Culture in Times of COVID-19: Resilience, Recovery, Revival is an interesting exercise, basically because international crises demand international responses – coordinated, multilateral, policy-based, and sufficiently funded, with deliverables at both the regional and global levels. Good luck with that. This […]
SIFF – the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth – is a magpie favourite among highly-targeted UAE festivals, thanks partly to its openness in selection but mostly because of the unselfconscious enthusiasm of the audiences. The ninth SIFF […]
The NFT business may have lost some of its lustre recently, but Christie’s clearly thinks that’s just a blip. It has launched an investment fund with “several million dollars” to out into emerging tech companies in the business of “creating […]
The imminent World Cup in Qatar probably isn’t intended to fill the country with culture-hungry art lovers, but it has provided a mass boost to infrastructure that includes a series of cultural initiatives for this autumn – a programme that […]
The recently-announced winners of the eleventh season of the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award are sharing a total prize fund this year of $450,000, making it the largest available monetary reward among photography competitions. The […]
Next year’s Sharjah Architecture Triennial will bear the title The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability. This theme refers to the culture of re-use, re-appropriation, innovation, collaboration and adaptation in the Global South, created by issues of scarcity and […]
Alserkal Avenue has picked an interesting theme for its summer programme, running over three weekends in August: More Than Human looks at the interaction (or maybe intersection) between human and non-human lives. The programming has been handed over to five […]
Abu Dhabi Art has announced that its 2022 edition will be the largest to date, with 78 galleries from 27 countries (14 of them from the UAE). The list includes a record 45 returnees, which clearly represents a vote of […]
You certainly couldn’t say that Louvre Abu Dhabi isn’t getting value (in artistic terms, at least) from its relationship with Agence France Muséums – its autumn show is sure to be a crowd-pleasing blockbuster, “one of the most significant Impressionist […]
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, […]
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