Afghan activist Omaid Sharifi's art collective spent seven years transforming stretches of Kabul's labyrinthine concrete blast walls with colourful murals - then the Taliban marched in.
When a nation’s artists are in shackles, its people live in chains. When art is liberated, its people are set free. Since the world abandoned Afghanistan to the ...
"As an Afghan woman, from such an early age ... In other ways, however, Suzani Stories has been intentionally focused on art and community, rather than on replicating the structures and demands ...
“Afghan Women’s Narratives through Art: Exploring Themes of Identity & Home” is on display at the Wilson Branch of the New ...
Abd returned this year with an idea: to employ the nearly disappeared Afghan art form to document how life has changed in peacetime, for better and worse, two years after U.S. troops left and the ...
The Taliban are famous for destroying priceless artifacts. With Kabul falling to the Taliban, the fate of the National Museum’s world-class collection now hangs in the balance.