Doha’s much anticipated, much delayed new airport, Hamad International (HIA), has finally welcomed its first passengers. At close to noon today, Fly Dubai flight FZ015 from Dubai touched down at the terminal 45 minutes behind schedule, signaling the beginning of passenger operations at the airport. About half an hour earlier, a ceremonial Qatar Airways flight carrying VIPs […]
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Damien Hirst: Relics
12 August 2013
ALRIWAQ, Qatar Museums Authority, Doha, Qatar – 10 October, 2013 – 22 January, 2014 The largest retrospective survey of Damien Hirst’s work ever to be assembled is on display at Qatar Museums Authority, Doha (10 October 2013 – 22 January 2014). Spanning over 27 years of Hirst’s iconic career, ‘Relics’ is the artist’s first solo show in the […]
Read MoreQMA: Murakami exhibition free until close on June 24
11 June 2012
Takashi Murakami’s latest art installation, Ego, is now free to the public until its last day on June 24, Qatar Museums Authority has said. The exhibit, which is at Al Riwaq Doha (next to the Museum of Islamic Art) is Murakami’s […]
Read MoreMurakami EGO at Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall Doha, Qatar.
29 February 2012
Takashi Murakami’s First Exhibition in the Middle East Offers Glimpse into the Artist’s Universe Murakami-Ego features 16 new works, including a 100-meter work created in response to recent natural disasters in Japan. On view Until June 24, 2012 at Al Riwaq Exhibition Hall, Doha, Qatar Doha, February 2012: For his first exhibition in the Middle […]
Read MoreTakashi Murakami’s ‘Ego’ welcomes art-lovers to Doha exhibition
13 February 2012
Nothing says Ego quite like a six-metre-high inflatable structure of one’s self. Sitting crossed-legged in the entrance of Al Riwaq, Doha’s warehouse-style art space, the giant Takashi Murakami looks down on visitors to the artist’s first Middle East exhibition. Dressed in a white T-shirt and shorts and sporting those famous round, silver framed glasses, the […]
Read MoreTakashi Murakami – first solo exhibition in the Middle East
9 October 2011
Qatar Museums Authority will host a major exhibition by Japanese artist Takashi Murakami – his first solo exhibition in the Middle East – early next year. The exhibit, Murakami – Ego, will be on from February 9 – June 24 at the Museum of Islamic Art. QMA says the show will “immerse visitors in a fantasy world … capturing the […]
Read MoreAermec takes centre stage at Centre Court
2 July 2011
When the roof of the new Centre Court at Wimbledon is closed to enable all-weather play, sophisticated air-conditioning systems using Aermec chillers will be called into play to provide the optimum environment for the grass and comfort for spectators. Nine Aermec RV 3603E low-noise chillers with screw compressors using R407C will provide chilled water to […]
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