Homayoun Sakhi is a master performer on Afghan rubab as well as a composer who brings together Eastern and Western musical languages and instruments. Born in Kabul into one of Afghanistan’s leading ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The SouthCoast Afghan Welcome Network and the New Bedford Free Public Library announced the opening of a unique exhibit, Dil ba ...
To Abdul Wasi Rahraw Omarzad, fleeing Afghanistan and starting a new life in Italy comes with immense responsibility. The artist and curator wants to continue with his work to promote and develop ...
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) in Qatar has inaugurated an exhibition titled “Empire of Light: Visions and ...
BRATTLEBORO — Of the more than 100 Afghan refugees who landed in Brattleboro, five of them were members of the Art Lords, a 50-person collective of artists founded in 2014 that was responsible for ...
A group of Afghan women are defying convention by studying and producing expressive contemporary art. Their work offers an abstract commentary on the restrictions that often govern women’s lives. A ...
Shamsia Hassani, a painter who teaches at Kabul University, is also a graffiti artist who ventures into the streets of Afghanistan to create murals. Using the walls of abandoned buildings damaged from ...
Help us pay for in-depth stories like this one by becoming a Seven Days Super Reader. Negina Azimi painted her first mural as a member of ArtLords of Afghanistan in March 2017. It was Nowruz, the ...
When a nation’s artists are in shackles, its people live in chains. When art is liberated, its people are set free. Since the world abandoned Afghanistan to the ...
Afghan girl members of a Jiu-Jitsu club jump during a practice session on a hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan.AP/Tamana Sarwary Jiu Jitsu club members look at a wall with posters at their club ahead of a ...
110 artworks from Afghanistan are now on view in Houston. Some are calling it the art show of the year. It's the largest exhibition of art from Afghanistan to be shown in the West in 35 years. These ...