The eighth season of performances, talks, and workshops at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi continues the mix much as before, and that’s no bad thing – an eclectic selection of music, dance and theatre, the kind of thing [ … ]
The art market seems to be recovering nicely from the pandemic, with the art fairs apparently unfazed and the buyers continuing to spend. According to the last Art Basel /UBS Global Art Market Report, global sales recovered strongly in 2021, [ … ]
NYU Abu Dhabi has secured something of a coup with the appointment of Wole Soyinka as Arts Professor of Theater. The 1986 winner of the Nobel prize for literature, Soyinka is a towering figure in culture, human rights activism and [ … ]
Culture in Times of COVID-19: Resilience, Recovery, Revival is an interesting exercise, basically because international crises demand international responses – coordinated, multilateral, policy-based, and sufficiently funded, with deliverables at both the regional and global levels. Good luck with that. This [ … ]
SIFF – the Sharjah International Film Festival for Children and Youth – is a magpie favourite among highly-targeted UAE festivals, thanks partly to its openness in selection but mostly because of the unselfconscious enthusiasm of the audiences. The ninth SIFF [ … ]
The NFT business may have lost some of its lustre recently, but Christie’s clearly thinks that’s just a blip. It has launched an investment fund with “several million dollars” to out into emerging tech companies in the business of “creating [ … ]
The imminent World Cup in Qatar probably isn’t intended to fill the country with culture-hungry art lovers, but it has provided a mass boost to infrastructure that includes a series of cultural initiatives for this autumn – a programme that [ … ]
The recently-announced winners of the eleventh season of the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award are sharing a total prize fund this year of $450,000, making it the largest available monetary reward among photography competitions. The [ … ]
Next year’s Sharjah Architecture Triennial will bear the title The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability. This theme refers to the culture of re-use, re-appropriation, innovation, collaboration and adaptation in the Global South, created by issues of scarcity and [ … ]
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