Egyptian icon Umm Kulthum has been featured on Rolling Stone magazine’s “200 Greatest Singers of All Time” list– the only Arab artist to have made the selection. The singer was ranked as number 61 on the prestigious list. The Arab superstar was born on May 4, 1904 in a village in Egypt. Upon discovering her…
By Ayesha Sohail Shehmir Shaikh The second edition of Purificacion Garcia’s ‘Thinker Program’ has spread the initiative to the Kingdom of Saudi, focusing on emerging female talents from the region. The program involves reinterpreting the brand’s iconic bags with the participating artist’s own creative spin. Hailing from Jeddah, the three female artists; painter Huda Beydoun, calligrapher Mawadah Muhtasib…
January 30, 2023
The artist, who is now in her 90s and voluntarily living in a psychiatric hospital, has a major retrospective under way in Hong Kong The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is the subject of a major retrospective at the M+ museum in Hong Kong (until 14 May 2023). To accompany the show, the museum and Thames & Hudson have published an extensive…