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Khiyal: Where Leather Carries the Memory of Oman

It begins with a bag, not simply resting on a table, but telling a story reaching outside the Sultanate of Oman! Its leather is carefully shaped and stitched by hand, while elements inspired by Oman’s traditional safah...

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Greek potter keeps ancient ways alive, wins UNESCO recognition

Nikos Kouvdis, 70, works in his pottery workshop using traditional methods in Agios Stefanos village, near Mandamados on the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece, September 23, 2024. His family’s dedication to preserving the craft was recently honored with inclusion in UNESCO’s National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage. REUTERS/Elias Marcou

The Fabric Art Initiative: Weaving Heritage into Entrepreneurship

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Raneen Festival to open in Muttrah highlighting local and global talents

Raneen Festival to open in Muttrah highlighting local and global talents

Sculptor Gormley hopes art can be bridge to China despite curbs

Sculptor Gormley hopes art can be bridge to China despite curbs

The women behind Zimbabwe's striking hut painting art

A child mimics her grandmother Peggy Masuku's (not pictured) painting skills at their homestead in Matobo, Matabeleland on September 29, 2024. With its picturesque granite hills and balancing rocks, Matobo Hills is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site, having the highest concentration of known rock paintings on the African continent, dating back to over a dozen millenia and has places that are considered sacred across Zimbabwe痴 various ethnic groups. (Photo by Zinyange Auntony / AFP)

Omani talent breaking new ground with Yazatas

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Top art collector displays rare treasures in Madrid

Spanish-born businessman and art collector, resident in Mexico, Juan Antonio Perez Simon, poses in Madrid on November 8, 2024. Perez Simon's lifelong passion for art has led to a collection boasting 4,000 paintings, drawings, sculptures and decorative objects by masters such as Van Gogh, Sisley, Picasso, Rubens, Goya, Monet, Renoir, Magritte and Rothko. The new art-exhibition at Madrid's grandiose Cibeles Palace, "70 great masters of the Perez Simon collection", runs to mid-January and is awash with gems ranging from the 16th century to today. (Photo by Pierre-Philippe MARCOU / AFP)

This Omani art installation reminds of resilience of nature in urban setting

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Oman blooms in Seoul

Omani floral work on display by Madhvi Ramesh Khimji's at World Flower Council, Seoul

A celebration of art and emotion at Gallery Sarah

A contemporary art solo exhibition titled ‘Journey of Souls’ by Dr Shalini Gupta Kumar (1)

Europe’s last Lenin museum to close in Finland

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Andy Warhol artworks stolen in the Netherlands

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Dazzling mural art show concludes in Sur

Muscat Art Fair explores interwoven worlds of innovation, artistry and identity

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Oman set to dazzle Dubai Design Week as Altqadum Group hosts unique cultural performance

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