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SUMMARY:Abstractions: A Journey Between Islamic and Contemporary Art
DESCRIPTION:Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is preparing the local audience for its 11 December opening with a series of events “for the public to engage with artists\, ideas and conversations that are shaping the new museum”. The mini-package closes with artist Rachid Koraïchi and curator Abdelkader Damani discussing abstraction as “a shared artistic language across cultures and time … Through reflections on calligraphy\, geometry and contemporary artistic practice\, the programme will offer audiences fresh perspectives on the connection between Islamic heritage and contemporary art\, revealing the connections and exchanges that continue to shape artistic expression today”. Preregister here. \nWarning: the PR bumf gave Louvre Abu Dhabi as the location (which makes sense) but the registration form says Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque (which doesn’t). Good luck …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/abstractions-a-journey-between-islamic-and-contemporary-art/
LOCATION:Louvre Abu Dhabi\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Conversation
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Mohamed Monaiseer: 85 Seconds To Midnight
DESCRIPTION:Monaiseer’s solo show examines history through cycles\, repetition and flows\, while testing the unstable boundary between imagination and reality. The title references the current status of the Doomsday Clock and its measurement of humanity’s proximity to catastrophe; notions of war\, occupation and imperial power have long animated his practice\, and here he considers how they recur across contexts and generations\, altering borders\, enemies and technologies while preserving familiar structures of domination. \nThe exhibition comprises drawings\, paintings\, sculptures and textile works\, as well as a video installation. Recurring motifs in these works are absorbed from literary fiction\, popular storytelling and contemporary media. And dark humour runs through them; for Monaiseer it is a means of examining the performance of power and the fantasies through which conflict can be romanticised\, rehearsed and projected. \nElsewhere\, pixelated figures and fragmented grids evoke the digital mediation of contemporary warfare and our era of misinformation\, in which information is increasingly manipulated and corrupted online. Monaiseer has previously engaged with the historical construction of conflict; in these works he considers how conflict reaches us through technology\, through compressed images\, screens\, news feeds and endlessly circulating footage\, producing realities that are experienced at a distance and often manipulated.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-mohamed-monaiseer-85-seconds-to-midnight/
LOCATION:Tabari Artspace\, Gate Village Level 2\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Youness Atbane: Untitled 14km
DESCRIPTION:The UAE premiere of a multidisciplinary work by the Moroccan artist Youness Atbane that combines dance theatre\, performance\, and installation in a satirical examination of how contemporary art engages with questions of identity – particularly what is framed as “Arab identity”. \nAtbane constructs an imagined exhibition at the fictional Museum of North Africa\, Middle East Contemporary Art. Within this setting\, an Arab-Andalusian poet\, a museum director\, a curator\, and a contemporary artist attempt to conceive an exhibition that re-examines modernism through two parallel lenses: the poetic legacy of the Arab-Andalusian era and the work of established contemporary Arab artists. \nTheir exchanges reveal the negotiations\, frictions\, and power dynamics involved in translating historical narratives into contemporary artistic frameworks. Through this constructed situation\, Untitled 14km questions legitimacy\, authority\, and representation within the global art system\, considering how identity is shaped through discourse\, competition\, and institutional validation\, contributing to a sharply witty examination of Orientalism in the arts. \nThere’s a second performance tomorrow (2 October).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/youness-atbane-untitled-14km/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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SUMMARY:An Evening of Mohamed Abdelwahab
DESCRIPTION:Mohamed Abdelwahab was one of the voices who helped shape the musical heritage of the Arab world\, a pioneering composer who blended traditional Arabic melodies with Western influences and so helped to redefine the sound of Arabic music today. This UAENO concert invites audiences to rediscover a musical legacy that continues to resonate\, bringing familiar works to life in a new symphonic setting.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/an-evening-of-mohammed-abdel-wahab/
LOCATION:Cultural Foundation\, Qasr al Hosn\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Concert
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Dubai:20261001T203000
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SUMMARY:You Think You Can Joke?
DESCRIPTION:A standup open mic where fresh and regular comics take the stage; newbies are getting three minutes\, the more established comics get six. There’s a minimum spend of AED 70.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/you-think-you-can-joke/
LOCATION:Champions Sports Bar\, Four Points By Sheraton\, Dubai Production City\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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