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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Houssam Ballan’s exhibition is his first in Dubai. His paintings use flat colour planes and movement to convey both a sense of emotion as well as the complexities of human perception.
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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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The ever-popular Rain Room opened its first permanent edition in Sharjah.
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Alserkal’s Avenue multidisciplinary event venue Concrete will host Adapt To Survive, a group exhibition currently on show at the Hayward Gallery in London.
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Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim is one of the UAE's great artistic geniuses. I had the pleasure of visiting his studio recently and I wrote up this personal piece about it.
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Whilst the Barjeel Art Foundation's schedule of hosting regular international and domestic exhibitions will be coming to a close, the work will be on permanent display in the Sharjah Art Museum.
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Artscoops is an independent art platform based in Beirut and for their fourth live auction, they have sourced an impressive array of pieces from leading modern and contemporary artists.
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Applications for the Sotheby's Prize are now open. Last year's prize will fund a future exhibition of key pieces of Middle Eastern art at the MCA Chicago.
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This exhibition brings together some of the biggest names in Western art with Middle Eastern practitioners to display 80 pieces of jewellery as a celebration of wearable art.
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Sharjah Art Foundation announces seven winners of production grant to fund new work.
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Art Dubai 2018 is the biggest and arguably the best yet. With galleries from all over the world and emerging talent showcased alongside international names, here are some of the highlights.
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Is Dubai a future city? Which role will cultural soft power play in achieving the strategic plan ‘Dubai 2021’? For Julius Baer, I investigated these questions with a spotlight on Dubai Opera and Art Dubai.
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Jene Highstein was one of the pioneers of the post-minimalist movement and Dubai's Jean-Paul Najar Foundation is exhibiting some seminal works from his oeuvre, which investigated space and form.
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Selections publishing house have commissioned a series of small 20x20cm artworks from artists across the Middle East. It is now being exhibited in a non-profit exhibition in Dubai and offers a current insight into the art scene from across the region.
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Majd Kurdieh is an emerging Syrian artist who uses simplicity and a poetic combination of words and metaphor to offer a plaintive cry to humanity to stop the suffering in his homeland.
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