Art Jameel has announced an impressive opening season for Hayy Jameel, the Jeddah companion to Dubai’s Jameel Art Centre, which opens to the public on 6 December. It’s a packed schedule – December inaugurates Hayy Arts and a bevy of […]
The Arts Center at NYUAD has been running Hekayah | The Story for the past six years. The idea is simple: an annual celebration of the UAE’s diversity, realised as a programme of performances in different spheres by performers from […]
What’s an arts centre for? Well, there’s always a need to introduce the audience to new experiences and to show them connections that they might have missed, and maybe that testing of boundaries is a key role for them. And […]
The programme for the fourth edition of Sharjah Film Platform (SFP4), Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual film festival, has just been released. It has in-cinema screenings of over 50 films, including some world and regional premieres, culminating in awards for experimental, […]
‘Cultural exchange’ might be an overused phrase these days, but there’s no denying its value – sharing ideas, traditions, knowledge, behaviours from a background completely different to your own is the essence of intellectual openness. And no, you don’t have […]
Abu Dhabi has joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, an initiative launched in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities which recognise creativity as a major factor in their sustainable urban development plans. The Network allows member cities to select only […]
In the wake of Covid, should the design industry rethink its reliance on extravagant, wasteful trade fairs and look for a more sustainable alternative? Esra Lemmens looks at the options – and the opportunities. Over the last century, the design […]
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra – that’s its rather beautiful Snøhetta-designed Dhahram HQ in the picture) has been burnishing its credentials as a regional thinktank for the cultural and creative ecosystem with the release of a series […]
Alserkal Arts Foundation has announced its programme for 2021-2022, an project that explores the power of sound and spoken language and includes the UAE’s first ambisonic* landscape. The latter comes in the form of a new exhibition, A Slightly Curving […]
The Dubai Collection – an interesting exercise in persuading private and corporate entities to loan works from their art collections for public view – makes its first public appearance next month in the form of an exhibition titled When Images […]
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