An ongoing art exhibition at Mathaf, Arab Museum of Modern Art, is a peek into the art history of Qatar and how the thriving ...

Exhibition highlights include “The Dam” by Ali Cherri, “Banel & Adama” by Ramata-Toulaye Sy, “Bab Sebta” by Randa Maroufi, ...

The newest of these is the Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art. And unlike the Guggenheim in Dubai or the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, the Mathaf is not a branch of a Western museum. It will be home to ...

See About archive blog posts. Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art, is set to open Dec. 30 in Doha, Qatar, and it’s safe to say that it’s one of the most eagerly awaited new museums of the year.

It’s part of a new vision for the museum, affectionately known among locals as Mathaf (Arabic for “museum”). As Qatar has established a flashy vision of a global arts center — with several ...

“I know I’m not supposed to because it’s problematic, but I really love Gérôme’s work,” a visitor said sheepishly at the entrance of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha ahead of ...

When the London-based Mathaf Gallery opened in 1975, Orientalist painting was a deeply unfashionable genre among the avant-garde. Pre-modernist, figurative, decorative, and redolent of Victorian ...

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art has opened four unique exhibitions yesterday, which discuss an array of thought-provoking themes spanning different generations and contexts. The shows ...

In the second coming of its Focus series, Mathaf, the Arab Museum of Modern Art, in Doha is showcasing the key works of Emirati artist Hassan Sharif that are ever relevant in conceptualising ...

Her words resonated with me as I walked around El Anatsui’s retrospective Trimuphant Scale at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art in Doha, Qatar. The beauty of his work is at once bewildering and ...

Main picture shows the outside of the Doha Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art Today I won’t write about an important hyper museum or an incredible land mark but about an interesting museum for modern ...

Installation view of Huguette Caland: Faces and Places, 2020, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (all images courtesy Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art) Success! Your account was created and ...