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Children’s Biennial

Umm Al Emarat Park Abu Dhabi

What a good idea this is: the Abu Dhabi Festival is running the first outdoor children’s art biennale in the Middle East Under the theme How the World Feels, the Biennale will explore how children experience the world through touch, [... more]

Standard park entry AED 10

Sharjah Architecture Triennial: opening week

[various Sharjah locations]

The third edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial runs 14 November to to 14 April under the theme Architecture Otherwise: Building Civic Infrastructure for Collective Futures. Curated by Vyjayanthi Rao, with Tau Tavengwa as Associate Curator, SAT03 brings together 35 [... more]

Free

Sliman Mansour: Promises and Scars

Warehouse 46 Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A mini-retrospective for Sliman Mansour during Alserkal Art Week 2026 covering five decades of his work – “the first time since 2011 that such an extensive body of the artist’s work has been brought together in a single exhibition”, says [... more]

Free

History Otherwise: Women Modernists from the Arab World

Concrete Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Curated by Suheyla Takesh and Rémi Homs, this exhibition features works from the Barjeel Art Foundation collection, including pieces by Inji Efflatoun, Samia Halaby and Mona Saudi; it also has some archival exhibition posters dating from the 1940s to the [... more]

The Territory Dreams Back

NIKA Project Space Unit 11 Al Khayat Avenue, 19th Street Road — Al Quoz 1, Dubai

An exhibition of newly commissioned and recent works by Rajni Perera, Sancintya Mohini Simpson, Soma Surovi Jannat, Karan Shrestha and Rain Wu – five artists whose work offers different perspectives on our relationship with place. The exhibition moves between mythology [... more]

The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger

Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu Dhabi

Mad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks …

AED 99