Curtin University Dubai, an Australian university with expat campuses in Malaysia, Singapore, and now Dubai, has just opened for business in International Academic City. It’s hoping to make some noise and also to brand itself appropriately with its inaugural week-long [ … ]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has another coup: one of Africa’s greatest living female vocalists and performers, “Africa’s greatest living diva” according to NPR and “the undisputed queen of African music” as the Daily Telegraph put it. Not just [ … ]
Entrepreneur Peter Goodwin believes the UAE’s art business – from artists to galleries – should be exempt from VAT. He outlined the arguments in a think piece that had the desired effect: it got us thinking. So we started a [ … ]
Barcelona isn’t the most obvious candidate for comparison with Abu Dhabi, but defying the obvious is probably one of the chief goals of contemporary art. So the exhibition slated for the Manarat al Saadiyat on 2 February, lumpily titled ‘From [ … ]
Dubai Culture says it received a record number of applications for the eight SIKKA Art Fair 2018, to be held in Al Fahidi during Art Week (17-26 March). It’s in the process of assessing more than 200 submissions. SIKKA has [ … ]
Hard on the heels of the just-finished Short+Sweet Abu Dhabi, the better-established Dubai version of the 10-minute play festival is about to kick off. These days the Dubai festival is second in size only to Sydney, the original home of [ … ]
In an initiative that is the first of its kind in the Middle East, Accra’s Gallery 1957 is taking over Lawrie Shabibi’s exhibition space in Alserkal Avenue for six weeks to include the Art Dubai period. It’s a move that [ … ]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi is hosting the third running of the capital’s version of the Short+Sweet short play festival on 19 and 20 January; and if you’re in the area, you should take this opportunity to check [ … ]
If you haven’t been to the Louvre Abu Dhabi yet, you seem to be alone. The car parks and snaking queues spilleth over and are a testament to the fact that residents of the capital are keen for an art [ … ]
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