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Art Basel Qatar unveils highlights for its first edition in February 2026
Art Basel Qatar - with Visit Qatar as the fair's Lead Partner - will be held from 5-7 February 2026 (with Preview Days from 3-4 February), across Msheireb Downtown Doha venues M7 and Doha Design District, as well as other locations and venues in the area.
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Faramarz Pilaram and the Sacred Rotation in the Raha Gallery Collection
This painting by the late master Faramarz Pilaram is a rare example of the fusion of script, color, rhythm, texture, and ritual in modern Iranian art. It demonstrates how Pilaram transformed the language of calligraphy into a painterly one—a language neither textual nor purely abstract, but one that preserves Iran’s cultural memory within the framework of modernism.
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Mojdeh Tabatabaei — Director of Mojdeh Gallery and Founding Figure of the First Tehran Art Fair
Mojdeh Tabatabaei, Director of Mojdeh Gallery, emphasizes that over the past decade, art fairs have become the most powerful engines driving the global art market. According to her, statistics clearly show that regional countries, through a strategic and intelligent use of art fairs, have secured their position on the global cultural map. Iran, she notes, lacks nothing in terms of artistic capacity; it only needs a standardized infrastructure to reclaim its rightful share of the rapidly expanding cultural economy.
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6 Record-Making Masterpieces of Civilizational and Traditional Art at Baran Auction
In four editions of the Baran Auction — a specialized auction for calligraphy, Islamic art, and traditional civilizational works — many pieces have achieved remarkable records. Six such works are introduced in this article.
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UAE National Day and the Painting of Mehrdad Fallah
In this mixed-media work, Mehrdad Fallah presents a contemporary visual narrative of the UAE’s national identity through an eloquent interplay of color, texture, composition, and symbolic form. The presence of gold—applied with genuine gold leaf—emerges like a sacred radiance against the textured background, a luminosity that unmistakably conveys notions of grandeur, prosperity, and flourishing. It reflects today’s UAE as a young yet powerful and internationally recognized nation.