New Beginning focuses on a document sometimes referred to as the first “bill of rights,” a football- sized, barrel-shaped clay object covered in Babylonian cuneiform that dates to the Persian king Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Babylon in the sixth century BCE. Almost 2600 years later, its remarkable legacy continues to shape contemporary political debates, cultural rhetoric and philosophy. The text on the cylinder announces Cyrus’s intention to allow freedom of worship to his new subjects. His legacy as a leader inspired rulers for millennia, from Alexander the Great to Thomas Jefferson, and the cylinder itself was used as a symbol of religious freedom and the hope for peace in the Middle East.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles
October 2 through December 2.
November
Ataman: Mediterranean Dramaturgies.
Ataman: Mediterranean Dramaturgies includes four of Turkish artist Kutluğ Ataman’s latest video installations.
Sperone Westwater, New York
November 2 through December 22.
Art Istanbul.
Art Istanbul is dedicated to contemporary Turkish cultures. The first iteration of this new art fair collaborates with commercial galleries, auction houses and public museums.
Istanbul
November 19 through November 25.