A major art exhibition has opened in the Afghan capital Kabul. Given its location in a war-torn country known better for anarchy than aesthetics, this is remarkable. But even if one were to ignore ...

The history of Afghanistan is told in the blood of its native groups and the many empires — from Greek to Mongol, from British to Soviet — that have sought to rule them since the Bronze Age. It’s a ...

Foreword -- Preface -- Editors' note -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Introductory Chapters -- Stepping inside: culture through the windows of art and literature / Arley Loewen -- Guided tour of ...

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 ...

KABUL, Nov 19 (Reuters) - In a small art gallery in the Afghan capital, Marzia Panahi watches as one of the young artists she has just employed applies paint to a framed felt canvas propped up against ...

From Kyiv to Gaza to Baghdad, conflicts around the globe have silenced artists and left both works of art and cultural heritage sites in ruin. Driven by the transformative power of art and a desire to ...

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 Alexandria gallery director Marga Fripp was choosing a signature work for her new show of female artists, she settled quickly on "Waiting," a haunting, gray-washed watercolor of an Afghan woman ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – Threads that won’t break, links in a chain that stretch the limits of war and repression—the work in this show at the 1515 Art Gallery, which includes exquisite embroidery, ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A group of women in burqas rises from the sea to symbolize cleanliness, while further down a factory wall a bus with no wheels and crammed with passengers is a stark comment on ...

Click here to read the story in Ukrainian or Dari (Afghan Persian). (MIRROR INDY) — Every day at 12:30 p.m. for the past month, Iryna Bondar, a Ukrainian multimedia artist, asks others in the library ...