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Art Revolution in the Middle East
The Guardian Series Freetime paper (Waltham Forest) carried this article on Arts Canteen in May 2011. Arts Canteen Director, Aser El Saqqa, was interviewed by George Nott.
The Guardian Series Freetime paper (Waltham Forest) carried this article on Arts Canteen in May 2011. Arts Canteen Director, Aser El Saqqa, was interviewed by George Nott.
India Art Summit 2011
NEW DELHI— Arts Canteen Director, Aser El Saqqa, visited the Preview of the 2011 India Art Summit in January. The Summit provided clear signs of a burgeoning Indian art market. Strong sales were reported and first-time buyers were abundant, although the fair's organizers were challenged by security issues, both expected and unexpected — including threats by Hindu nationalists against the work of controversial artist M.F. Husain — and a surprise visit by Sonia Gandhi. The fair changed its timing from August to January this year and has grown in size, with the number of international galleries increasing from 17 to 34. Many galleries reported selling up to 80 percent of their works to first-time buyers, the Press Trust of India reports. Among Indian modern artists, F N Souza showed the strongest sales, while among European moderns, Pablo Picasso attracted the most buyers. Big sales were made to private collectors from the United States, China and Europe.. The works of many Indian contemporary artists sold well, particularly to museum buyers, including Subodh Gupta (who, in an unusual departure, showed paintings instead of sculp...
NEW DELHI— Arts Canteen Director, Aser El Saqqa, visited the Preview of the 2011 India Art Summit in January. The Summit provided clear signs of a burgeoning Indian art market. Strong sales were reported and first-time buyers were abundant, although the fair's organizers were challenged by security issues, both expected and unexpected — including threats by Hindu nationalists against the work of controversial artist M.F. Husain — and a surprise visit by Sonia Gandhi. The fair changed its timing from August to January this year and has grown in size, with the number of international galleries increasing from 17 to 34. Many galleries reported selling up to 80 percent of their works to first-time buyers, the Press Trust of India reports. Among Indian modern artists, F N Souza showed the strongest sales, while among European moderns, Pablo Picasso attracted the most buyers. Big sales were made to private collectors from the United States, China and Europe.. The works of many Indian contemporary artists sold well, particularly to museum buyers, including Subodh Gupta (who, in an unusual departure, showed paintings instead of sculp...
Hijaz - Chemsi
“Chemsi” is the new album by Belgian band ‘Hijaz’ (after the success of their debut album "Dunes"). "you can almost smell the aroma of Eastern spices floating out of the studio." This is essentially a jazz album, but one with a difference since the Arabic music scales, the instrumentation (mainly North African and Middle Eastern) and the influence of Greek Rembetika are so infused into the album that you can almost smell the aroma of Eastern spices floating out of the studio. Although the more familiar instruments of piano (Niko Deman), bass (Vincent Noiret) and drumkit (Chryster Aerts) are skilfully in evidence throughout, it’s the interplay between these and the traditional non-Western instruments that make this CD so interesting. The band describe it as “a marriage of the piano, great instrument from the Western musical tradition, with the stringed instrument that has become synonymous with the Middle East, the oud.” "shimmering atmospheric performances" The Tunisian Moufadhel Adhoum produces shimmering atmospheric performances on the oud (the arabic precursor to the lute and almost all Wes...
“Chemsi” is the new album by Belgian band ‘Hijaz’ (after the success of their debut album "Dunes"). "you can almost smell the aroma of Eastern spices floating out of the studio." This is essentially a jazz album, but one with a difference since the Arabic music scales, the instrumentation (mainly North African and Middle Eastern) and the influence of Greek Rembetika are so infused into the album that you can almost smell the aroma of Eastern spices floating out of the studio. Although the more familiar instruments of piano (Niko Deman), bass (Vincent Noiret) and drumkit (Chryster Aerts) are skilfully in evidence throughout, it’s the interplay between these and the traditional non-Western instruments that make this CD so interesting. The band describe it as “a marriage of the piano, great instrument from the Western musical tradition, with the stringed instrument that has become synonymous with the Middle East, the oud.” "shimmering atmospheric performances" The Tunisian Moufadhel Adhoum produces shimmering atmospheric performances on the oud (the arabic precursor to the lute and almost all Wes...
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