Sharjah is looking ambitious right now, building on the success of cultural institutions like the Museum of Islamic Civilization and the Sharjah Biennial and (perhaps belatedly) developing its tourism appeal. One of the leaders in this trajectory is Bee’ah, Sharjah’s [ … ]
Art Dubai has announced what it terms a “curatorial partnership” with Art Jameel for the upcoming edition of the Campus Art Dubai programme. Campus Art Dubai is a competitive educational platform for artists, curators, writers and cultural producers based in [ … ]
The contract for the design for marine transport stations along the Dubai Canal has been awarded to the architecture and engineering consultancy Atkins. This presumably happened some time ago – Atkins wasn’t mentioned when the renders for the designs were [ … ]
The Smovies is a platform that provides filmmakers an opportunity to shoot their own films, and supports them by providing them a platform for the films to be viewed. This sixth edition is looking for 60-second shorts on the theme [ … ]
With 2017 nominated as ‘The Year Of Giving’ in the UAE, Montegrappa Pens has pledged to donate 5 percent of the regional sale revenues of all their regular edition fountain pens and special edition Hemingway pens (above) to the Emirates [ … ]
The sixth annual Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival is including for the first time a category for Recycled Art within its visual arts strand. Submissions must use recyclable materials from the emirate “or focus on telling the story of [ … ]
Sharjah’s rather fine Mleiha Archaeological Centre and the impressive Wahat al Karama memorial park are the two UAE projects that have been shortlisted for World Architecture Festival awards this year. The competition is fierce – although Dabbagh Architects’ Mleiha Centre [ … ]
Continued global demand and “creative sale planning” helped Christie’s sell £2.35bn worth of art in the first six months of 2017, a 14 percent increase over the same period in 2016. Industry commentators seemed mildly surprised by the figures. Digging [ … ]
Abu Dhabi Art 2017 has unveiled the 48 galleries from 18 different countries that will be featured in this year’s fair (8-11 November). This is more galleries than last year – which had 35 – and it also seems to [ … ]
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