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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Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath are among those on hand to guide and mentor emerging artists at this year’s Abu Dhabi Art.
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Art Dubai, set to take place in March 2019, has announced a list of the 93 participating galleries. Here it is for your perusal
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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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Applications are now open for the Alserkal Avenue Residency taking place next year.
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Singer Dua Lipa will headline the one year anniversary celebrations at Louvre Abu Dhabi in November 2018.
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As an accompaniment to my review on Ways of Seeing, this is a Q&A interview with curators Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath.
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Ways of Seeing is the third iteration of an exhibition that takes its roots in the seminal 1970s text by John Berger. It asks audiences to question the methods of viewing the works and includes leading Emirati artists for the Abu Dhabi edition.
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Art Dubai and Cinema Akil have just entered into a long-term partnership. In light of this, I spoke to Butheina about her labour of love, the UAE’s first and only arthouse picture-house
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Chloe Vaitsou will join Art Dubai as International Director in December 2018.
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Ahead of the anticipated opening of the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai next month, I interviewed Antonia Carver for Art Dubai.
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A new photography studio, exhibition space and platform for photographers of all levels is now open in Abu Dhabi.
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A curated exhibition curated by the Samdani Art Foundation and hosted by Alserkal Avenue forms part of the programming for March 2019.
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An exploration and extension of painting as a medium with strong subject matter relating to the social and economic structure of the UAE makes Mohammed Kazem’s most recent show an excellent presentation both conceptually and formally.
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Curatorial pairing Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath chosen to curate the UAE’s National Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennale.
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Abdulqader Al Rais is one of the first Emirati’s to pursue art as a professional career and his versatile talent has served him well over his five decade career. A large international retrospective of his work is now on show in Paris.
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Shaikha Al Mazrou explores with colour, form and materiality to create visual illusions based within the formal language of minimalism in her debut solo exhibition in Dubai
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