Christie’s upcoming spring auction of Modern and Contemporary Art in Dubai will be led by a 6m long painting by the Palestinian Ismail Shammout. Odyssey of a People – estimated at $800,000-900,000 – was painted in 1980; reading from right to [ … ]
The announcement by Christo that he’s cancelled Over the River installation he has been pushing for 20 years should mean some progress on his Mastaba project in Abu Dhabi for the world’s largest sculpture. “After pursuing Over The River project for [ … ]
TCA Abu Dhabi is offering UAE-based mixed media artists the opportunity to participate in an exhibition at the Al Qattara Arts Centre in Al Ain. The exhibition, which opens in March and runs for three months, has the title Collage [ … ]
The 36th edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF) – to be held late 2017 – will feature the UK as ‘Country of Honour’. Apparently this “exemplifies the deep-rooted historical ties binding the UAE and the UK and our [ … ]
The five UAE-based contemporary artists who will be participating at the 57th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale have been named. They are all established figures in the art scene here: Nujoom Alghanem, Sara Al Haddad, Vikram Divecha, Lantian [ … ]
The Short+Sweet festival of short plays returns to Abu Dhabi on 20 and 21 January, again showing at NYUAD Arts Center’s Black Box theatre – a suitably intimate environment for a feast of short (sometimes very short) theatre. The Short+Sweet [ … ]
The first Dubai International Publishing Conference has been announced, organised by the Emirates Literature Foundation with the Executive Council of Dubai. It runs alongside the Foundation’s LitFest, on 5 and 6 March, and packs a lot of speakers plus a [ … ]
Arrival and departure areas at Dubai Airports are to get a whole new set of “reading opportunities” that go well beyond the usual options of departure boards and coffeshop price lists. Dubai Culture is to provide e-books and library corners [ … ]
Dubai has acquired another non-commercial gallery space with the opening last month of La Galerie, a space in the spiffily renovated Alliance Française premises in Oud Metha. The gallery will be dedicated to artists from “the Francophone and Francophile communities”, [ … ]
It looks like the NYUAD Art Gallery has become as important an artistic voice for the country as the NYUAD Arts Center has for performance. Programming at both has been very impressive during the past year, delivering both quality and [ … ]
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