I am very happy to announce the launch of the latest BlouinArtinfo website, BlouinArtinfo Middle East. Like our other sites, this one draws together top-notch reporting and critical opinion on the visual and performing arts, architecture and design, fashion, travel, and lifestyle subjects from around the world, presenting it in a thoughtful mix aimed particularly at readers in its region. And also like those sites, it will offer its readers—and readers of all our sites—great, of-the-moment storytelling from the region, like this video about Richard Serra’s new project in the desert outside Doha.
For those of us in the West, of course, the Middle East is not just a fascinating part of the world but one we need to understand better, and that we hope will understand us better, too. In my view, there is no better way for divergent worlds to get to know one another than through information about each other’s cultures—which is BlouinArtinfo’s stock-in-trade.
Our 24 sites across 20 countries and regions have allowed us to become part of an important global conversation, based on culture, about who we human beings have been, are now, and can be in the future. It may seem trite to say so, but we are a better world together than apart, and it’s a privilege for BlouinArtinfo to play a role, however small, in bridging the gaps between us.
—Louise Blouin, Chairman, Louise Blouin Media
