July 2026 – magpie

SAT03: redefining architecture?

29 July 2026

The theme and participants for the third Sharjah Architectural Triennial (14 November 2026 to 14 April 2027) have been published, and they both look a meaty counterpoint to the more usual design/technology-led architectural get-together. That theme for SAT03 is ‘Architecture [… more]

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi gets its opening date: 11 December 2026

28 July 2026

It may have taken 20 years, but at last we have a firm opening date for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. On 11 December it joins New York, Venice and Bilbao in the Guggenheim Foundation’s desire to bring post-1960s art to the [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.38 / 16 July 2026

16 July 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer | Clement Freud … More books for Sharjah Pushing ahead with its image-building in [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.37 / 9 July 2026

9 July 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Art galleries should hang terrible paintings from the same period as their masterpieces so that visitors can realise quite how amazing the good paintings are | James Marriott … Dubai’s cultural sector [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.36 / 2 July 2026

2 July 2026

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Theatre is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place | Martha Graham … Gone, won’t be forgotten “It’s a big day today, as I close [… more]