Beauty of the Treasured Green Gems: An Exhibition of Emeralds Opens L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelery Art's New Permanent Campus in Dubai

Upon entering Garden of Emeralds – the inaugural exhibition to mark the opening of L’ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Art’s newest permanent space in Dubai – visitors encounter a magnificent treasure called the Goliath Mineral. It is a huge specimen weighing 33 kilograms that was extracted from a mine in Zambia in 2010. .e uncut mineral stone is filled with more than 100 raw emeralds protruding from its natural base that convey the journey of the treasured gems, straight from the heart of the planet.

FeaturesAnna SeamanOctober 29, 2024L’ÉCOLE, design, Dubai

Survival Of The Fittest

Imagine extracting Charles Darwin (or perhaps just his theory of evolution) from Victorian England and implanting him two centuries into the future to a time when technological and human intelligence are inseparable. In our age of AI, advanced medical science, and engineering, how would Darwin chart the survival of the fittest? Would man-made inventions be considered the building blocks of life? And who would the most likely survivors be?

Editor's PicksAnna SeamanOctober 26, 2024Zeinab Alhashemi, conceptual art, Dubai

All-Seeing Eye: Jon Burgerman’s Blobs

For MORROW collective’s exhibition All-Seeing Eye, the following Q&A is part of a series of short artist interviews. The showcase was on September 28, 2023 at the exhibition’s partner space Seeing Things on Alserkal Avenue, paired with a drop on Foundation.

Medium, ProfilesAnna SeamanApril 9, 2024Art, NFT, DubaiComment

All Seeing Eye: The legs have eyes with Vestica

Mariah (Veštica) is a contemporary artist from Belgrade, Serbia. Her style is often characterized as a digital and traditional avant-garde experiment with indication of surreal, magic realism and post-expressionistic elements. Using the diverse approaches within a formally divergent field of media, from physical painting to processing art, she is confronting new and traditional techniques while questioning the position of art in technological society.

MediumAnna SeamanApril 5, 2024Dubai, Art, NFTsComment

Enter the world of performing art

Ever wanted to try your hand at performing arts? The Courtyard Playhouse has new online improv courses available.

NewsAnna SeamanApril 11, 2020Courtyard Playhouse, Dubai, Acting

The Alumni Return: A group exhibition

The Alumni Return is a group exhibition of eight artists and designers who have been associated with Tashkeel studio hub and have gone on to study for master’s degrees. This is a presentation of their final works for their studies.

Reviews, Editor's PicksAnna SeamanOctober 1, 2019Tashkeel, Khalid Mezaina, Salama Nasib, Lisa Ball-Lechgar, Dubai

Sketch-off competition to design next-gen car

A sketch battle competition open to automobile and product designers, graphic designers and artists based in the UAE will launch with a cash prize.

News, Editor's PicksAnna SeamanSeptember 17, 2019Dubai, sketch battle, drawing, cars

The Arab Culturalist

With decades of experience working in the field of cross-cultural engagement, Nasif Kayed, who is also known as The Arab Culturalist is an expert at answering tricky questions and straddling both Eastern and Western ideas.

Amir Khojestah: The Gloomiest Sunset in the World.

Amir Khojestah’s The Gloomiest Sunset in the World is a satirical look at the state of the world today with some expert painterly techniques, which call into question the notion of the portrait.

Reviews, Editor's PicksAnna SeamanJune 8, 2019Amir Khojestah, Carbon 12, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Heitham Adjina: The Architecture of Being

Heitham Adjina’s first solo show combines the precision of architecture with the emotion of human experience.

Reviews, Most PopularAnna SeamanMay 12, 2019Heitham Adjina, Showcase Gallery, Iraq, Dubai

Jameel Prize 5

The Jameel Prize 5 exhibition opened in London last year and now its opening in Dubai feels like a home coming of sorts.

Salsali Private Museum announces final Dubai exhibition

Salsali Private Museum, which has been open in Alserkal Avenue since 2011, will close its doors at the end of May and relocate to Berlin. The final exhibition will be from Philip Mueller.

Transcendantal Lines

Nima Nabavi is interested in the possibilities of infinite geometry.

Changing the art landscape in the UAE

It was a game changer when it opened in November, here are some of my thoughts about the Jameel Arts Centre and if you haven’t been yet, I encourage you all to go.

Antonia Carver on the Jameel Arts Centre

Ahead of the anticipated opening of the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai next month, I interviewed Antonia Carver for Art Dubai.

Features, Editor's PicksAnna SeamanOctober 18, 2018Antonia Carver, Art Jameel, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, Jeddah

Painting his own narrative: Abdulqader Al Rais

Abdulqader Al Rais is one of the first Emirati’s to pursue art as a professional career and his versatile talent has served him well over his five decade career. A large international retrospective of his work is now on show in Paris.

Features, Most PopularAnna SeamanOctober 2, 2018Abdulqader Al Rais, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Dubai

Lantian Xie: Full Special

Through his exhibition titled Full Special, Lantian Xie offers a humourous and ironic look at life in the UAE and all its bizarre idiosyncrasies.

Reviews, Most PopularAnna SeamanSeptember 20, 2018Grey Noise, Alserkal Avenue, Lantian Xie, DubaiComment

Shakespeare, Shelley and Cyberspace

With literary references in this show abound, this exhibition tantalises the senses and also throws an interesting perspective on life and love in the 21st century.

Reviews, Editor's PicksAnna SeamanJune 28, 2018Monika Grabuschnigg, Carbon 12, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai