Art

How to listen (and maybe not to hear)

Alserkal Arts Foundation has announced its programme for 2021-2022, an project that explores the power of sound and spoken language and includes the UAE’s first ambisonic* landscape. The latter comes in the form of a new exhibition, A Slightly Curving [ … ]

Art

The Dubai Collection makes its public debut

The Dubai Collection – an interesting exercise in persuading private and corporate entities to loan works from their art collections for public view – makes its first public appearance next month in the form of an exhibition titled When Images [ … ]

Design

Dubai Design Week returns IRL

Dubai Design Week is back, and looking better than ever with a busy in-person programme of more than 200 activities of various kinds. While some of these are located around the city, DDW does clearly benefit from having a defined [ … ]

Festival

Litfest finds a new home

The Emirates Airline Festival of Literature 2022 will run 3 to 12 February in a new canalside location – it’s moved from its long-time home at Festival City to a new venue, the Al Habtoor City complex of three Hilton-family [ … ]