Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the five winners of this year’s Vantage Point Photography Awards, presented during the opening of the Vantage Point Sharjah exhibition at Al Hamriyah Studios last Friday. First prize and $5,000 went to Md Fazla Rabbi [ … ]
Faysal Tabbarah, Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Architecture at the American University of Sharjah, has been named by National Pavilion UAE as the curator for the UAE’s participation in the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia [ … ]
If you’re a magpie reader, there’s a reasonable chance that you’d like a job in or around the arts. For some of us, it’s all a matter of chance. For others there might more agency involved, particularly if you’re at [ … ]
A chunky ceramic jar found at Sharjah’s Muwaileh archaeological site has gone on display at Sharjah Archaeology Museum after a period of painstaking reconstruction. The jar provides more evidence for a bustling trade scene in Muwaileh during the first millennium [ … ]
Anne Eschapasse, a seasoned culture professional with an impressive CV who was formerly Deputy Director of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, has this week taken up a new role as Managing Director for France Muséums in Abu Dhabi. This [ … ]
Now here’s an interesting game: list the most significant German film directors of the 1970s on. Now restrict it to those directors who have more than 60 feature films to their name, including a Nicholas Cage vehicle and 31 full-length [ … ]
Abu Dhabi Art has named Abed Al Kadiri as the guest curator for its Beyond: Emerging Artists programme. As part of the year-long programme, Al Kadiri will mentor three UAE-based artists: Majd Alloush from Syria, Mohamed Khalid and Sarah Al [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi has signed another Memorandum of Understanding to extend collaboration, this time with NYU Abu Dhabi. The MoU route is an accepted mechanism in UAE institutions to formalise a relationship without specifying very much in the way of [ … ]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has always aimed to build an audience for contemporary dance in the UAE – “giving exposure to world class companies, providing training for local artists, and opening the doors for larger conversations through [ … ]
The second half of the twentieth century was (to say the least) an interesting time for the Gulf – mostly because of oil, of course, with its many political, economic and social impacts. And art was included in those. Several [ … ]
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