Wadi AlFann – the valley of the arts – is being created as part of the $15 billion AlUla masterplan for a major cultural hub in Saudi Arabia. As a first phase, five top names have been commissioned for permanent, […]
teamLab, the interdisciplinary group of artists, programmers, engineers, CGI animators, mathematicians and architects who refer to themselves as ‘ultratechnologists’, is to create a new “home for infinite curiosity” on Saadiyat. If it’s anything like teamLab’s existing portfolio, it should be […]
UPDATED Stephanie Rosenthal has been named as the new project director for the long-awaited Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. She joins on 1 September and will take charge of the institution’s much delayed opening – currently forecast for 2025. This is apparently […]
The formal announcement for the future of the Expo 2020 Dubai infrastructure confirms that much of it will be featured in Expo City Dubai, to be opened officially on 1 October – which reportedly includes or repurposes more than 80 […]
The winners of the tenth edition of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award have been named as three NYUAD sophomore undergraduates – Emirati national Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Gerald Jason Cruz from the Philippines, and Jennifer Tsai from Taiwan (left to right […]
Sharjah Art Foundation’s Flying Saucer redevelopment has been selected as one of the 20 projects shortlisted for the 2022 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. The 20 projects have been selected by an independent Master Jury from a pool of 463 […]
Dubai Future Accelerators, the project-based co-working initiative of the Dubai Future Foundation, has been named as one of the winners of the international iF Design Award 2022. The iF Design Award is one of the biggest and best established competitions […]
It seems the UAE likes to read. The LiFest organiser Emirates Literature Foundation and its PR agency Four Communications have published an analysis of online and social media data referencing books and reading – and in the UAE there was […]
The 15th edition of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction has been won by Bread on Uncle Milad’s Table, the debut novel by Mohamed Alnaas – the first Libyan author to win the prize, and at 31 the youngest winner […]
As part of its 10-year AED 30 billion Culture and Creative Industries Strategy, Abu Dhabi has plans to develop a regional comic book industry that could “ultimately” compete on the world stage; and step one is the launch of Sandstorm […]
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