This exhibition of book design takes viewers on a journey through art, architecture, cosmology and philosophy, as well as words.
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Apply now for this three month art writing residency at the Jameel Arts Centre. A great opportunity for anyone looking to extend their scholarly research and practice.
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Columbian artist Fernando Botero is well known for his art using exaggerated volume and rounded forms. He is currently holding his first retrospective in the Middle East and it focuses solely on his still life works.
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The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award, in collaboration with the United Nations is showing an exhibition highlighting the plight of forced international migration over the past 70 years.
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Ahead of the anticipated opening of the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai next month, I interviewed Antonia Carver for Art Dubai.
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An exploration and extension of painting as a medium with strong subject matter relating to the social and economic structure of the UAE makes Mohammed Kazem’s most recent show an excellent presentation both conceptually and formally.
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The annual community exhibition at Gulf Photo Plus explores notions of home and belonging with images that range from tender moments and landscapes to portraits and personal objects.
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Three curators from three continents will offer a broad but focused experience for galleries, artists and visitors at Art Dubai 2019
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More than 50 paintings from Abdulqader Al Rais’ long career will be shown in a major retrospective in Paris this month. It is part of the UAE’s soft power initiative, to spread awareness about the country through art and culture.
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The ancient aesthetic of the Far East influenced many 19th century European artists. Learn more about the connections between Japan and France in the new exhibition set to open at Louvre Abu Dhabi.
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It is 95 years since Kahlil Gibran’s seminal text The Prophet was published. This London exhibition featuring 38 Middle Eastern artists celebrates his timeless impact.
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Beirut Art Fair, now in its ninth edition has highlights that include a KAWS exhibition of over 40 figurines, a retrospective of Paul Guiragossian and a look back at a century of Lebanese photography
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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.
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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.
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Nicky Nodjoumi’s use of satire, found imagery and political commentary makes Fractures a hard hitting show that also pays homage to his first and foremost priority: painting.
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Even 25 years after his death, Paul Guiragossian remains one of the region’s most prominent and most loved modernists. The most recent exhibition of his work in the UAE gathered several of his most poignant works. Here, I write about that and his enduring influence.
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Fear of digitisation of our lives is real as we enter into the AI age. Does the answer lie in visual art? Here are some thoughts on that topic.
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Abbas Akhavan talks site specificity, gardens and security in this podcast interview that I did for Alserkal Avenue in light of his latest exhibition at The Third Line
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