{"id":676,"date":"2006-07-11T17:44:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T16:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=676"},"modified":"2008-04-09T22:47:55","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T21:47:55","slug":"word-into-art-artists-of-the-modern-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/11\/word-into-art-artists-of-the-modern-middle-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk\/middleeastnow\/word-into-art\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/word.jpg\" alt=\"word.jpg\" id=\"image675\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Love by Hassan Massoudy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk\/middleeastnow\/word-into-art\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East<\/a><br \/>\nThe British Museum<br \/>\n18 May\u20133 September 2006<br \/>\nRoom 35<br \/>\nAdmission free<\/p>\n<p>Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East is an exhibition based largely on the collections of the British Museum complemented by a number of loans. It demonstrates the imaginative ways in which artists across the Middle East and North Africa are using the power of the written word in their art today.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition includes wonderful examples of calligraphy transforming writing into art, books of poetry, and works which reflect current issues facing the modern Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Opening times<br \/>\nDaily 10.00\u201317.30<br \/>\nOpen late Thursday &amp; Friday until 20.30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love by Hassan Massoudy. Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East The British Museum 18 May\u20133 September 2006 Room 35 Admission free Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East is an exhibition based largely on the collections of the British Museum complemented by a number of loans. It demonstrates the imaginative &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2006\/07\/11\/word-into-art-artists-of-the-modern-middle-east\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[266],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-typography","tag-calligraphy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-aU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}