Draft:Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani
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Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani is the Founding Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Art in New York City. He started the Institute in 2015 shortly after moving to New York.[1] Al-Thani is credited with helping reshape the cultural landscape in New York City by providing a platform for contemporary art from the Arab and Islamic Worlds. Under his directorship and curatorial vision, Al-Thani developed cutting edge, well researched first solo institutional US exhibitions of historical artists from the Arab and Islamic Worlds, highly reviewed by well respected critics such as Pulitzer Prize winner New York Times Chief Critic Holland Cotter, Martha Schwendener, Kaelen Wilson-Goldie. In 2020, Al-Thani curated Huguette Caland largest retrospective to date at Mathaf, Qatar Museums.
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[edit]‘There’s Really No Platform in New York’: The Institute of Arab and Islamic Art’s Director, Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani, on Its Ambitious Plans Artnet News, May 15, 2017
New York art museum seeks to counter Islamophobia - Al Jazeera English, 27 Jun 2017
Mohammed Rashid Al-Thani on His Mission to Bring Arab and Islamic Art to NYC - Vogue Arabia, September 18, 2023
Exchange Program: The New Institute of Arab and Islamic Art - Art in America, May 2017
Exhibition 1, Brooklyn Rail, Jun 2017