Heitham Adjina’s first solo show combines the precision of architecture with the emotion of human experience.
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The Jameel Prize 5 exhibition opened in London last year and now its opening in Dubai feels like a home coming of sorts.
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As part of Jameel Arts Centre’s continued effort to integrate the community and engage all sectors in artistic discourse, the Youth Assembly staged a Youth Takeover and pop-up exhibition for 10 days.
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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
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Atassi Foundation has one of the largest collections in the world of modern and contemporary art from Syria. This exhibition explored female creativity.
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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.
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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.
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Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s practice is about accessing a part of the subconscious where the mind switches off and emotions take over. His work occupies that space, poetically described as the space between the eyelid and the eyeball in his latest exhibition in Dubai.
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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.
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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.
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A group show in Showcase Gallery explores tolerance in light of the UAE’s 2019 Year Of Tolerance. It includes a primary presentation of work by Jessica Watson-Thorp, who used her art as a bridge to explore Islam.
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Nima Nabavi is interested in the possibilities of infinite geometry.
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The one-month Sharjah Islamic Arts Festival is back for a bigger and better edition this year. Alongside several top-class art presentations, there are also 161 workshops will be held in subjects such as calligraphy, Islamic ornamentation and sand-writing as well as lectures and artist tours.
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Huda Lutfi’s third solo show at The Third Line in Dubai was a quiet moment in her sometimes outspoken practice, but sometimes, the loudest messages come through in silence.
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This exhibition of book design takes viewers on a journey through art, architecture, cosmology and philosophy, as well as words.
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Letters is an exhibition that takes its cue from Omar Saif Ghobash’s novel Letters To A Young Muslim. It cleverly captures through a range of artists from UAE and Saudi, the predicament of today’s young Muslim.
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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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