Kordu: Arabo-Hangul Calligraphy

This installation will feature work by a wonderful artist I had the privilege of meeting last year, Azra Aksamija (http://www.azraaksamija.net/) — Penelope’s Labour — Weaving Words and Images Weavings from the collection of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Collection shown alongside new woven works by: Azra Akšamija, Lara Baladi, Manuel Franquelo, Carlos Garaicoa, Grayson Perry and Marc Quinn. Exhibition by Fondazione Giorgio Cini and Factum Arte. Curated by Adam Lowe Tapestry is the great example of image and word transformed by the materiality of its medium. For centuries, it was valued above paintings, its precious gold, silver and silk thread combining…

Sacred Space: Islamic Architecture 2.0. Maryam Eskandari, an architect at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT, currently has a traveling exhibit on American Mosques. Her exhibit, Sacred Space: (Re) Constructing the Place of Gender in the Space of Religion is touring the nation. 

Click the link to see the artwork. It’s a shame that extremism becomes a vicious downward spiral. They are ugly, so they take beauty out of the world, then they seem beautiful because there is not true beauty, and they make themselves uglier.  Muhammad – No. 72 – Mascot Mashup by Ian Cavalier – Translating famous characters into 8-bit art.