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.

This year’s autumn show looks at imaginary landscapes from four of the UAE’s most vibrant emerging artists.

In this interview with master calligrapher Samir Sayegh, he talks about liberating the form from meaning and searching for new aspects to make it fresh and contemporary.

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji is one of several artists awarded at the Cairo Biennale, making a comeback after 8 years.

Investigating architecture aesthetically as well as its social and political roles, Driss Ouadahi’s solo show is a display of the past 20 years of his practice.

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.

In a kind of gallery takeover lasting the duration of the summer, the trio of artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are using the gallery as a working studio working towards a final exhibition to be unveiled in September.

The victims of war spill far further than the front line. A moving photography exhibition in Dubai shows the results of a long-term journalistic project at an MSF hospital in Amman

One of the greatest artists from the Middle East, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian has passed away at the age of 96. As tributes begin to flow in, here is mine.

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji’s current exhibition is an extension of his practice lamenting the melancholy of life as a migrant and an homage to the life his forefathers led in the marshlands of Mesopotamia

Now that Art Week is over, here is just a little musing about the section of Art Dubai that offered an insight into the UAE.

Whether it is literal child’s play or artistic playfulness with technique and form, Tashkeel’s latest exhibition explores the subject of play from many different angles.

His practice has come to represent his personal journey, his country, the landscape as well as a kind of primal language that is accessible to everyone yet explainable by none. Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim is one of the UAE’s treasures - here is my interview from our studio visit.

An Indonesian art collective has been selected to curate Documenta 2022. It is the first time a collective has taken on the role and the first time that its curatorial leadership has come from Asia

Wissam Shawkat is a calligrapher who straddles the gap between the ancient and the contemporary. His work looks out on two fronts and his abstract and minimal pieces are the result of a life long relationship with the letters themselves.

For the launch of the newly renovated Tahrir Cultural Center in the American University of Cairo, Shiva Balaghi curated a show of two prominent Egyptian artists: Sherin Guirguis and Huda Lutfi.

As part of Abu Dhabi Innovation Week, Louvre Abu Dhabi is hosting a series of commissions and installations to mark the close of the Roads of Arabia exhibition.

The issue of script, legibility and art was the focus of the latest issue of Canvas magazine. Here is my take on it with a feature on the work of eL Seed.