New York-based Pakistani artist Saks Afridi’s work explores the paradox of being an insider/outsider, looking at notions of belonging and temporary permanence, and our search for happiness within these states....
Art dealer and curator Jean-David Malat will open his eponymous gallery on 11 June with Metanoia, an exhibition of new work by London-based Norwegian artist Henrik Uldalen After over a...
Every two years, the prestigious Jameel Prize, on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, awards the best in contemporary Islamic arts, craft and design. Here is the...
Tahir Salahov is one of Azerbaijan’s greatest painters, renowned for his grim yet accurate depictions of life under communist rule. His influence and subversiveness extended across the sphere of Soviet...
As Spring begins and her subject, the landscape, starts to bloom, we speak with impressionist artist Kamilla Valiyeva about her process, passion for portraiture and the idyllic French pastime of...
Whether dealing with displacement or navigating the online world, artists today are exploring innovative new ideas of what ‘home’ could mean. For some, this means questioning nationhood and statelessness, imagining...
A little more than a century ago, Baku was home to the world’s first great oil rush, and the city turned into an art nouveau gem. Now its oil barons’...
On 1 April famed Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto's solo exhibition, Do It, will open at Yarat Contemporary Art Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, the non-profit organization founded by artists and established in...
With her newest exhibition, Non Imagined Perspectives, launching today at YARAT Contemporary Art Space in Baku, Sophie Breitsameter talks to artist and founder of YARAT, Aida Mahmudova, about the inspiration...
Daniel Malva is a Brazilian artist whose work aims to illustrate our inability to see and feel natural world around us, particularly in his best-known series, Natural History Museum, created...