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Sheikha Al Mayassa’s Case for Culture in Uncertain Times

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Sheikha Al Mayassa’s Case for Culture in Uncertain Times

As Doha opens its most ambitious exhibition season yet, the Qatar Museums chairperson is staying the course, arguing that art and fashion can reach places politics can't.

DOHA — Qatar’s cultural season is in full swing. On Oct. 27, “Erdem: About Time, About Her,” the first major exhibition dedicated to the designer’s 20-year-old house, opened alongside “Around the World in Jewellery,” presented with L’École, School of Jewelry Arts and supported by Van Cleef & Arpels. Design Doha, Rubaiya Qatar and Fashion Trust Arabia are still to come this month.

For Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, chairperson of Qatar Museums, the packed calendar is the message. “At times like these, fear is not an option. In fact, it never is,” she said last week, while announcing the second edition of Art Basel Qatar.

“We found ourselves embroiled in a regional war we did not create, and one we refused to be dragged into,” she told an audience of collectors, gallerists and press. “Qatar believes in dialogue, in peace, in coexistence.”

The war broke out shortly after the inaugural Art Basel Qatar closed in February, closing the Strait of Hormuz and throwing the region’s economies into turmoil. Her brother, the Amir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and his government have been playing a crucial role in negotiating an end to the fighting.

Eight months on, Qatar Museums is staging what she calls its most ambitious season yet, and Art Basel Qatar returns Jan. 28 to 30 with 82 galleries from 37 countries and territories.


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