The weather’s getting more pleasant for long outdoor evenings, which means it’s time for The Arts Center at NYUAD to move some of its performance outside into the East Plaza. The first such al fresco event this season features two [ … ]
The 9th edition of the Middle East Emergent Designer Prize has been won by a novel bookstand design called Ascension. It’s by 20-year-old Moufida Mohideen, currently studying for a BA in Interior Architecture and Design at the University of Sharjah. [ … ]
The Musée du Louvre is to loan Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint John the Baptist to Louvre Abu Dhabi. The painting will be on show in the permanent galleries of the UAE museum from 8 November, and it will be with [ … ]
Exit 11 Performing Arts Company has selected nine artists, including four in the UAE, for the second edition of its cross-border, cross-disciplinary virtual residency programme for emerging artists. The three-month residency, the Virtual Collaborative Program for Emerging Artists (VICE), is [ … ]
Alongside its more prosaic role as a landlord for the 70 or so warehouse-style units in Al Quoz that are so well suited to contemporary art galleries and associated businesses, Alserkal Avenue sees itself as having something of a mission [ … ]
The UAE is to host the fourth GCC Visual Arts Forum in Abu Dhabi this December. The aim: “to promote the creativity of GCC artists in line with the GCC Cultural Strategy 2020-2030”. The GCC Cultural Strategy is a broad-brush [ … ]
In October the UAE happens to be playing host to some blue-sky thinking – in the capital a stellar line-up of speakers at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi muses about the future of culture, in Dubai the reportedly very successful Dubai [ … ]
Art centres have many roles, but to magpie’s way of thinking there are two that are key to their function – one conceptual, one practical. The first: to introduce its audience to art (and by that we mean ‘artistic and [ … ]
TikTok MENA has launched a TikTok Creator Hub in the UAE and Egypt, “unlocking exciting opportunities for new talents to add their voice to the region’s burgeoning creative economy and contribute to a global cause”. The Creator Hub is actually [ … ]
Sharjah Film Platform is back, spotlighting independent cinema, documentary filmmaking and moving image works that play on new approaches to film and art. The fifth edition of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual film festival isn’t overcrowded; small but perfectly formed just [ … ]
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