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SUMMARY:Children's Biennial
DESCRIPTION: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\, sound\, movement and light. \nFeaturing works and workshops by UAE-based artists and an international collaboration with National Gallery Singapore\, the Biennale – curated by Dana Almazrouei – will offer family sessions\, workshops and an interactive guide Nine participating artists are Alia AlShamsi\, Aya Afaneh\, Hana El-Sagini\, Moza Almatrooshi\, Moza Almazrouei\, Meera Almazrooei\, Nada Almosa and Sarah Afaneh\, plus Indonesian artist Eko Nugroho; says the blurb\, “they will transform Umm Al Emarat Park into a space where audiences of all ages can encounter art through touch\, sound\, movement and light … Through open-ended experiences\, children are invited to experiment\, question\, collaborate\, imagine and create their own meanings”. \nSays Dana Almazrouei: “We wanted to ask the kind of questions adults often stop asking: what stories lie beneath the soil? How does sound travel through a park? Working with each artist\, we thought first about how a child would experience the piece\, and what they might carry with them afterwards … Play is how children come to understand the world. As historian Johan Huizinga observed\, play creates temporary worlds shaped by shared rules and imagination\, and that’s what we hope this park becomes. It isn’t just a way to make art accessible; it’s how children think\, discover and build their own stories\, together.”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/childrens-biennial/
LOCATION:Umm Al Emarat Park\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Family/kids
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261114
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261120
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SUMMARY:Sharjah Architecture Triennial: opening week
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCurated by Vyjayanthi Rao\, with Tau Tavengwa as Associate Curator\, SAT03 brings together 35 participants working across architecture\, art\, design\, urbanism\, research and other fields. Together\, they explore how architecture can contribute to collective life and respond to the rapidly changing conditions of our world. \nThe opening week programme (14-19 November) is the busiest\, of course\, with a range of panel discussions\, workshops\, screenings\, tours and other public activations across Sharjah – full details here. It is free and open to the public. Register your attendance here.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sharjah-architecture-triennial-opening-week/
LOCATION:[various Sharjah locations]
CATEGORIES:Architecture,Urbanism
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
DTSTAMP:20261105T101811Z
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SUMMARY:Sliman Mansour: Promises and Scars
DESCRIPTION: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 Fann à Porter\, which is organising it. \nThe works in this exhibition demonstrate how Mansour experimented with forms and materiality with an open eye to their politics. Mansour’s idealised landscapes and figures are celebrated for introducing a people to itself – images that promise a progressive anti-colonial romance with a guaranteed happy ending\, in which an oppressed people march confidently towards a destined freedom. \nMansour died in August. “This exhibition was originally planned to open in April in his presence; it now opens in his bitter absence.” \nImage: Sliman Mansour\, AlQuds – Metal (2003)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/sliman-mansour-promises-and-scars/
LOCATION:Warehouse 46\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
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SUMMARY:History Otherwise: Women Modernists from the Arab World
DESCRIPTION: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 1990s\, highlighting the often-overlooked presence and influence of women artists in the region. \nThe works move across painting\, sculpture\, textiles and other media\, and the exhibition has four interconnected sections. ‘Introspecting’ examines portraiture as a way of seeing individuals and the relationships around them. ‘Documenting’ considers artistic responses to social life and political change. ‘Abstracting’ turns to experiments in form and visual language. And ‘Crafting’ places material knowledge and methods of making within the development of modern art. \nThe exhibition forms a central part of Alserkal Art Week (15 to 22 November) alongside gallery exhibitions\, guest projects and cultural programmes across the Avenue. \nImage: Meriem Meziane\, Women’s Orchestra from Rif (1969)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/history-otherwise-women-modernists-from-the-arab-world/
