Sharjah Art Foundation announced the winners of its inaugural photography prize at the opening of Vantage Point Sharjah 9 (VPS9) in Al Hamriyah Studios. Presenting works by 53 photographers from 30 countries ad selected from more than 500 entries, the […]
Equinox, an animated sculpture by British artist Mat Collishaw, is going to be one of the stars of Expo 2020 Dubai. It has just been unveiled at the Grimshaw-designed Terra – The Sustainability Pavilion. Equinox is a 3D moving installation […]
DCT Abu Dhabi has added a directory of local artists to its CulturAll website. It currently lists 80 artists from across the UAE (not just from Abu Dhabi); each gets a page with a short profile and a mugshot, some […]
Warehouse421’s Artistic Development Exhibition Program, launched in collaboration with The Institute for Emerging Art, has its first cohort. Ammar Al Attar, Mohammed Khalid and Jill Magi will each get AED 10,000 for their participation, plus AED 24,000 production fee and […]
Ajlan Gharem has been announced as the winner of the sixth edition of the Jameel Prize, the £25,000 award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition. Gharem was chosen by the prize’s jury for his architectural installation Paradise […]
Over 2,000 young inventors entered the James Dyson Award this year, and the jury has nominated a winner and two runners up in each off the 28 participating regions. For the UAE, that means more kudos for the Shield project […]
Dubai is getting a brand new three-day festival of theatre under the name Theme 8, with performances at the Theatre at Mall of the Emirates at the end of the month. The festival is for original short plays (8 to […]
Three days of talks, performances, “dining experiences”, art installations and screenings from an invited roster of “acclaimed global creative talent” are featured in a new ‘creativity festival’ to be held at Abu Dhabi’s Manarat al Saadiyat in October. From the […]
Bill Bragin drinks his coffee from a mug with an elegantly calligraphed design. On one side it reads ‘definitely’, on the other ‘inshAllah’. He commissioned it for himself last year, and he says that “definitely, inshAllah” is currently his favourite […]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has named the initial intake of 14 UAE-based artists for its new artists development programme Numoo. The aim of the year-long programme, currently a pilot supported by a grant from the US Mission […]
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