Calendar
Upcoming: May 2024
A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie for the month of May. All the events we know about, all round the world. Click on the event name and its website will open in a new [ … ]
Month: April 2024
Art history
Deep roots: mining the past to reveal contemporary Arab art
The story of Arab modern and contemporary art is vibrant and diverse, a rich brew of cultural traditions and myriad experiences of modernity. But that’s to be expected, says Salwa Mikdadi, Professor of Practice of Art History at NYU Abu [ … ]
Dance
What’s in the box?
Tonight (18 April) Abu Dhabi sees the world premiere of PETTEE: storybox, a groundbreaking performance that blurs the lines between stage and audience, dance and theatre. Written and directed by Deepak Unnikrishnan and Karthika Naïr, the piece was commissioned by [ … ]
Biennial
Advance notices for Sharjah Biennial 16
An initial artist list and a curatorial framework have been announced for next year’s Sharjah Biennial 16, which runs 6 February to 15 June 2025. The curatorial framework isn’t too specific – there’s no overarching title for SB16, for instance. [ … ]
Art market
What’s hot in the art auction rooms
Art market analyses are always interesting – sometimes for the specifics, more usually for the trends. The specifics can easily be skewed by one-off events; the sales success of a particular artist in a particular year could be down to [ … ]
Calendar
Upcoming: April 2024
A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie for the month of April. Click on the event name and its website will open in a new tab. You can look for specific events from the search [ … ]
Institutions
Doing business with Hong Kong
During Art Basel Hong Kong (which ran 28-30 March), the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority – the body that oversees multiple HK museums, including the spectacular M+ museum – announced that it had signed 20 memoranda of understanding with 21 [ … ]
Museums
1.2m visitors for Louvre Abu Dhabi: doing well, will do better
In 2023, Louvre Abu Dhabi recorded a total 1,247,076 visitors. And in the middle of last month, it passed the five million mark for the just over five years since it opened in November 2017; the museum hasn’t made a [ … ]