Naima Morelli

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February, 2025 Monthly archive
Seeing Is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme - Mathaf

My second article for the Art Newspaper France is “Gérôme in Qatar: an updated look at Orientalism.”

With the exhibition “Seeing is Believing: The Art and Influence of Gérôme” at the Mathaf – Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar is positioning itself as the bridgehead for a new chapter in the history of Orientalism.

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1-54 Marrakech 2025. [Courtesy Mohamed Lakhdar]

Small but well-curated, the 1/54 art fair in Marrakech aims to be the gateway for African art, while fostering the local Moroccan art scene. I have reported on the event for Middle East Monitor.

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Nadia Saikali and Her Contemporaries show at Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah

The show “Nadia Saikali and Her Contemporaries” at Maraya Art Centre in Sharjah until 2 August is dedicated to pioneering abstract artist Saikali, and the influence that she had on modernism in the Arab world and beyond.

This is the first of two pieces which I have written of the show, and has been just published by Middle East Monitor.

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