British Museum show and book by Venetia Porter tap into rich seam of works by non-Western artists

Opening in time for the Sharjah Biennial, the Kalba Ice Factory building boasts 20,000 sq. m exhibition space

Two years after an explosion caused billions of dollars of damage, the Beirut Museum of Art has broken ground in the Lebanese capital

The Shiraz-born artist tells us how she became an artist after a bad cycling accident and why what is happening in Iran is “no longer a protest, it’s a revolution”

The Geneva-based International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas is to open a second office in 2023 in Riyadh

The artist and activist, described as the ‘mother of Arabic revolutionary art’ has work in the collections of the British Museum and the Ashmolean

After 18-month closure, Qatar gallery to relaunch on 5 October in time for Fifa World Cup

Case has so far seen Middle Eastern works seized from New York's Met and the indictment of a former Louvre director

French curators take the reins at the country's new museums

Several of her works are held in the British Museum collection and a major public work stands outside Paris's Institut du monde arabe

Proposal was put forward by 16 Arabic-speaking countries

Agencies seem to be betting that time and increased exposure to the kingdom will wear down Western qualms over its human rights record

Exhibition of more than 70 of the artist's works at Sharjah Art Museum in the UAE includes rare works from her first ever show in 1947

We ask artists, writers and experts on Middle Eastern art about their memories of the revolutionary movements—and what they think the lasting legacies are

The abstract painter transformed the art scene in post-colonial Morocco

In the absence of the major fairs and auctions, Modern and contemporary African art is in the spotlight in London this week

Lebanon Then and Now: Photography from 2006 to 2020 hosted by Washington, DC's Middle East Institute is both timely and prescient

Belgian non-profit Mophradat says that 100% of the money raised will support individual artists and arts organisations

With homes, galleries and studios entirely destroyed, Lebanese artists respond in the aftermath of Tuesday’s carnage

Several galleries and museums have been destroyed or severely damaged following the blast and fire that shook the Lebanese capital on Tuesday

Heritage group Athar were part of a campaign highlighting the social media giants' “black market in antiquities”

Rose Issa, curator and friend of the artist, shares the life story of one of the most important sculptors in the Arab world

The commissioning project Consortium Commissions provides artists with up to $20,000 to realise their projects

Free exhibition at the London museum in October will show around 150 works that have been collected since the early 1990s

Works from the Abraaj Group Art Prize will be managed by Art Jameel with some works going on show at the Dubai space Jameel Art Centre

Inaugural edition of the monumental show, opening this Friday, is free to the public

March auction will return to the Emirate in spring 2021, but is cancelled this year due to new strategy and constrained supply of works

Three months into the uprising we speak to Abed Al Kadiri about popular unity, state brutality and why he is documenting events through Chinese-style ink drawings

Exhibition of street artist Bahia Shehab's work opens at Aga Khan Centre Gallery in King's Cross