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Two imperial cities, one element in the ground — and the difference between a red city and an ochre one turns out to be half geology, half planning law.
Marrakech shows you the iron in its earth; Fez veils the same iron under lime. What makes each city relentlessly one colour, though, isn't the ground — it's what the twentieth century did to it.
The letter set loose, the line woven, the arabesque the West once threw away — and the women who built modern abstraction out of all three, then got written out of it.
Abstraction is usually told as a Western invention that arrived elsewhere late. Saloua Raouda Choucair, Etel Adnan, Madiha Umar and a room of others tell it differently — often as the only woman in the movement, building modern form from the geometry, craft and calligraphy their own culture already held.
The Khamsa across North Africa — Marrakech, Tunis, Algiers — and why the oldest thing about it is the shape, not the story.
Everyone calls it something different — the Hand of Fatima, the Hand of Miriam, the Hand of Mary. One five-fingered shape, several holy names, each written onto it by a community that made it its own. From a carved hand over the Alhambra's gate to Kabyle silver, synagogue lamps and a boy on a Marseille motorway, this is the story of a symbol older than the names it carries — and shared by more people than any one of them.
The Qur'an never mentions a ring. What grew in that gap instead: a demon, a seal, seven signs nobody can trace, a thousand years of amulets, and a star that ended up on a flag.
A fisherman pulls up a copper jar stopped with lead, and the mark of a signet ring is pressed into the lead. Everyone hearing this in ninth-century Baghdad knew what came next — they knew it from the lid. The strange part is that the ring they all knew about is not in the Qur'an.
How a French painter lent his surname to a blue that Morocco had been dyeing, firing and painting for centuries — and what that tells us about who gets to own a colour.
Everyone repeats the same tidy line: a painter fell in love with Marrakech, invented an electric blue, and trademarked it. Almost every clause is a simplification. The colour was already deep in Morocco's visual language — in indigo, in the cobalt of Fez, in the blue of zellige — long before Jacques Majorelle poured it over a single studio wall. What he actually did was rarer and stranger: not invent a colour, but compose a place, and attach a name to a hue no one can truly own.
A village half-buried in sand an hour from Dubai, a name that means "she of the little sickle," and what Emirati sources actually say.
The houses at Al Madam went up around 1980 and stood empty by the mid-1990s. People will tell you she lives there — not in the old stories, though. That attachment is recent, and it is the interesting part.
Development, finance, ops, marketing and HR across museums, festivals and foundations: the work, pay caveats and routes in
Arts administration jobs sit in development, finance, operations, marketing and HR across museums, festivals, foundations and arts non-profits. Here: what the work looks like week to week, how the field formed, entry routes including Goldsmiths and Columbia programmes, pay bands with sources, and UK and US regional variation.
Art handler careers mapped across museums, galleries, auction houses and logistics firms: skills, pay and progression
Art handlers pack, install and move objects for museums, galleries, auction houses and specialist shippers. This career guide covers daily work, physical demands, pay bands in the US and UK, entry routes, and how handlers progress into preparator, registrar or crew-lead roles without turning into a DIY packing tutorial.
Capital, inventory, fair booths and private sales: how to build a dealing practice without salary myths or shortcuts
Building a dealing practice means raising working capital, managing consigned and owned stock, surviving fair selection, and meeting ethics and resale-right duties. This guide maps those steps for people who already know gallery floors and want to trade under their own name, with costs and risks stated plainly.
Front-of-house, sales support and the mid-level track inside dealer spaces: duties, pay ranges and how people get hired
A gallery assistant job is front-of-house and administration inside a commercial space that sells art. This guide maps the role ladder, day-to-day work, sourced salary bands in the UK and US, museum versus trade distinctions, and regional hiring patterns, without promising pay or teaching artists how to sell.
USPAP, ASA, AAA and ISA ladders, plus comps libraries: the practical career route into professional art valuation work
Art appraisal is a standards-bound career built on market hours, report discipline and association credentials. This guide maps USPAP and IVS awareness, ASA, AAA and ISA membership routes, RICS for UK practice, specialisms, liability and how you assemble a usable comparable-sales library for paid work.
Science prerequisites, master’s programmes, internships and specialisms on the route from first degree to bench work
Art conservation trains you to examine, stabilise and treat cultural objects under ethical codes. The route runs through chemistry and studio prerequisites, competitive master’s places, and post-graduate fellowships. This guide maps UK and US programmes, specialisms, costs and when a technician or allied role fits better.
From a four-storey waterfall of pearl divers to a real 155-million-year-old dinosaur — a guide to every permanent artwork inside the world's most visited building.
Every permanent sculpture, kinetic installation and immersive district in the mall — who made them, what they mean and how to see them all in two hours.
Every Star Wars filming location in Tunisia, from the sand-swept Mos Espa set to the cave hotel where Luke grew up — with maps, tips and a 3-to-7-day route.
Tunisia is the real Tatooine. George Lucas filmed here across five films, and most of the locations still stand. Here's every major Star Wars site — Mos Espa, Matmata, the Tataouine ksour, Djerba — plus how to link them into one desert trip.
From asylum landscapes to floral still lifes, the Dutch master's most valuable works reveal a shifting global market
Van Gogh's rare auction appearances command astronomical sums, with his top ten works all exceeding $50m and revealing a dramatic shift in collecting power from West to East.
The artist's new commission explores how rumour circulates through bodies and communities in a two-part work combining dance and sound installation.
As part of the Washwasha exhibition at the 61st Venice Biennale, Taus Makhacheva presents a performance examining gossip as both cultural practice and embodied experience.
Ten USD 10,000 grants available across four categories to support artists, organisations and publications connected to Latin American cultural heritage
Fundación Ama Amoedo announces its 2026 Grants programme, offering ten USD 10,000 awards for visual arts practitioners and institutions with ties to Latin America. Applications close September 9, 2026.
Senior director David Norr assumes sole ownership as founding couple steps back after 25 years
The New York gallery founded in 1999 will continue championing contemporary artists under new leadership while maintaining its core mission.
Heimo Zobernig transforms the museum's recent acquisitions into an experimental spatial rehearsal
More than 150 works acquired over the past ten years are brought together in a bold installation that tests the relationships between objects, narratives and space.
London and Dundee venues to host diverse shows spanning fashion, music, and ceramics
The Victoria and Albert Museum unveils its 2027 programme, featuring South Asian creativity, punk culture, and British ceramics across its sites.
The Jewish Museum explores how a Viennese design collective preserved craftsmanship amid industrial change
A new exhibition at New York's Jewish Museum shines a light on the overlooked contributions of Jewish women artists within the Wiener Werkstätte, the early 20th-century Viennese collective that championed handcraft in an age of mechanisation.
Two exhibitions and a lecture performance series examine the spaces between certainty and probability
Ryan Gander and Hac Vinent present new works alongside performances investigating luck, algorithms and social structures at Salzburger Kunstverein this summer.
Dutch excavation reveals well-preserved Ramesside period burial with rare coloured wall paintings
Archaeologists have uncovered a 3,000-year-old tomb on Luxor's west bank featuring brightly painted murals that provide valuable insights into elite burial practices during Egypt's New Kingdom period.
After a six-million-dollar restoration, the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street welcomes visitors to its newly accessible rooftop terrace, offering fresh perspectives on the city's architectural heritage.
The century-old civic skyscraper's restored cupola provides a unique vantage point, while revealing the overlooked story of Hettie Anderson, the Black model who inspired its iconic Civic Fame statue.
