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Galerie Noir Sur Blanc
Get in on the ground floor of the Moroccan contemporary art boom at this 1st-floor showcase of major Moroccan talent. A recent show featured elemental calligraphic paintings by Marrakshi Larbi Cherkaoui, whose words break free of the page and seem to turn backflips on canvas. Friendly, well-informed staff provide useful insights about recurring motifs and fresh ideas in Moroccan art.
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Galerie Photo 127
Like any worthwhile Chelsea gallery, this one is up a dim, once-grand staircase and in an industrial-chic chamber with the obligatory exposed brick-and-concrete wall. Shows vary from straightforward travel photography to more interpretive works, mostly by Mediterranean artists.
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Galerie Ré
A slick, two-story showplace featuring emerging Moroccan artists and Mediterranean artists with connections to Morocco. Standouts include the rough-edged minimalist paintings of M'barek Bouhchichi and molten sculptures by Marrakshi Touria Othman. The gallery doubles as a publisher, issuing gorgeous illustrated editions of Arabic poetry in French.
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Jardin Majorelle & Museum of Islamic Art
Owned by the Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint-Laurent Foundation, this exotic sub-tropical garden provides a haven away from the hectic pace outside. The garden was designed by the French painter Jacques Majorelle, who lived here from 1922 to 1962. In among the cooling water features, the cacti, majestic palm trees and cascades of bougainvillaea, is a small museum.
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Maison Tiskiwin
Travel to Timbuktu and back again, via the private art collection of Dutch anthropologist Bert Flint. Each room represents a region of Morocco with indigenous crafts, from well-travelled Tuareg leather camel saddles to fine Middle Atlas carpets - the gold standard by which to judge the ones in the souqs. See if you can spot such recurring motifs as the khamsa (hand of Fatima) and the Southern cross, the constellation that guided desert travellers.
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Matisse Art Gallery
Housed in this marble-fronted gallery are contemporary Moroccan artworks such as Farid Belkahia's organically shaped henna paintings evoke Berber blessings and ancient landscape formations, and you can't miss works by Marrakesh's most famous artist, Mahi Binebine. His haloed figures in natural local pigments and beeswax are tinged with melancholy, like the imprint of a loved one who's just left the room.
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