Anayat Durrani is an L.A.-based international freelance journalist with 10 years of professional experience. She is a versatile writer who has been widely published worldwide in magazines, newspapers, journals, and online. She holds a special Masters degree in Journalism and International Relations. Some of the publications she has written for include Al-Ahram Weekly, P.I. Magazine, Verdugo Monthly magazine, Lawcrossing.com.
That's the bit we're supposed to say. The truth is that Anayat is a very sharp, perceptive and incisive terrier of a journalist who will get to the bottom of any story and tell it like it is. Woe betide anyone who has anything to hide (and in this ethical, orderly, straight field of art who does, right?) because Anayat will not take "No comment" for an answer. She will get the truth and report it. And you, the reader, will benefit.
We are very proud to welcome Anayat to the stable of freelancers writing for FAR® and know that her journalistic skills will result in very valuable material for you, our readers.
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From his Pressed Duck to his Spaghetti Flag, Bill Czappa of Burbank, California, is as original as they get. With a flair for the unusual, his sculptures communicate, and carry, his famous signat... Read More
Between 1986 and 1994, British master art forger John Myatt painted 200 new works and passed them off as originals by nine modern masters. Myatt succeeded with the help of accomplice... Read More
California truck driver Teri Horton bought a painting for $5 in a San Bernardino thrift shop in the early 1990s. She showed her painting to an art teacher who thought it could be by American abst... Read More
There you are, lounging in the warm sunshine on the top deck of a luxury cruise liner, contemplating which activity to do next. There’s lots to do onboard: the casinos, a dip in the pool, shoppin... Read More
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Not all art galleries and corporate collections are alike. Some insure their works while others do not. For an artist considering exhibiting their precious works in a gallery or corporate collect... Read More
Art auctions have been a popular pastime on cruise ships for over a decade, auctioning off everything from Picassos and Dalis to the works of up-and-coming living artists. And while all who atten... Read More
The original aim of Object ID, when it was conceived in 1993, was to help in reporting and ultimately combating art theft worldwide. In 1997, when Object ID was first adopted, the international a... Read More
Beginning in 1993, the J. Paul Getty Trust began putting into motion what would become known as the Object ID project, an international standard for describing art, antiques and antiquities... Read More
Protecting your fine art collection includes tagging and registering each item with the Fine Art Registry™ and then taking steps to see that it is sufficiently covered by insurance. And, if your... Read More
Esam Pasha never considered himself a political painter. But when he painted over the first and largest mural portrait of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, covering it with... Read More
Bombs. Death. Destruction. Not the usual environment one might imagine an artist to create in. For Iraqi painter, Ghassan Ghaib, the realities that unfolded in Iraq following the U.S.-led... Read More
Iraqi painter and printmaker Hanaa Malallah has said Iraq’s long history in the fine arts is more valuable than the country’s oil. After viewing the works of Malallah and other Iraqi artists, man... Read More
When art and Iraq are mentioned in the same sentence it is more often than not in the context of Iraq’s ancient art and antiquities. But far beyond the art of ancient Mesopotamia, is a rich cultu... Read More
An objective comparison of existing art registries. Art registries are sprouting up all over the information superhighway. Careful review of some of the more wellknown art registries reveals that... Read More
The late Richard Diebenkorn was a California modernist painter, world famous for his large-scale abstract paintings. He is recognized for his striking use of color and for moving between figurati... Read More
You often hear the phrase "crime doesn’t pay." Well, in the business of art crime, art thieves take every effort to make an exception to the rule. As art crime remains a serious and growing crimi... Read More
What do three Rembrandts, a Vermeer, a Manet, five Degas and a Cezanne have in common? All are among the still missing works of art on the FBI’s list of top 10 art thefts worldwide... Read More
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