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magpie Weekly issue 7.27 / 16 Apr 2026

16 April 2026
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: For me, painting is but another word for feeling | John Constable … Art Dubai reborn Art Dubai’s revised attendance list for what is being called a Special Edition features 50 galleries [ … ]
Festival

Theatre of war?

8 April 2026
It might not have escaped your notice that Dubai is about to witness two short play festivals. You might think the world of 10-minute theatre is a bit too circumscribed for this kind of arm-wrestling, but it is happening – [ … ]
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magpie Weekly issue 7.25 / 2 Apr 2026

2 April 2026
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: We hardly ever realise that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye | Carlos Castaneda … Update Five weeks and counting, and maybe a second [ … ]
Art market

The art market inches back to growth

16 March 2026
In 2025, global art sales hit $59.6 billion – and that’s up by 4 percent year-on-year. The modest increase follows two successive years of decline, though the 2025 total is still well short of the post-Covid 2022 peak of $70.4 billion. So says the tenth annual Art Basel [ … ]