LOCATION:Concrete\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
DTSTAMP:20261103T173642Z
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SUMMARY:NOMAD Abu Dhabi
DESCRIPTION:The fair for upmarket collectible design\, contemporary art\, jewellery and crafts returns to the iconic decommissioned Terminal 1 of the old Abu Dhabi Airport with more than 50 exhibitors and a much expanded programme. \n“This year\, we have a better understanding of this remarkable building so we can be more ambitious with it” says NOMAD’s co-founder and director Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte. As well as the commercial offerings\, there’s an expanded institutional programme for nonprofit initiatives\, cultural projects and institutions from the UAE and beyond – among them including Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council\, Design Commission Abu Dhabi (DCAD)\, and House of Artisans in collaboration with the Institut du Monde Arabe. There’s also a programme of talks and workshops presented by BGRE (formerly Brookfield Properties). \nThe fair will be open 19-22 November (plus 18 November for a VIP invitation-only preview) at 1pm to 9pm (8pm on the last day).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/nomad-abu-dhabi-2/
LOCATION:Terminal 1\, Old Abu Dhabi Airport\, Al Diyafah Street\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261123
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SUMMARY:Frieze Abu Dhabi
DESCRIPTION:Building on nearly two decades of Abu Dhabi Art\, the inaugural edition of Frieze Abu Dhabi marks a new chapter for the region’s international art scene. The aim is to connect Abu Dhabi and local arts ecosystem with Frieze’s global network of galleries\, artists and collectors; the more immediate concern will of course be the incipient conflict in the Gulf\, but at time of writing the fair is going ahead with much optimism and enthusiasm. \nSo what’s changed from the last Abu Dhabi Art in November 2025? Some obvious elements are retained – the fair’s location\, the involvement of DCT Abu Dhabi\, the presence of Dyala Nusseibeh as fair director. But there are also some significant points of difference\, quite apart from the scale of the fair itself (Abu Dhabi Art’s final edition had more than 140 galleries\, Frieze has 80 or so). \nFrieze describes the exhibitors for its first Abu Dhabi edition as a “tightly selected group” who have been given with larger stands and a more generous layout intended to encourage “sustained engagement”. \nThere’s a solid base of top UAE galleries – Carbon 12\, Lawrie Shabibi\, The Third Line\, Tabari Artspace\, Iris Projects\, Gallery Isabelle\, Green Art Gallery among others – with some of the big names from Saudi Arabia (Athr\, Hafez) and Lebanon (Saleh Barakat\, Mark Hachem\, Galerie Tanit). \nFrieze’s international reach is presumably responsible for the strong showing from London – among them Thaddaeus Ropac\, Richard Saltoun\, Timothy Taylor\, Victoria Miro\, Vigo Gallery\, Voena and Waddington Custot – alongside a smattering of European galleries. There’s also some blue-chip New York names: Gagosian\, Pace\, Vito Schnabel and Leila Heller (the only one of that cohort to have a UAE outpost). \nThe other commercial section is Focus\, a long-standing Frieze feature for younger international galleries showing experimental solo or dual presentations. Frieze Abu Dhabi is offering bursaries for each gallery in this section to encourage them to show locally. For 2026 it’s a modest group of just six galleries . \nThe fair will also have two curated sections. Frieze Masters Abu Dhabi is curated by Marika Sardar\, an art historian and curator whose expertise focuses on the historical networks of the Indian Ocean. That shapes the content of Frieze Masters Abu Dhabi\, which we’re told will present “exceptional objects and artefacts from West Asia and beyond\, spanning Antiquity through to the early 20th century … shaped around the theme of the Indian Ocean\, encompassing the historic movement of objects\, people and ideas through trade\, collecting and cultural exchange”. \nAnd the more contemporary equivalent is Global Futures\, a series of gallery presentations for solo artists whose practices engage with histories and ideas that resonate across the UAE and the wider region – “bringing together artists from distinct cultural contexts\, the section will trace connections across place\, material and lived experience\, situating their work within the