Architecture
Finding 50 to Follow
The magpie team is once again putting together its annual list of the 50 most exciting, innovative and stimulating people in the UAE who are making a difference to the cultural and creative life of […]
Crafts
Design and crafts support programme by Expo 2020
A newly launched Expo 2020 Design and Crafts Programme will offer “creative, technical and economic support” to “local brands and emerging talents” in the UAE. According to the press statement released during Dubai Design Week, […]
Design
Chairpersons: winners of the Herman Miller / DIDI Ergo Chair competition
Dubai Design Week’s many delights included the exhibition of five designs for ergonomic seating. Herman Miller had partnered with students and faculty from the Dubai Institute of Design to bring us ‘Ergo Chair—Student Designs for […]
Conference
Abu Dhabi’s Art Basel Inside cancelled less than three months before it opens
Art Basel has cancelled its exclusive Art Basel Inside event planned for 14-16 February in Abu Dhabi. The official statement blames the timescale, saying “Art Basel Inside in Abu Dhabi was always an ambitious project […]
Arts Centre
What’s left when the data’s gone: Kaki King in Abu Dhabi
“I walked into Kaki King’s final performance at NYUAD Art Center believing I knew exactly what I had signed on for,” said magpie’s reviewer at the last of the three performances of Data Not Found […]
Architecture
Rifat Chadirji Prize for Sharjah art museum design goes to Mexican studio
The Rifat Chadirji Prize for 2019, for the design of a new art museum in Sharjah, has gone to Rolando Rodriguez Leal and Natalia Wrzask from Aidia Studio in Mexico City. The winners will receive […]
Analysis
A cultural free zone for Al Quoz
Dubai Culture has announced the implementation of the first phase of a large redevelopment plan for Al Quoz that formalises the Alserkal Avenue area as the centre of a new creative free zone “to attract […]
Award
Taken with a pinch of salt: the Audi Innovation Award winner
The 2019 Audi Innovation Award for the Middle East was presented to Amman-based design studio Twelve Degrees at the opening of Dubai Design Week. Simplification was this year’s theme, and Twelve Degrees came up with […]
Festival
A new festival for Abu Dhabi: old meets new?
This December Abu Dhabi is getting a new city-centre festival, centred on the recently redeveloped Al Hosn area. Essentially it’s a replacement for the old Qasr Al Hosn Festival, which took place on some of […]
Culture
Abu Dhabi’s five-year culture plan: short on detail, long on tradition
The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi has unveiled a five-year Culture Sector Strategy that has the aim of “strengthening the foundations and infrastructure of Abu Dhabi’s cultural ecosystem”. It also aims to […]
