What's a Legation? Why is it in Tangier? Really, it's the only US National Historic Landmark overseas? These are but a few of the recurring questions we get at TALIM, from Americans, Moroccans, and visitors from around the world. So we have finally gotten around to installing "backlit transparencies" in a previously unused staircase that … Read more Our New Two-Century Timeline
Literary festival “Correspondances de Tanger” features Bernard Comment’s evocation of American beat writer Jack Kerouac.
James Bond aficionados, on his 50th anniversary, will find the toy soldiers from “The Living Daylights” at the Tangier American Legation museum.
With his distinctive style which works particularly well with architecture and landscapes, Assilah-based artist Hervé Metterie makes an impression on any wall. When you multiply that by more than 60 works unveiled today at the Legation, you have added instant dash of color to what can seem a monochrome institution. Hervé, who contributed one of … Read more Artist Hervé Creates an Impression
When you have a two-century old building, you better devote resources to keeping it from falling down.
James McBey’s portrait of Zohra has been called “The Moroccan Mona Lisa.”
Tangier, once the “White City” on the Strait of Gibraltar, succumbs to waterproof red paint.
On this Fourth of July, when across the United States, and in those places overseas where Americans meet, the red, white and blue decorates many a barbecue and picnic, we display this gift of Moroccans to Americans, dating back to the late 1950s. American flags haven't flown over the Legation in, what, more than 50 … Read more Consul, Wrapped In Flag: Odd Legation Tales
Well, it wasn't really an exhibit, but rather a film of an artist and her exhibit. The artist is Carla Querejeta Roca, a Spanish Tangeroise (or perhaps Tangerina) whose family has strong roots in this city on the Strait of Gibraltar. The filmmaker is Jean-Claude Sussfeld, who has begun to explore Tangier subjects. The exhibit … Read more Instant Art Exhibit: Carla Querejeta Roca