broader regional and international dialogues that Frieze Abu Dhabi seeks to foster”. \nThe scale of the curated element is rather different to Abu Dhabi Art’s last programme. The predecessor fair seemed to feel it had a remit to promote and document the local art scene: so we had the Pavilion Prize for student designers\, the Beyond commissions for new works by emergent UAE-based artists (which in the past had travelled internationally after the fair)\, the guest-curated Gateway programme of installations\, a performance programme\, and site-specific projects around Abu Dhabi and Al Ain. \nAnd Abu Dhabi Art had no door charge; previous versions did have an entrance charge but last year was free with online registration\, whereas Frieze Abu Dhabi will be charging a very specific AED 57.75 per day for general admission (AED 236.25 for a three-day pass). \nThe overall impression is that Abu Dhabi Art had wider aspirations and probably less measurable KPIs. Frieze Abu Dhabi is more specific in its goals\, a commercial art fair that seeks to contribute to Abu Dhabi’s soft-power positioning as a high-end cultural destination. In short\, Frieze Abu Dhabi seems to be going for less volume and more quality: certainly the curated programming sets a high bar. \nThe inaugural Frieze Abu Dhabi Artist Award is curated by Nabila Abdel Nabi\, Senior Curator for International Art at Tate and head of the Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational\, who selected the Lebanese (London-based) artist Dala Nasser as its recipient. \nThe award will support a new commission\, Nasser’s ambitious site-responsive work Qubbat Duris; this takes its name from a 13th-century monument in the Bekaa Valley\, a structure which reflects the transcultural history of the region. Nasser’s installation offers a reflection on the ways materials carry memory over generations\, and on a collective responsibility towards landscapes facing destruction. \nIn Dialogue is a new annual flagship exhibition. Dirwaza Curatorial Lab has titled this one ‘At Another Meeting Point’ and paired works by Mohammed Kazem and Alia Zaal\, “opening up new perspectives and unexpected points of connection across generations”. This sounds promising. \nFrieze Sculpture Abu Dhabi is a nod to the London-based parent\, with works from Zeinab Alhashemi\, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim\, Imran Qureshi\, and Kamran Samimi. \nTimings: \n19 November (Invitation only) 2pm – 9pm\n20 November 2pm – 9pm\n21 November 2pm – 9pm\n22 November 2pm – 9pm \nEntry to the fair is date- and time-specific\, with no re-entry for one-day general admission tickets. \nImage: Mohammed Joha\, No Shelter 01 (2026). Courtesy of Zawyeh Gallery and the Artist; showing in the Global Futures section \n  \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/frieze-abu-dhabi/
LOCATION:Manarat al Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261119
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SUMMARY:World Art Dubai
DESCRIPTION:The region’s premier affordable art fair is back\, with all its stalls having sold out and the promise of more than 10\,000 artworks from 300+ artists and galleries to see (the exhibitor list is here). There’s a busy programme of presentations\, talks\, workshops\, live painting and performances across all four days\, too – details here. \nWAD is open daily from 1pm to 9pm. The AED 30 price shown here is for a standard one day pass; there are student deals (AED 20) and family rates (AED 70 for a group of three\, AED 80 for four).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/world-art-dubai/
LOCATION:Dubai World Trade Centre\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art/design fair
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SUMMARY:The Comedy Lab
DESCRIPTION:Mad Cat Comedy’s regular Thursday stop in Silicon Oasis promises “insane laughs every week”.  The door price of AED 99 includes one drink and popcorn.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-comedy-lab-25/
LOCATION:Radisson Red\, Dubai Digital Park\, Dubai Silicon Oasis\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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SUMMARY:Cocktails and Comedy
DESCRIPTION:“Dubai’s hottest comedy night” (aka the Mad Cat team) come to the moodily-lit speakeasy style bar in DIFC for a regular Thursday gig. The door price includes one drink.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/cocktails-and-comedy-4/
LOCATION:Bondz\, Unit 156 Level POD\, Emirates Financial Tower\, DIFC\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Comedy
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