The longest day of the year is a perfect time for a walk through Frijthout in my hometown of Hove. Especially when trumpet music accompanied the opening of the temporary open-air exhibition ‘Light gives comfort (Licht en Troost).’ About twenty works of art are spread over the landscape park and garden of the castle of … Continue reading
Till the 16th of Februar, ‘The Square of Light,’ the 21st annual Photography Exhibition 2014 of Oman, is on display in the Gallery of the Dhofar Photographic Society in Salalah. Looking to the history of the photography, the square form of a photo is not newborn. But in an era of digital photography and cameras that … Continue reading
In the yearly exhibition of the members of the Omani Society for Fine Art in Salalah, in Dhofar, in the south of Oman, art speaks a language of its own. For seven days long, twenty five members express themselves in forty five works. The paintings I saw reveal the inner self of the artists who made … Continue reading
Doing business is a matter of meeting, discovering and decision making. For the first time in Oman, in Salalah, in the south of the Sultanate, an ‘International Industry Exhibition’ opened his doors. About one hundred participants attend for five days the exhibition, organised by the Oman Chamber of Commerce and Industry (OCCI) branch in Dhofar … Continue reading
In Salalah, in Dhofar more cages are appearing on roofs to house pigeons. And then I am not talking about the ‘Bruce’s Green Pigeon,’ – the Ethiopian mystery bird – that specializes on consuming the fruits of just one species of fig tree and a fairly common breeding summer visitor to foothills and parks in Dhofar. … Continue reading
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