Sorella Acosta, director and curator of the Barcelona-based Out of Africa (OOA) Gallery, talks to ArtScoops about the need to acknowledge the diverse nature of art from the continent and how several artists were already ahead of the curve when the Black Lives Matter movement took to the streets   What ignited your passion for African...

Rebecca Anne Proctor, a journalist currently based in Dubai and the former editor in chief of Harper’s Bazaar Art and Harper’s Bazaar Interiors, talks to ArtScoops about the addictive quality of African art and what a post-coronavirus art scene might look like     What are your thoughts on the buzz surrounding African art...

Picasso, the pandemic and post-colonial responsibilities are just some of the topical and timely issues explored by Christian Sulger-Buel, director of the Sulger-Buel Gallery in London, in this latest ArtScoops’ exclusive. Words by Miriam Dunn.     Africa’s contemporary art scene is generating unprecedented levels of interest. What...

A Facebook group called StayHome: MakeArt (Budding Talents Aged 3-8), set up by the multimedia artist Maysaloun Faraj, is providing aspiring young artists with a welcome channel for creativity during lockdown, as Miriam Dunn discovered   The Tiger who Came to Tea by Ayla (aged 4)   What was the inspiration for the StayHome:...

The multi-media artist Fadi El Chamaa tells ArtScoops why he doesn’t see his long-lasting love affair with portraiture ending anytime soon   You refer to your work as ‘A Hymn to Freedom’. How did this definition or description of your art come about? I’ve never wanted to be constrained by borders in my work, viewing it more as a...

Michelle Maluf tells ArtScoops about giving age-old Colombian weaving techniques a contemporary Lebanese twist in her eye-catching tapestries     In her youth, the visual artist Michelle Maluf loved nothing better than whiling away the hours watching the talented women weavers practising their craft on the top floor of her father’s...

Nayla Romanos Iliya talks to Ahmad Minkara about her new, Dante-inspired public installation, titled ‘On the Other Side of Time’     There’s something ironic about the fact that the multi-disciplinary artist, designer and trained architect Nayla Romanos Iliya was forced to postpone the launch of her large-scale public installation,...

From ill-conceived judgment calls to the symphonic sounds of Beirut street life, poignant childhood memories combine to create a rich and telling tapestry in Tony Seker’s art     While decades have passed since the Lebanese-born artist Tony Seker found himself sporadically uprooted with his family to escape conflict, those years...

Lebanese artist Tamara Haddad talks to ArtScoops about her all-encompassing bid to relay both the earth’s beauty and the damage we’re doing to it in her work   You began painting while still working in advertising and graphic design. Was it something you were interested in as a child? I actually started painting while at the...