Expressionist architecture

The Louvre Abu Dhabi's license has been extended by 10 years to 2047, the French presidency said on Dec. 3 during a visit by Emmanuel Macron to the United Arab Emirates.

In the exhibition, supported by Goethe-Institut Istanbul, starting from their reflection on modernism and the Bauhaus culture, the artists and architects Aslı Serbest and Mona Mahall show a series of works and speculative research on feminist spatial utopias. 

I recently attended a lecture at the Hellenic Institute of Architecture by Alexandros K. Samaras, an architect and longtime chairman of the Hellenic-American Educational Foundation's Board of Directors, on Walter Gropius and his mid-1950s design for the US Embassy in Athens.

Guided by the method of the expressionism, the academic artist Trajce Catmov at the exhibition "Creativity and Misery", presents before the audience canvasses on which he painted the experiences of the essence of the human emotional aspect.

He completely abstracts himself from the visual realm of the reality, and abandons every usual thing which the normal eye tends not to notice.

The Louvre Abu Dhabi will finally open its doors to the public in November, bringing to the Gulf Mesopotamian artifacts and post-impressionist masterpieces in the first Louvre-branded museum outside of Paris.

Housing 600 works of art, including 300 loaned by 13 French museums for the inaugural year, the Louvre Abu Dhabi is described as the "first universal museum" in the Arab world.