Christie’s first-half sales figures suggest that the global pandemic has been inconvenient rather than catastrophic for the auction market. Christie’s announced £2.5 billion in sales for the first half of 2021, up 13 percent on the first half of 2019 […]
Another day, another luxury brand sponsoring an art prize: this time it’s Louvre Abu Dhabi, partnering with Swiss watchmaker Richard Mille for The Richard Mille Art Prize – four to six shortlisted artists selected from an open call get an […]
Riyadh Art’s open call for submissions for the third edition of the Tuwaiq International Sculpture Symposium (TISS) produced proposals from more than 400 sculptors in 71 countries. Twenty have now been selected. They will be creating work in marble in […]
Abu Dhabi Art has produced something of a coup in its announcement that the guest curators for its 2021 Beyond: Emerging Artists programme will be Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, co-founders of multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented and among the […]
It’s starting to look as though an arts festival of some kind is a must-have for the image-conscious emirate – even the smallest. Ajman Tourism Development Department is to run the Al Murabbaa Arts Festival for ten days from the […]
The Bulgari Contemporary Art Award is a new addition to the roster of opportuniites available to UAE-based artists. It’s not an open call, however, despite the promises that it will “support and inspire talents and empower them to be globally […]
What looks like the biggest and best yet of Monira Al Qadiri’s outsized sculptures of iridescent oilwell drill bits has launched Expo 2020 Dubai’s Public Art Programme. A Kuwaiti now living and working in Belrin, Monira Al Qadiri is known […]
The ninth edition of The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award has been won by three architecture students at the American University of Sharjah: Nour Elbery and Marawan Mahmoud, both from Egypt, and Rashid Modibbo from Nigeria. Their winning submission, titled Cocoon, seeks to demonstrate […]
UPDATED 27, 30 June and 9 July 2021 The UAE’s first ever statistical study on the creative economy has been published by Dubai Statistics Center for Dubai Culture. Centring on Dubai, of course, it puts up some facts to support […]
The Abu Dhabi government is planning to invest a further $6bn in the cultural and creative industries over the next five years as the emirate uses the need for a post-pandemic stimulus to continue its diversification away from its economic […]
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