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November 2011
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YAP at MoMA PS1: "Holding Pattern" by Interboro Partners
TateShots: 
Turner Prize 2011 
George Shaw 
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News Highlights
Passion For Art
Art Calendar
Art Escape
Olafur Eliasson: 
Your Body of Work
Poussin, Courbet, Fragonard. The private passion of Jeff Koons
Paris Tableau, Palais de la Bourse Paris,  4 - 8 Nov
THE STUDIO
Jabbar Al Ghadban
Solo Exhibition
Alriwaq Art Space, Bahrain
1 - 30 Nov
The Flamboyant 
Mr Chinnery (1774-1852)
An English Artist in India and China
Asia House, London
4 Nov - 21 Jan 2012
Art Fair
Iranian American artist
Reza Karimi 
talks about his
46 years of artlife in 
New York 
Art Award
Famed interior designer Juan Montoya designs Art Miami VIP lounge
MIAMI.  ART MIAMI, Miami’s longest
running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the City of Miami has partnered with its official host hotel,
Mandarin Oriental, Miami to engage
interior designer Juan Montoya to design an 
Zaha Hadid celebrates the launch of her third London project, the Roca London Gallery 
LONDON. ZAHA HADID Architects and Roca are delighted to announce the opening of a brand new flagship space, the Roca London Gallery, at Imperial Wharf close to Chelsea Harbour. 
Noon By Noor celebrates 
a return to earth
BAHRAIN. THE SPRING/SUMMER 2012 Boho-Blossom inspired collection celebrates a return to earth in an alluring display of magnificent colors and concepts, using the most luxurious 
Maurizio 
Cattelan
First Retrospective
Guggenheim, NY
4 Nov - Jan 2012
Alice in Wonderland 
Tate Liverpool, 4 Nov - 29 Jan 2012
Saks Fifth Avenue - Bahrain, until 8 Nov
Albareh Art Gallery  from 9 - 24 Nov
Safaa Alset 
Solo exhibition
Diego Rivera: Murals for 
The Museum 
of Modern Art 
The Michael H. Dunn Gallery, 
second floor 
13 Nov - 14 May 2012 
DAVID SMITH: 
CUBES AND ANARCHY
Whitney Museum of American Art
6 Oct - 8 Jan 2012
IN THE FIRST CIRCLE. 
A PROJECT BY IMOGEN STIDWORTHY
Fundació Antoni Tàpies Barcelona
until 5 Feb 2012
A PASSION FOR NATURE: Landscape Painting from 
19th Century France
Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) 
until 20 Feb 2012
State of Nature: Western Canadian Landscapes from the AGA Collection, 1980 to the Present
Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) 
until 20 Feb 2012
Cédric Guilleminot
« Ice Dreams »
JAS Gallery, Paris 
3 Nov - 24 Dec
ORGANICUS MUNDUS
Bénédicte Gimonnet 
Khalidiya Plalace by Rotana
Abu Dhabi, 1 - 19 Nov
SWISS ART GATE UAE
Fatema Al Mazrouie
Xerxes Art, LONDON
until 30 Nov 
In Collaboration with Salwa Zeidan Gallery, Abu Dhabi
Palais de la Bourse, Paris 
4 - 8 Nov
Art Nova: 42 galleries present recent works by 104 artists
16 – 19 November, 2011
UAE Pavilion
Manarat Al Saadiyat, 
Saadiyat Island 
Abu Dhabi, UAE
ART MIAMI
RETURNS
FOR ITS
22nd 
EDITION
Wynwood Arts
District
29 Nov - 4 Dec
Qassim Haddad's Book launch
Tarafa bin Al Warda
Alriwaq Art Space
Bahrain
2 Oct
IMPRINT 
2011 
Kulisiewicz International Graphic Arts Triennial 
in Warsaw
15 Oct
2011 Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 
Sotheby’s October 2011
Contemporary Art/Arab & Iranian and Arts of the Islamic World 
Sales Total £10,901,275/$16,843,460
Q&A with Peter Quanz, Kinsun Chan and Fei Bo three of today’s most promising contemporary choreographers  
Moments In Time - two world premières by Chinese choreographers
ACAP 2012 Artist
Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Opening 1 Nov
PARIS TABLEAU
First International Art Fair Dedicated 
To Old Master Paintings
ART IN IRAQ TODAY: CONCLUSION
MEEM GALLERY EXHIBITS THE WORK OF CONTEMPORARY IRAQI ARTISTS
Meem Gallery is pleased to present the conclusion show of the Art in Iraq Today exhibition series. 
The exhibition will include selected works by the artists displayed during Parts I - V of the series (held from October 2010 - May 2011). The show, curated by Dia Al-Azzawi and Charles Pocock, and its supporting publication, is dedicated to the memory of Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and his seminal essays on modern Iraqi art, titled ‘Art in Iraq Today.’ A group show of the artists’ work will also open at the Beirut Exhibition Center on 23 November (organised by Solidere, Meem Galley and Rula Alami Zaki).
VECKA nr. II 
Artist's Book by 
Modhir Ahmed
excerpts from 
GALLERIET by
TOMAS TRANSTROMER
2011 Nobel Prize 
for Literature
Artist Book
STOP PRESS!!!
Four Artist Invitational Exhibition 
Art Association of Harrisburg, PA
Curated by Terrie Hosey
21 Oct
Art Market
A four-artist Invitational Exhibition opened at the Art Association of Harrisburg
with a meet-the-artist reception on Friday, October 21. Featured in the exhibition are “Transformations” artwork by digital artist Eric Olson. The three other artists showing works are oil landscape painters Carol Herr of Quarryville, Martin M. Pieczonka of Phoenixville, and artist Brooke Schmidt of
Wyndmoor. The exhibition will remain open to the public until November 23, 2011.
MANAMA CAPITAL OF ARAB
CULTURE 2012 
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RON TERADA:BEING THERE
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)Chicago
5 Nov - 15 Jan 2012
"The artistic process is a narrative-in-the-making: choices are made, others are discarded. To track and trace these narratives respectively for all five projects, and then find a contextualising form - discursive as well as in display - will be my challenge"
Nat
ACAP 2012 Guest Curator
Muller
Taysir Batniji
ACAP 2012 winner, discusses the methods he employs in creating art 
and the inherent 
challenges in 
having a 
career 
as a 
artist 
from 
Palestine