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Bluewaters Art Festival

Bluewaters Dubai

The inaugural Bluewaters Art Festival runs 4pm to midnight from 12 to 20 April, featuring a theme ("Re:Connect") and "designed to transform the island into a vibrant open-air gallery". Expect murals,  installations, large-scale inflatable art, outdoor sculptures, and indoor exhibits [ ... ]

Free

Asunción Molinos Gordo: The Peasant, the Scholar and the Engineer

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

Asunción Molinos Gordo’s second major collaboration with Art Jameel – following her 2019 Artist’s Garden, In Transit (Botany of a Journey) – is her first retrospective exhibition in West Asia. This show spans 15 years of Molinos Gordo’s work, tracing [ ... ]

Free

Calder / Hiquily: Balancing Act

Opera Gallery DIFC, Dubai

A clever juxtaposition of works by two masters of the poetry of balance and movement that reveals unexpected harmonies between the artistic languages of Alexander Calder and Philippe Hiquily. Calder’s gouaches on paper, with their bold colours and rhythmic compositions, [ ... ]

Free

Kojo Marfo: HOME Heart Of My Existence

JD Malat Gallery ACT 2 Tower, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A ,Downtown Dubai, Dubai

The inaugural exhibition in the Emirates for the Ghanaian artist explores the concept of ‘home’ through the lens of Afro-Surrealism. This series marks an introspective shift in his practice, reflecting his evolving sense of place in the world; HOME: Heart [ ... ]

Free
Ongoing

Candlelight: From Mozart to Chopin

Jumeirah Al Qasr Madinat Jumeirah, Umm Suqeim, Dubai

Aldo Dotti plays a 65 minute programme of piano favourites, outdoors at the Jumeriah Al Qasr's Céleste poolside restuarant. The programme: Mozart: Rondo alla Turca from Piano Sonata No. 11 in A Major, K 331 Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 [ ... ]

From AED 180

Diamanti: dir Ferzan Özpetek (2024)

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

A dazzling film set in n 1970s Rome in a dressmaking atelier for film and theatre. The atelier is directed by two very different sisters, one determined and slightly despotic, the other more fragile and tormented. An important order comes [ ... ]

Free, but pre-register

Katia and Marielle Labèque

The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

We’re promised “an original and innovative musical programme” from the Labèque sisters, and they never disappoint. Noted for their impeccable synchronicity, electrifying energy, and deftness of interpretation, the sisters “have transformed the piano duo” (New York Times) and “their musical [ ... ]

AED 175