This week’s editorial musings
from magpie’s nest
The quote: I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, what I want and what I fear Joan Didion …
Art Dubai intro info Design Miami (“the global forum for collectible design”) opened a couple of days ago, and at the fair’s launch came the news that early 2027 will see the launch of “a new regional platform for collectible design” in Dubai. It’s a partnership between Design Miami and Alserkal, and will be based around a flagship design fair plus year-round programming.
The press release isn’t very specific but talks about creating “a platform for a global exchange of ideas and “establishing Dubai as an international destination for collectible design”. Design Miami has been putting high-end galleries and designers in front of collectors for two decades in Miami and latterly in Paris too; the aim is to add Dubai as a third hub, presumably to show local design to a wider audience while bringing those buyers to the UAE.
According to Alserkal, design-related activity already accounts for 52% of the city’s cultural GDP.Alserkal’s Vilma Jurkute called the deal with Design Miami “a natural trajectory” for Alserkal and described design as “the next chapter in [Alserkal’s] growth”.
It’s interesting that Art Dubai Group, which runs Dubai Design Week, last year introduced a Design-Miami-like extra in the form of the Editionselement for collectable design. Art Dubai isn’t involved in the partnership.
There aren’t any other details, and certainly not location. Dubai is a bit short of design-fair-sized spaces once d3 is ruled out, and Art Dubai seems to have that sewn up …
Affordable Dubai Can you afford Dubai? This calculator site is designed to help people thinking of moving to Dubai decide whether the package they are being offered is worth it.
If you decide you need to get out of town, NewLife might help – it’s free tool that helps you decide where to relocate by comparing the cost of living, quality of life and cultural fit between any two places in the world …
Slopping out Everyone hates the flood of AI slop in search results. Tega Brain, Australian artist/environmental engineer/Asst Prof of Integrated Digital Media at NYU, did something about it: Slop Evader is a search extension for Chrome and Firefox (works with Google, YouTube, Reddit and more) that will only return results created before Nov 2022 – ChatGPT’s first public release. So no AI-generated results …
Tonight’s the night There’s still time to get along to the Laughter Factory’s Christmas Party(first of three); or the UAE Youth Orchestra and Choir at Abu Dhabi’s Cultural Foundation for an End of Season Celebration …
Useful app of the week Director is like the Lovable vibe coder but for web automation workflows: use a prompt to automate almost any task on the web. Takes a while to see what it can and can’t do, but it’s worth perservering …
Something for the weekend Clues By Sam invites you to figure out who is a wrong ‘un and who is innocent. You can’t convict someone based on a 50/50 hunch – there is always a logical next choice, even when you think there isn’t. Try it here …
Things we didn’t know no.94 One of the first ever Velvet Underground gigs was entertaining the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry …
Earworm of the week African Head Charge : Microdosing
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