Stung by the calculation 15 years ago that the UAE had the world’s largest per capita carbon footprint, a lot has been done at the official level to improve the country’s sustainability – but even through the country has reduced [ … ]
It’s a tough time to be running any kind of mass participation event, but at a time when most film festivals have postponed or cancelled Sharjah Art Foundation did pretty well with its hybrid Sharjah Film Platform 3 – a [ … ]
It’s often the case that the same names appear time and time again when it comes to artistic and cultural largesse in the UAE – the commissions, the grants, the applause, all seem to go a narrow (and closed) group [ … ]
NYU Abu Dhabi has set up what looks like the start of a significant research and archival centre for Arabic art. The Arab Center for the Study of Art joins the 80+ faculty labs, projects and research centres at the [ … ]
Our World Heritage, an initiative by an apparently broad-based group of individuals in the heritage conservation business, has been launched with an agenda to act as watchdog for (and maybe even reform) UNESCO’s Convention on World Heritage. Unofficial and independent, [ … ]
The Alserkal family has announced that the two foundations set up by Alserkal brothers to promote the arts will join forces. This makes good sense, not least because it has been all too easy to confuse the Alserkal Cultural Foundation [ … ]
With just a couple of weeks to go, Abu Dhabi Art has named the three young Emirati artists commissioned for its Beyond: Emerging Artists programme – Hind Mezaina, Afra Al Dhaheri and Afra Al Suwaidi. They are to produce works [ … ]
The official UAE National Day Show would probably have been another live spectacular along the lines of last year’s Zayed Sports Stadium event, but Covid-19 restrictions may have forced a reappraisal that will produce a better show with a much [ … ]
Designing something to sit on is a staple of design school projects and a no-brainer as a subject for a competition: a chair an everyday object that nearly everyone uses, a classic in terms of asking function and form to [ … ]
Abu Dhabi’s Department of Culture and Tourism is putting original art into some of the malls under a newly announced partnership with Aldar Properties. The Art Space initiative will provide exhibition spaces for UAE-based artists “at retail locations across the [ … ]
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