Eventful Category
secretary } opening night photos by mohammed alkandari
Posted on October 27, 2014 1 Comment
Listen to Amazed by Poe Finally my brother Mohammed’s long-awaited photos from Secretary opening night. I love that he shoots in black and white, and when he shoots in color it’s always so vibrant. I can’t thank him enough for always being so supportive. Big hug.
secretary } opening night photos by jenny casanova
Posted on October 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
Listen to Woe Be Gone by Ani DiFranco, off the Sombreve playlist: Apart from having the coolest name ever, Jenny Casanova took some really lively photos at the opening of Secretary. She was the lady with the red-cased mini-iPad standing in the corners taking candid shots.Thank you, Jenny, for sharing these with me.
Monira Al Qadiri|The Tragedy of Self
Posted on April 13, 2011 2 Comments
I am so happy that I made it to Monira Al Qadiri’s solo exhibition The Tragedy of Self, at the Sultan Gallery last night. However, I could just kick myself in the bum for not taking my camera with me (I’m disappointed in myself for allowing this dust to keep me from going back this […]
Thuraya Al-Baqsami|Retrospective Exhibition 1970-2011
Posted on March 16, 2011 Leave a Comment
sergei, 1977, pastels on paper: it is a common (and quite ignorant) misperception in this part of the world that artists who take any path other than the realist one, can’t draw. these are the laypeople. i don’t think they understand that shifting away from realism is a choice the artist makes and not just […]
Ghadah Alkandari|Stories of Eves
Posted on March 11, 2011 3 Comments
Ten days left. Or is it nine? I’m starting to feel a bit of the buzz I usually get a few weeks before any exhibition. The butterflies I usually reserve for opening day. That’s when I can’t sit still and it’s best to avoid me. Cross the bridge for a map to Gallery Tilal.
Kuwait’s First Half Marathon
Posted on March 3, 2011 1 Comment
Seeing as I’m as fit as a loaf of bread, I won’t be running the half-marathon this month but will volunteer on Saturday, March 19th. Follow the jerboa and she’ll take you to the Kuwait Charity Run website. You go, girls!
Exhibition 50/20 Part II|The Sultan Gallery
Posted on February 21, 2011 6 Comments
I know I said the last time that I finally made it to the first installment of The Sultan Gallery’s 50/20 Exhibition. But this time I finally, finally made it. It’s been a week since the show opened. I like the whole idea of having two parts of a show, version one and version two. […]
Exhibition 50/20|The Sultan Gallery
Posted on February 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
I finally managed to make it to The Sultan Gallery this morning for a much-anticipated group show Exhibition 50/20. Most of the artists exhibiting here, when you put them in a room together, you’re going to get something like this: the ugly beautiful, the beautiful ugly, gender mish-mashes, political hodgepodge, religious under-, over- and […]
PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition|November 9, 2010
Posted on November 10, 2010 18 Comments
For all the hardships endured in getting this exhibition up and ready, I would say that the opening went quite smoothly. And I think I might have even enjoyed it a little too much for a girl whose legs were about to collapse into a fleshy pile around her feet. But enough of my wobbly […]
Notes & Doodles|Green Caravan Film Festival 2010
Posted on October 30, 2010 1 Comment
I’m patting myself on the back for volunteering to do some booth work at the Green Caravan Film Festival starting tomorrow. Of course what I will be doing there is nothing compared to the organizational efforts put forth by the festival’s founders Sandra Al-Saleh and Reham Al-Samerai. The event is free of charge. And of course […]
PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition
Posted on October 12, 2010 3 Comments
I have started the official countdown to my upcoming exhibition, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition. Just typing this has aroused the dormant butterflies in my stomach. I’m not going to go into details of the exhibition because, although I have a general feel of what I want, I know my ideas and thoughts will shift, expand and possibly […]
Teddy B’s Exhibition
Posted on October 6, 2010 3 Comments
I went to the highly anticipated (well, I was excited!) Teddy B exhibition last night at the Sultan Gallery. As expected, the gallery was swarming with Kuwait’s haves, have-nots, and would-probably-like-to-have-a-little-bit-mores. I’m not going to go into the noble little stories of Teddy, you can find those here. But I will talk about the exhibition […]
Contemporary Art Auction|17 February 2010|Kuwait
Posted on February 18, 2010 Leave a Comment
I didn’t attend the auction last night so asked PH7 photographer Khaled Al-Saleh to send me some photos. It was fun going through them and seeing who was there from the comfort of my own room!
Contemporary Art Auction|17 February 2010|Kuwait
Posted on February 18, 2010 3 Comments
I am very happy to announce that the auction last night raked in over half a million dollars! 30% of the proceeds will benefit K’s Path, which aims to bridge the gap between the humans and animals who call this country their home. And because things happen or tend to be clumped in threes, I’m […]
Contemporary Art Auction|February 2010|Kuwait
Posted on February 17, 2010 Leave a Comment
So last night was the big viewing I was looking very forward to. I didn’t want this to be a rant, but. It’s going to be a rant. It started with physical tears upon seeing my beloved painting behind a tinted-blue display window, and mental ones before falling asleep at night.
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Posted on February 8, 2010 2 Comments
“The Girl & Her Giant Schnauzer Iber is a painting I did especially for this auction. I was asked to participate at a time when I was seriously contemplating adopting a cat, so I had animals on my mind. Now, after weeks of both failed and successful photo sessions involving a humongous dog, a few […]
