For emerging artists, travelling to another country to exhibit can be rewarding but also invaluable for their careers. This group show from Dubai is up in Amman for the design week.
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The Alumni Return is a group exhibition of eight artists and designers who have been associated with Tashkeel studio hub and have gone on to study for master’s degrees. This is a presentation of their final works for their studies.
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The curators for the 2020 UAE National Pavilion will curate an exhibition around the theme of sea salt. Wael Al Awar and Kenichi Teramoto will present an exhibition exploring sea salt as a traditional, locally-sourced building material, and its potential uses for developing sustainable habitation in desert environments like the UAE.
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A Dubai gallery launches a new initiative to make buying art easier for first time buyers or indeed, young collectors. Art For All Collective offers installment plans for anyone looking to purchase an artwork from a selection of some of the most promising emerging talents in the region
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The event came to a close in June 2019, here is a look back over the Sharjah Biennial’s 14th edition, which had three curators for the first time and achieved a wonderful symbiosis of place and content.
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The artwork of Najat Makki is a central part of the newly inaugurated Cultural Foundation in Abu Dhabi. Her exhibition shows her work across her career and the space also features a tribute exhibition to her talent
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A sketch battle competition open to automobile and product designers, graphic designers and artists based in the UAE will launch with a cash prize.
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A travelling exhibition exploring the notion of home will travel around the Gulf and the UK as part of a new initiative by the British Council.
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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.
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Sharjah Art Foundation today announces their autumn programming. Here is a round up of the highlights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This year’s autumn show looks at imaginary landscapes from four of the UAE’s most vibrant emerging artists.
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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.
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