Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the initial selection of participating artists for Sharjah Biennial 14, opening in March 2019. SB14 has the subtitle Leaving the Echo Chamber. It will feature three distinct exhibitions by the three curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif [ … ]
The future of the Dubai International Film Festival is in doubt, following the official announcement of “a new strategy to support the growth and evolution of the film and content industries in the region” that includes the cancellation of the [ … ]
Concrete was created in Alserkal as a space for museum-standard exhibitions. Most of the time it’s basically another general-purpose events location for Dubai; but as the Atassi Foundation show Syria: Into the Light demonstrated a year ago, Concrete really does [ … ]
Three finalists have been named for the fourth edition of Urban Commissions, with the winner to be unveiled at Dubai Design Week. There were over 100 submissions the annual competition, which this year called for designs for an urban water [ … ]
The Founder’s Memorial, a permanent national tribute commemorating the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, opens in Abu Dhabi on 22 April to mark the start of the Year of Zayed. The Memorial uses art, landscape, words, stories and [ … ]
We’re used to seeing the Big Picture: news isn’t news unless it’s accompanied by gunfire and explosions, crowds running and people screaming, buildings shattered and countries devastated. The bigger the better, especially if it’s served up in short chunks of [ … ]
The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has launched a national competition to design gifts that will be presented to the United Nations under the name “Gift of Zayed”. It’s open to UAE nationals and residents and the [ … ]
Meraas, the Dubai-based property company responsible for many of the sexier developments along the city’s coastal strip, has opened the fourth edition of its Urban Pixels photography competition. The competition runs from 19 April to 10 May, is open to [ … ]
Under the aegis of Dubai Design District and the label ‘UAE Design Stories: The Next Generation from The Emirates’, an exhibition of work from some of the brightest Emirati design talent is getting some international exposure – starting with the [ … ]
The first two artists to win the chance to put a design on to the new LED façade of the world’s tallest habitable building have been named as Pedro Narvaez from Mexico and Hiroyuki Hosaka from Japan. Their winning designs [ … ]
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