Portrait of an Egyptian princess who lived her life through a lens. A student and a researcher pulled together a collection of documents to tell the intriguing story of Egypt’s Princess Fawzia Fuad for an exhibition in Cairo.

Sharjah Art Foundation today announces their autumn programming. Here is a round up of the highlights.

Surface Tension is an expertly curated group show that takes a selection of emerging artists working across new media to explore notions of the present moment and offering a dip into ongoing, worldwide conversations.

Lorenzo Quinn is a world renowned sculptor whose signature trademark - the human hand - has allowed people to connect with his work from far and wide. I interviewed him for Shawati Magazine.

The summer exhibition at Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde is more of an open studio, morphing and mutating as the weeks go by. The Iranian trio - Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh, Hesam Rahmanian - have titled the ongoing process We Are Open For Installation and it will culminate in a final show in September. Read my latest update here.

Applications are now open for the third edition of the Ithra Art Prize. The $100,000 prize is a collaboration between The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) and Art Dubai.

With decades of experience working in the field of cross-cultural engagement, Nasif Kayed, who is also known as The Arab Culturalist is an expert at answering tricky questions and straddling both Eastern and Western ideas.

Renowned British sculptor recently unveiled a new sculpture in Sharjah as commissioned for the grounds of the new library, House of Wisdom. Here, I caught up with him to find out more.

This year’s autumn show looks at imaginary landscapes from four of the UAE’s most vibrant emerging artists.

In this interview with master calligrapher Samir Sayegh, he talks about liberating the form from meaning and searching for new aspects to make it fresh and contemporary.

Sadik Kwaish Alfraji is one of several artists awarded at the Cairo Biennale, making a comeback after 8 years.

A deeper look at the ongoing installation by the trio Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian. They are taking over the gallery space for the summer, subverting the art system as we know it.

Investigating architecture aesthetically as well as its social and political roles, Driss Ouadahi’s solo show is a display of the past 20 years of his practice.

Amir Khojestah’s The Gloomiest Sunset in the World is a satirical look at the state of the world today with some expert painterly techniques, which call into question the notion of the portrait.

The Sharjah Art Foundation announced today that Omar Kholeif has been named director of collections and senior curator. He will be charged with overseeing the foundation’s acquisition strategy, developing exhibitions and other programming, and securing international partnerships.

In a pop-up exhibition, Cristiana De Marchi explores notions of national identity, migration and the fleeting nature of clouds.

In a kind of gallery takeover lasting the duration of the summer, the trio of artists Rokni and Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian are using the gallery as a working studio working towards a final exhibition to be unveiled in September.

The annual open call photography exhibition in Sharjah is open to international residents for the first time this year. Applications are being accepted until June 1, 2019