In Light of COVID-19: What Looks Different Now?
More virtual fodder to feed our cultural brains. Here is a date for your diary - April 22 for an NYUAD Art Gallery roundtable discussion.
Isolation life: 5 online art shows worth checking out
Don’t let isolation get you down. Here is a round up of five digital art displays, showcasing art from across the region to brighten up your day and provide some much needed cultural impetus.
NYUAD Gallery announces autumn exhibition
This year’s autumn show looks at imaginary landscapes from four of the UAE’s most vibrant emerging artists.
Zimoun: Silence that you hear
Swiss artist Zimoun uses humble materials to create audio-visual works that sound like a symphony but that should be listened to in the same way as you might experience silence. A truly wonderful show.
Look again: Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing is the third iteration of an exhibition that takes its roots in the seminal 1970s text by John Berger. It asks audiences to question the methods of viewing the works and includes leading Emirati artists for the Abu Dhabi edition.
Alibadah to open at NYU Abu Dhabi Project Space
Alibadah is an extension of an ongoing dialogue between artists Hashel Al Lamki and Mohammed Al Mazrouei on concepts of the existence and evolution of humans as a species.
Ways of Seeing to open in Abu Dhabi in September
Ways of Seeing, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath’s touring exhibition will open in NYU Abu Dhabi after the summer. It has been reworked to include new artists from the UAE and others.
Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti: Permanent Temporariness
For the past seven decades, the Palestinian condition of displacement and exile has been ongoing, altering how refugees feel about the nature of their built environment. Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti refer to this state of a airs as “permanent temporariness,” which is also the title of their most recent exhibition at NYU Abu Dhabi.