September 2025

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magpie Weekly issue 7.02 / 25 Sep 2025

25 September 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: The cause of death is birth David Hockney A smile for Gaza Just when you think it couldn’t be worse, a group of 9-11 year old children in Gaza made a funny animated film about [ … ]

Abu Dhabi Art as the region’s largest art fair?

22 September 2025

This year’s Abu Dhabi Art, scheduled for 19 to 23 November, has more than 140 galleries from 37 countries for its 17th edition. Last year the total was 104, and that itself was the largest number to date. The press [ … ]

magpie Weekly issue 7.01 / 18 Sep 2025

18 September 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: World is crazier and more of it than we think / Incorrigibly plural Louis MacNiece And, just like that, summer’s over and magpie Weekly is back – ready, willing, nay eager to keep [ … ]

Eleven years and counting: so what’s new with The Arts Center?

17 September 2025

It’s become something of a magpie tradition to interview Bill Bragin at the start of a new season for The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi. In part that’s because he’s chatty and any interviewer likes an interview to flow, [ … ]

Tasting a new art form? Find Your Eyes at The Arts Center

15 September 2025

With Find Your Eyes, Benji Reid (right) has made a performance that is unlike any you will have seen. Other artists have approached the creative process itself as performance; but no one else has combined photography, choreography and theatre to [ … ]