{"id":67434,"date":"2026-02-23T18:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=67434"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:00:09","slug":"nihad-al-turk-creatures-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/nihad-al-turk-creatures-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Nihad Al Turk: Creatures of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Without formal art schooling, Nihad Al Turk has developed a distinctive visual language that blends colours, forms, and patterns, &#8220;preserving his na\u00efve sensibility while conveying his philosophical outlook and artistic vision&#8221;. His paintings typically feature anthropomorphic shapes and figures, a form of self-portraiture that reflects Al Turk\u2019s view on humanity and his connection with the world \u2013 &#8220;these haunting, creature-like beings represent the complexity of our human ecosystem&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To 9 May.<\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Nihad Al-Turk, Heroism (2014)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Without formal art schooling, Nihad Al Turk has developed a distinctive visual language that blends colours, forms, and patterns, &#8220;preserving his na\u00efve sensibility while conveying his philosophical outlook and artistic vision&#8221;. His paintings typically feature anthropomorphic shapes and figures, a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/nihad-al-turk-creatures-of-hope\/\" title=\"Nihad Al Turk: Creatures of Hope\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67437,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-67434","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67434"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=67434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}