Radial Histories: Art and Exchange in Sharjah, 1960s-1980s

Radial Histories: Art and Exchange in Sharjah, 1960s-1980s

Sharjah Art Foundation

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7
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2026
First episode

About Radial Histories: Art and Exchange in Sharjah, 1960s-1980s

How did a fine arts scene first emerge in Sharjah?  What connected artists in the UAE to cultural movements in the Gulf, the wider Arab world and beyond?  And how can we rethink about modernism in the region before the rise of today’s global contemporary art scene, of which the UAE is a major hub?   To find out, tune in to Radial Histories, a six-part audio miniseries  that brings to light untold stories about visual art in Sharjah and the wider UAE from the 1960s to the early 1990s, just before the inception of the Sharjah Biennial in 1993.  Taking Sharjah as its point of departure, the series features interviews with leading artists, curators, critics and institution-builders, as well as archival sound and historical analysis.  Following movements inward and outward, the six chapters map the flow of people and ideas across expanding geographies and trace the shifts in political currents from the local to the international. Radial Histories  offers a new way of listening to the past—one that deepens our understanding of the present.

Publisher
Sharjah Art Foundation
Category
arts
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
21 May 2026
Latest episode
22 May 2026

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7 episodes in the feed.

  1. 22 May 2026

    CHAPTER 06: Afterword

  2. 22 May 2026

    CHAPTER 05: The 1980s—The Years Before the Biennial

  3. 22 May 2026

    CHAPTER 04: 1980s—Building an Art Community in Sharjah

  4. 22 May 2026

    CHAPTER 03: The 1970s—Art Education and Cultural Exchange

  5. 22 May 2026

    CHAPTER 02: The 1960s—Photography, Pedagogy and Pan-Arabism

  6. 22 May 2026

    CHAPTER 01: Overview

  7. 21 May 2026

    What is Radial Histories?

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