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Sci-fi script and a cage-shaped mosque: Islamic art gets subversive

21-09-2021 18:27

From subtle riffs on traditional script-based decoration to a late father’s letters to his lover, the artists vying for the Jameel prize generate deep emotion from meticulousnessWords have had outsize importance in Muslim culture since the beginning. The Qur’an, which literally means “recitation”, was of course revered as the word of God. But, crucially, images of human beings and animals were disapproved of because they could distract people from prayer; as a result, art

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Alien script and a cage-shaped mosque: Islamic art gets subversive

21-09-2021 18:27

From subtle riffs on traditional script-based decoration to a late father’s letters to his lover, the artists vying for the Jameel prize generate deep emotion from meticulousnessWords have had outsize importance in Muslim culture since the beginning. The Qur’an, which literally means “recitation”, was of course revered as the word of God. But, crucially, images of human beings and animals were disapproved of because they could distract people from prayer; as a result, art

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Hepworth’s soothing sounds transport you – Yorkshire Sculpture International review

21-09-2021 13:05

Various venues, Yorkshire
An alternative audio tour of Barbara Hepworth’s works is pure poetry, while digital ghosts from slave voyages haunt us. But is there enough sculpture?In the early 20th century, a youthful Barbara Hepworth would observe “the granite sets, the steep hills of industrial Yorkshire, the scurrying of mill girls in their shawls” and “imagine stone ‘images’ rising out of the ground”. These reflections, captured in 1966 in Barbara Hepwor

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Flying colours: Photo Basel 2021 gets vibrant – in pictures

21-09-2021 08:00

Switzerland’s first and only art fair dedicated to photography is back with vivid images of fairytales, fabrics and firepower Continue reading...

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