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Live Ideas | Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi of The Barjeel Art Foundation: A Platform for Politically Engaged Art from the Arab World

As part of New York Life Art’s 2016 Live Ideas Festival, MENA/Future – Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, a political commentator for MSNBC, CNN and Bloomberg TV and one of today’s most prolific contemporary art collectors and cultural voices, talks about the social and political role of contemporary art in the Middle East. As founder of the Sharjah-based Barjeel Art Foundation, Al-Qassemi supports some of the Arab world’s most vital new voices through exhibitions locally and internationally, and has risen to become one of the most influential collectors of politically engaged art. In addition to his role as patron, he emerged among the foremost voices on social media during the Arab Spring, recognized by TIME Magazine for harnessing its tools to translate events in real time for a worldwide audience.











When: Thu., May. 26, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: New York Live Arts
219 W. 19th St.
212-691-6500
Price: $15
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As part of New York Life Art’s 2016 Live Ideas Festival, MENA/Future – Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region, Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, a political commentator for MSNBC, CNN and Bloomberg TV and one of today’s most prolific contemporary art collectors and cultural voices, talks about the social and political role of contemporary art in the Middle East. As founder of the Sharjah-based Barjeel Art Foundation, Al-Qassemi supports some of the Arab world’s most vital new voices through exhibitions locally and internationally, and has risen to become one of the most influential collectors of politically engaged art. In addition to his role as patron, he emerged among the foremost voices on social media during the Arab Spring, recognized by TIME Magazine for harnessing its tools to translate events in real time for a worldwide audience.

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