Christie’s first Abu Dhabi fine art auction raised $8.9 million, led by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s $844,800 Hexagon. See the full results. More
Watch Muscat Art 2026 in Oman, featuring more than 300 international artists and 1,500 artworks at the fifth edition of the contemporary art exhibition. More
Discover Sotheby’s first Abu Dhabi fine art auction, featuring Andy Warhol, Claude Monet and leading Arab artists, with works estimated at up to $9.08 million. More
Are we witnessing an image of growth, or a fragile presence suspended in an expansive, ambiguous space? This painting by the late Farideh Lashai, despite its apparent simplicity, evokes a relationship between presence and absence, stability and suspension, and emergence and disappearance. More
With remarkable skill, the young painter Fatemeh Ahmadian brings traditional miniature painting to the threshold of contemporaneity, articulating contemporary concerns through a classical visual language. She also speaks of pain and tragedy within a richly colored, beautiful visual world. Ahmadian… More
Christie’s first Abu Dhabi fine art auction raised $8.9 million, led by Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s $844,800 Hexagon. See the full results.
Fatemeh Ahmadian and Her Painting Arash the Archer / A Reinterpretation of Myth
Shadi Habib’s The Geometry of Survival brings together the natural characteristics of wood—its cavities, fractures, and variations in texture—to create a composition in which the boundary between natural form and artistic intervention is intriguingly blurred. Rather than relying on the…
The trees of Abolghasem Saidi, abundant in colour and light, distinguish his work from that of other nature-oriented painters. He creates an independent poetic world, perhaps rooted in nostalgia, yet overflowing with life—as though no autumn could ever harm it.
Watch Muscat Art 2026 in Oman, featuring more than 300 international artists and 1,500 artworks at the fifth edition of the contemporary art exhibition.
The fifth edition of the Baran Auction, specializing in calligraphy, Iranian and Islamic art, concluded with 86% of the works offered successfully sold, achieving total sales of 369.06 billion tomans (approximately $1.367 million). The highest-priced work of the auction was hammered down at 79…
Mehrdad Fallah: An Aesthetic Re-reading of Painting, from Figuration and Line to Cultural Memory
50 Photos of Artworks at the 5th Baran Auction in Tehran / From an 800-Year-Old Quran to Calligraphic Works by Mir Emad and Darvish Abd al-Majid, Works by Mirza Agha Emami, and Dozens of Cultural Treasures
A tree, wounded by a bullet approximately 250 years ago, eventually finds its way to Mohamadali Vadood, inspiring him to create A Shot at Hyrcania. The work emerges from the concept of his internationally developed project, WOOD ALL WOOD, in which some of the wood fragments used are themselves a…
Curated by Art Jameel curator Lucas Morin, ‘At the Edge of Land’ brings together works from the Art Jameel Collection,…
DISOVER MOREThe fair will showcase Emirati artist Shaikha Al Mazrou as the Visual Campaign Artist for 2025.
