A Hundred Assafs / Arab Idol / Mahboub El-Arab

We have a private party at the Mackintosh Church this evening, and on the way into Glasgow I managed to pop into the CCA and take in the Khaled Hourani exhibition, which is part of the Glasgow International biennial festival of contemporary art.

The first retrospective of Palestinian artist Khaled Hourani brings together existing and new paintings, installations and conceptual work from throughout his career.

Hourani’s work has had a vital influence in the growth of contemporary art in Palestine and his artistic practice often responds to the surrealism and comic absurdity of current events. As founder and director of the International Academy of Art Palestine, he initiated the Picasso in Palestine project in 2011, which brought an original masterpiece to the West Bank for the first time in history. He won the Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change in 2013.