Some music engages the mind, asking questions and making you think. Some music strokes your head and heart, soothing and stimulating and making you feel. And some music occupies you completely, requiring your complete and utter participation. That’s the kind [ … ]
We’ve followed the progress of Fathima Mohiuddin for some time, initially because she had one of the most distinctive styles on Dubai’s urban art scene. She’s also articulate about her art and imaginative about its application; this piece, written for her [ … ]
Abu Dhabi Art has announced the four 2017 winners of its annual Abu Dhabi Art Wings Project: Shaikha Aysha Saqer Al-Qasemi, Lateefa Mohammed Al-Nuaimi, Nour Obaid Al-Hefeiti, and Shaima Abdulrahman Al-Marzouqi. The Wings Project is a yearly competition that runs [ … ]
The Dubai-based Canadian-Jordanian designer Hamza Al Omari (right) has been awarded this year’s Middle East Emergent Designer Prize for his piece Mahad. It will be exhibited next month by Van Cleef & Arpels in d3 during Dubai Design Week – [ … ]
Christo and Jeanne-Claude have been creating monumental works on a huge scale for over half a century, and Christo is committed to supporting the next generation of artists and creative practitioners in the UAE. The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award is [ … ]
Dubai is an urban laboratory: without many of the constraints on land availability, legislation, social concerns and finance that hamstring other cities, Dubai has become a place where new ideas can be explored and new paradigms tested. At the same [ … ]
The long-running Montreal-based electronic music festival MUTEK is coming to Dubai, and the organisers are promising that the three-day event on 16-18 November will be “a gathering unlike anything audiences in the Middle East have previously experienced”. Combining live contemporary [ … ]
Art Jameel has launched a commissioning programme based on the Jameel Arts Centre, its forthcoming contemporary arts institution in Dubai (currently being built in Jadaf, on the south side of Dubai Creek, and due to open in winter 2018: architects’ [ … ]
Stage Write, the 24-hour playwriting competition for 10-minute scripts, is back for its fifth year. Register for the competition – as an individual or a two-person team – by sending an email to info@thejunctiondubai.com before midday on 26 October. Then [ … ]
This week sees another boundary-bending evening from The Arts Center at NYUAD in the form of Queen Between. Susheela Raman is an innovative, imaginative musician with a completely inclusive approach. With her long-time musical (and life) partner, Sam Mills, she [ … ]
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