The wait is over. Salvator Mundi will be revealed to the world on September 18, 2018 at Louvre Abu Dhabi

A land artist and one of the UAE’s finest talents, Mohammed Ahmed Ibrahim’s retrospective exhibition is still running at Sharjah Art Foundation. Read about my studio visit earlier this year.

The Diving Bell & The Butterfly explores artistic practices that places themselves within some kind of restriction but also celebrate creative freedom. Curated by me, Anna Seaman, the show was contains the work of 11 artists who either live and work in the region or who have roots in the Middle East.

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.

Budding photographers, apply now for Vantage Point 6 - under the theme of performance.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The ever-popular Rain Room opened its first permanent edition in Sharjah.

Alserkal’s Avenue multidisciplinary event venue Concrete will host Adapt To Survive, a group exhibition currently on show at the Hayward Gallery in London.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

Sharjah Art Foundation announces seven winners of production grant to fund new work.