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A Coming of Age Told Through Paint

There are moments when language fails, when emotion becomes too heavy to carry or too tangled to explain. For Omani artist Hussain al Ghamlasi, those moments found their release not in words, but in paint. What began in...

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Passionate woodworker champions handmade crafts & Souvenirs

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Artist Alia al Farsi wants you to visit this fort to experience art right where history breathes

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What is Brutalism? And why do architects hate 'The Brutalist'?

The facade of Saint John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, is seen on February 18, 2025. On a snowy prairie in Minnesota stands a monastery like no other. For half a century, the existence of this masterpiece designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer, has been mainly known to the Benedictine monks who worship there, and the hordes of architects who make pilgrimages to Saint John's Abbey Church each summer. But these days, it is finding new fame as the basis for "The Brutalist," the epic drama about an immigrant architect, haunted by the Holocaust, that is a favorite to win best picture at the Oscars. (Photo by Kerem YUCEL / AFP)

She Designs the Book Covers You Judge

Visual artist Na Kim at her studio in New York on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.

Al Mouj Art shows incredible diversity and depth of the Omani art scene

Al Mouj Art shows incredible diversity and depth of the Omani art scene

Artists try to make Cameroon sing a different tune

Artists try to make Cameroon sing a different tune

Long-lost Camille Claudel sculpture fetches over ?3.1m at auction

Long-lost Camille Claudel sculpture fetches over ?3.1m at auction

Croatia laughter museum aims to blow away the blues

Visitors pose for pictures in a room at the HaHaHouse museum of laughter in central Zagreb, on January 21, 2025. The 450-square-metre (4,844-square-feet) museum, which opened in January, offers eight interactive zones and has also an educational part featuring the history of humour from ancient to modern times and via different formats -- theatre, film or Internet. (Photo by Damir SENCAR / AFP)

IDF expo highlights 2025 trends in interior design and furnishing

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For quake survivors, art brings healing in Turkey's Antioch

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Barry Humphries' personal items, including Dame Edna props, head to auction

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Bespoke mussar highlights beauty of material and rich culture of Oman

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Omani artist celebrates maternal influence in Stal Gallery exhibition

Omani artist celebrates maternal influence in Stal Gallery exhibition

Omani artist repurposes leftover wood to craft unique items

Omani artist repurposes leftover wood to craft unique items

'Mona Lisa' to get its own room in the Louvre as museum gets face-lift

France's President Emmanuel Macron gives a speech at the Louvre Museum in Paris on January 28, 2025.
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