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Myriam Ben Salah Appointed as Curator for Next Year’s Abraaj Prize

The curator for next year’s edition of the Abraaj Group Art Prize is Myriam Ben Salah. Born in Tunisia and based in Paris, Ben Salah has been coordinating special projects and public programs at Palais de Tokyo since 2009 with a special focus on performance art, video and publishing initiatives. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the international edition of Kaleidoscope Magazine.

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Artists Spotted at Art Dubai, Now Showing at Venice Biennale

In Between the Lines, an installation by Issay Rodriguez and Katherine Nuñez from Manila was composed of books made from fabric and sheafs of papers carefully crocheted alongside study desk paraphernalia such as paper clips that had also been labouriously stitched.

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The Baby Whisperer: Anne Geddes on International Fame and Regional Work

Geddes does not consider her overwhelmingly cute ­subjects to be props for elaborate costumes. She is an artist and the babies in her photographs are part of a narrative. "The babies are not dressed up like insects or animals, they are playing roles as those characters," she says. "For me, my work is all about storytelling and I am giving them a voice."

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Artists Run New York: The Seventies

Terry Smith, an art critic, outlined this definition by saying that although artists in the 1970s and 1980s did not want to define their work, it would eventually be labelled as conceptual – the goal was to keep the audience guessing, not offer answers to themselves or their viewers – and to keep themselves at a critical distance from the very institutions they were railing against.

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The Vulnerability Series: Abdalla Al Omari

Clearly trying to cause public debate, Omari will no doubt be successful in that, because this is not the kind of show that a viewer can pass over without comment but unfortunately, the artwork does not shed light on what it is like for these people, forced to leave their homeland with whatever they can carry and fall victim to traffickers, crooks and a whole corrupt system.

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Marwan Sahmarani: Drifting Island and The Bruce High Quality Foundation: The Second Coming

It is testament to the Lebanese artist’s mastery of the medium that, as his viewers take in each work as a whole, its stories reveal themselves easily. In his latest show, the tales are heartbreaking realities of our time.

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