It is 95 years since Kahlil Gibran’s seminal text The Prophet was published. This London exhibition featuring 38 Middle Eastern artists celebrates his timeless impact.
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Beirut Art Fair, now in its ninth edition has highlights that include a KAWS exhibition of over 40 figurines, a retrospective of Paul Guiragossian and a look back at a century of Lebanese photography
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For those of you in Dubai over the summer, Alserkal Avenue’s summer programme kicks off this week with a carefully curated programme of events.
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Ways of Seeing, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath’s touring exhibition will open in NYU Abu Dhabi after the summer. It has been reworked to include new artists from the UAE and others.
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With literary references in this show abound, this exhibition tantalises the senses and also throws an interesting perspective on life and love in the 21st century.
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The wait is over. Salvator Mundi will be revealed to the world on September 18, 2018 at Louvre Abu Dhabi
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Budding photographers, apply now for Vantage Point 6 - under the theme of performance.
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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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