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ISSUE No. 27 | OCTOBER 2016 HIGHLIGHTS
As the leaves start falling in London, it means only one thing - fair week is upon us.  We have no need to remind you that this week sees the opening of more than six fairs here (we focus on two below), together with the commencement of the major auctions of the season, including those of Bonham's and Sotheby's sales of Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern art later in the month.

We are also incredibly proud to announce that we are curating the exhibition of two wonderful JRFA Iranian artists Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar and Firouz FarmanFarmaian entitled Memory & Future / Future & Memory at Shirin Gallery NY, opening on 20th October 2016.  We warmly welcome you to the exhibition.

We hope you enjoy reading our newsletters and as always, welcome any comments.
  

Janet Rady, Gallery Director and Curator 
THIS MONTH'S TOP EVENTS
Hassan Khan
The Portrait is an Address
Beirut Art CenterSeptember 7 - November 6 2016Beirut, Lebanon. More here

Mohamed Bourouissa
Horseday
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 10 September 2016 - 1 January 2017, Amsterdam, Netherlands. More here
Halil Altındere
Space Refugee
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k, 15 September - 6 November 2016, Berlin, Germany.  More here
Natascha Sadr Haghighian
onco-mickey-catch

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k, 15 September - 4 November 2016, Berlin, Germany.  More here
When Arts Become Liberty: 
The Egyptian Surrealists (1938-1965)
Palace of Arts, 28 September - 28 November 2016, Cairo, Egypt. More here
Numina
Zarah Hussain
Barbican Foyers, 1 October - 9 November 2016, London, UK.  More here
RECONNECTING
KHALID AL HAMMADI, NOURA AL AMRI, SARA FORYAME, AHMED AL MANNAI, NASREEN JAMAL AL LAIL, CHEB MOHA, ALI SHARJI & MOUNA KALLA-SACRANIE
Kings House, 1 October - 30 October 2016, Hove, UK. More here 
Qalandiya International (Qi)
This Sea is Mine
Qalandiya International (Qi), 5 - 31 October 2016, Palestinian cities and villages. More here
Qatar Museums, 16 October, 2016 - 16 April 2017, Doha, Qatar. More here
Power and Protection:
Islamic Art and the Supernatural
Ashmolean Museum, 20 October 2016 - 15 January 2017, Oxford, UK. More here

Nour Festival of Arts
Various Venues, RBKC, 21 October - 6 November 2016, London, UK. More here
FEATURED FAIRS AND BEYOND
Who to Network With During Frieze Art Week 2016 (6 - 9 October). More here

Preview the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (6 - 9 October) London, UK. More here and Listen to the Podcast Here

AUCTION NEWS
INVITATION TO CONSIGN
ARTSCOOPS is accepting consignments for its Live auction,  interested in works from the MENA region and also contemporary art from Iran. 
Invitation to Consign: Artscoops Live Auction, Middle Eastern Contemporary Art, 9 March 2017, Beirut, Lebanon. More here
TIPS: ART ADVISORY & THE ART MARKET
Collectors drive the art world, but what drives art collectors? It's less about aesthetics than self-identification



Omid Tehrani. Courtesy of Assar Art Gallery.

WHAT'S INSPIRING THIS MONTH

Tasked with Creating a Catalogue Raisonné, These Art Historians Become Detectives

Twenty-five-year-old Robert Motherwell arrived in Manhattan in 1940, an erudite West Coast transplant who planned to study art history at Columbia University. Collector Peggy Guggenheim soon discovered the aspiring artist and, sensing promise, commanded him to make a collage for a survey at her New York gallery.   More here
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