Art
Designers Remix Corporate Logos to Reflect Human Rights Abuses in Qatar
A logo is a sacred thing in business. Consumers use them to identify trusted companies that make dependable products.
Qatar
In Brief
Zaha Hadid Files Defamation Suit Over Labor Criticism
Architect Zaha Hadid, who designed the Al Wakrah stadium in Qatar currently in its initial stages of construction, recently filed a lawsuit against New York Review of Books architecture critic Martin Filler, Dezeen reported.
In Brief
Zaha Hadid Qatar World Cup Stadium Laborers Paid a Pittance
A Guardian investigation has found that migrant workers building architect Zaha Hadid's World Cup stadium in Qatar are being paid at a level beneath what's mandated by World Cup regulations.
Art
Thoughts on Richard Serra in Qatar
DOHA, Qatar — This spring, Richard Serra has made his mark on the Arab Gulf in a characteristically big way. Several important pieces are currently on view in Qatar, two of them permanent installations commissioned by the Qatar Museums Authority (QMA).
Art
Zaha Hadid Is an Awful Human Being, Says "Not My Duty" to Prevent Migrant Worker Deaths
Starchitect Zaha Hadid's statement this week to a British newspaper suggests that she is severely lacking in the conscience department.
Art
What Does It Mean to Be a Cultural Disrupter?
Coverage of the visual arts in the New York Times hit a new low last weekend in its Arts & Leisure feature, “The Disrupters,” a roundup of interviews with “people who broke the rules” during 2013, “a year of cultural upheaval.”
Opinion
Monuments, Man: Charlie Rose Gets Weird with Richard Serra
For his third-to-last show of 2013, professional interlocutor Charlie Rose brought on lapsed steelworker Richard Serra for a conversation about the artist's ongoing exhibition of new sculptures at the Gagosian Gallery.
Art
Moral Distortions: Versailles, Qatar, and Kings
With inadvertent timeliness, a retrospective of the world’s richest artist opened in one of the world’s richest cities in the middle of the run of Robert Polidori’s elegiac photography exhibition, Versailles.
Opinion
The Perils of Public Sculpture in Qatar
Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.
Opinion
How to Buy Your Way to the Front Page of the NY Times
In a sensational front page story, today's New York Times announces what the art world has long known: "Qatari Riches Are Buying Art World Influence." Yes, the Qataris — and other Gulf monarchs — are rapidly amassing a motherlode of contemporary art, and in the process likely driving up art prices w
News
Qatar Buys World's Most Expensive Painting, $250M for Cézanne's The Card Players
Today we learn that the nation of Qatar, which is quietly building a very expensive collection of modern and contemporary art, acquired Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players" for the tune of $250 million in 2011.
News
Shocker of the Day: Qatar World's Biggest Contemporary Art Buyer
You may know Qatar as the home of Al Jazeera but this small kingdom in the Persian Gulf is proving itself a major contemporary art buyer, according to the Art Newspaper.