04-28-2009, 03:40 AM
<b> Emirates art lovers welcome Orientalism</b>
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
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Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->So at a time when Orientalist art is enjoying a critical reappraisal and breaking auction records, it seems that critical and philosophical questions about the cultural appropriateness is mainly confined to the Western mind. The Emaratis of Sharjah scarcely even noticed.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->