Australia’s Polyglot Theatre is back with another unmissable interactive family event: Tangle is coming to the Central Plaza at NYU Abu Dhabi, and it looks like a lot of fun. Polyglot was a bit hit in The Arts Center’s inaugural [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi is coming up for its first anniversary, and three days of celebrations have been announced. The standout is a gig from Dua Lipa, but there’s also a series of pop-up spoken word performances directed by Dorian Paul [ … ]
This month will see some significant additions to the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s collections – 11 acquisitions for its permanent galleries and 40 new loans from the French museums and institutions that are the gallery’s partners (there are 13 of these, [ … ]
Abu Dhabi’s single most important historic and cultural landmark, Al Hosn, is to reopen on 7 December. “Days of celebrations and public events” are promised. This is genuinely a big deal. Al Hosn includes the city’s first built-to-last building (in [ … ]
Much of the public activity of the Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation, which opened its doors to students this term, has been around fashion – the background of DIDI’s dean and most of its Board members. True, there has [ … ]
Art books generally fall into two categories – books about art and/or artists, in which case the writing is the important characteristic: and books that are intended to be looked at, where its design and the overall quality of the [ … ]
Dubai Design Week is returning in November for its fourth outing with a commendably ambitious programme – the most comprehensive to date, with around 230 events including exhibitions, commissioned installations, awards and competitions, talks and workshops, tours and experiences for [ … ]
Art Dubai has announced that Chloe Vaitsou will be joining the team as International Director, working alongside the longstanding Artistic Director Pablo del Val. Together they will oversee the direction of the fair, with Vaitsou’s role being the development and [ … ]
Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have been named curators of the UAE’s National Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. A curator duo in great demand, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath are responsible for the fascinating Ways of Seeing show at [ … ]
The sixth Sharjah International Children’s Film Festival (SICFF 2018) opens on 14 October and runs for six days. The first children’s film festival in the country (and indeed the region), it’s the biggest yet – 138 films in total, including 54 [ … ]
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