Currently the Museum of Modern Art in New York is displaying an exhibition: "Without Boundary: Seventeen Ways of Looking" — in which the word Islam does not appear. Nevertheless, all but three of the featured artists were born in some part of the so-called Islamic world: Algeria, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine and Turkey. They all live and work in the West and have made their careers in the mainstream international art scene, which means in Europe and the United States. Despite their Western positioning, they are routinely tagged as Islamic artists by an art world addicted to marketable categories.
The exhibition is discussed further in the NYT Arts section article, What Does Islam Look Like? And for more on the creations of Muslim artists working in a Western context check out:
muslim artists look back at the west
contemporary art from the islamic world
All three links give a more complex picture the Muslim world which contrasts with the iconoclasm which is more well-known (especially in the wake of things like the recent cartoon issue or the Buddha statues in Afghanistan)
The exhibition is discussed further in the NYT Arts section article, What Does Islam Look Like? And for more on the creations of Muslim artists working in a Western context check out:
muslim artists look back at the west
contemporary art from the islamic world
All three links give a more complex picture the Muslim world which contrasts with the iconoclasm which is more well-known (especially in the wake of things like the recent cartoon issue or the Buddha statues in Afghanistan)
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