Art History — by Exhibo

arts, visual, history, society, culture · EN

The story of art, country by country — told the way it's rarely told anywhere else: in full, one nation at a time.Most people who love art can name a handful of Western movements without thinking twice. Ask the same person about the pioneers of Emirati conceptual art, the women who staged Saudi Arabia's first public exhibition in 1968, or the founder of modern Qatari painting, and the trail usually goes cold. Not because those histories are thin — they're not — but because nobody has sat down and told them properly, episode by episode, country by country.That's what this podcast does.Each season is devoted to a single nation's art history, moving from its earliest visual traditions through the generation of pioneers who first broke with convention, the collectives and ateliers they built, the institutions that followed, and the contemporary scene as it stands today. Season One covers the Gulf in full — the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait — tracing figures like Has