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Focal Point: our top five picks from the Sharjah art book fair


foundation for the four-day
, the fair
takes place outside in the large courtyard of Bait Al Shamsi and is slightly scaled back due to safety concerns over the coronavirus, with no publishers present
in person and less live programming. In the past, related events have include a lecture-performance with
Berlin s
The focus for this year
is on books, magazines and zines from the
Middle East, Africa and South Asia, with a number of small print-run Arab titles including the magazine
Khaleejes
que; publications from Sudan’s Dabanga Gallery; and the
Kayfa Ta book series from Amman and Cairo. Local galleries and institutions are also pitching up, with sellers including the Africa Institute, Art Jameel, the Emirates Fine Arts Society and Warehouse421. ....

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CNN CNN Special Report March 4, 2015 05:52:00

Work was sold for about $84 million. and the new york times is reporting this sold for $300 million just last month. rumor has it the qatar museum wrote the check. but whoever did, it is the most expensive painting ever sold. so if you want people to know that you re mega rich, there s no better way to do that than to buy expensive art. who are these people spending billions? jonathan stone is the chairman of asia art and joins us from hong kong. jonathan, the theory is back in the old days, it used to be the oil sheikhs or the wealthy chinese businessmen snapping up these pieces. does that still hold today? i think one of the great things about the art market is the way it s exploded in the last year. and also the great things is the number of new people coming into ....

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