Gimme culture! Arts blossom in Gulf Arab desert
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Long derided as a cultural desert, the Gulf art scene is beginning to blossom.
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Salvador Dali never set foot in this Gulf Coast city where the dominant art form is the watercolor beachscape. But in a strange twist worthy of one of the Spanish surrealist master&#039;s paintings, St. Petersburg will soon be home to a new &#36;30 million signature museum to house the world&#039;s most comprehensive collection of Dali&#039;s work.
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A relatively rousing close to MoMAÂs sterile display of contemporary works &#151; touching on desolation, waste, abuse of power, injustice, loss and death &#151; makes a trip to the current exhibition worthwhile.
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Hollywood, Bollywood and Arab stars  descended on Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival  that sees itself as a cultural bridge between the West and the  Arab world.
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Young Arabs are turning to hip hop to express their feelings about  conflicts in the Middle East
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No bombs. No bloodshed. No bin Laden.  Belly dancing is the theme Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch says  can best communicate the Arab world to the West and reconcile  cultural differences.
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Doha: Works by cartoonists in the Arab press should depict what the West should learn about the Arab world, says leading French cartoonist, Jean Plantureux, best known as Plantu.
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DUBAI (Reuters Life!) - Demand for contemporary art in the Gulf Arab region, will remain robust and unscathed from recent financial market jitters, the director of one of the Middle East's biggest art sales centers said on Thursday.
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Art education is a strange and surprising enterprise. It makes memories as important as celebration, traditions as crucial as innovation.
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At Peter SellarsÂs New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna, a cross-pollination of human and artistic cultures has yielded wonderful results.
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This year's Frankfurt Book Fair opens its doors to Arab writers by inviting writers from Middle East countries to the annual literary festival.
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In a ceremony as lavish as the Arabian  Nights, Dubai wrapped up its third international film festival  on Sunday night with new cash awards for Arab cinema scooped up  by Algerian, Tunisian and Palestinian films.
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The Royal Shakespeare Company has brought Middle East politics to Stratford-upon-Avon with a production of &quot;Richard III&quot; set in an oil-rich Gulf state and performed largely in Arabic.
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The art scene is booming like never before. A guide to understanding the madness, bracing for the backlash and enjoying it while it lasts.
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Indian and Western artistes collaborate with each other.
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The Metropolitan Museum's groundbreaking show exhibits archaeological wonders that reveal China's creative engagement with the rest of the world.
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No bombs. No bloodshed. No bin Laden. Belly dancing is the theme Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch says can best communicate the Arab world to the West and reconcile cultural differences.