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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270104
DTSTAMP:20261002T161242Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY All Manner of Experiments: Legacies of the Baghdad Modern Art Group
DESCRIPTION:Curated by Nada Shabout of NYUAD’s al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art\, this exhibition investigates and celebrates the work and influence of one of the most important art movement of the mid-Century Middle East. Dr Shabout brings together work by the artists from the Baghdad Modern Art Group\, as well as those who the group influenced both at the time and in later generations. \nEstablished in 1951 by two of Iraq’s most influential artists\, Jewad Selim (1919–1961) and Shakir Hassan Al Said (1925–2004)\, the Baghdad Modern Art Group grew to engage many of Iraq’s leading artists\, architects\, poets\, and more; together\, they sought to develop a new art form that reflected the secularised\, modern society emerging from the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire. Says the gallery: “Artists questioned the ability of traditional ‘Islamic art’ practices to present their contemporary realities\, searching for a more effective visual language. In this context\, modern art provided a conduit for exploration and was perceived by Iraqi artists as a global space of shared humanity …” \nAt the same time\, those artists were conscious of their role in developing a sense of identity for their newly formed nation\, alongside broader decolonization processes. “This set the stage for Iraq’s so-called golden age of the 1950s: a time of maturation for a generation of artists pivotal in initiating rigorous standards of art theory and practice\, thus charting new possibilities for future generations.” \nArtists included in the show: Faraj Abbo\, Sadik Kwaish Alfraji\, Himat Mohammad Ali\, Rasoul Alwan\, Suad al-Attar\, Qahtan Awni\, Dia al-Azzawi\, Bogus Bablanian\, Amar Dawod\, Ghassan Ghaib\, Faiq (Faeq) Hassan\, Mohammed Ghani Hikmat\, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra\, Rand Abdul Jabbar\, Fouad Jihad\, Saadi Al Kaabi\, Ardash Kakafian\, Salma Khoury\, Hanaa Malallah\, Mahmoud Obaidi\, Widad al-Orfali\, Khalid al-Rahal\, Kareem Risan\, Miran al-Saadi\, Mahmoud Sabri\, Naziha Salim\, Nizar (Nazar) Salim\, Shakir Hassan Al Said\, Delair Shaker\, Jewad Selim\, Lorna Selim\, Walid Siti\, Ismail Fattah (Al-Turk)\, Madiha Umar\, Khalil al-Ward\, Nazar Yahya.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/all-manner-of-experiments-legacies-of-the-baghdad-modern-art-group/
LOCATION:NYUAD Art Gallery\, Saadiyat\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270111
DTSTAMP:20260916T063510Z
CREATED:20260916T063510Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063510Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Juma Alhaj: Revelation
DESCRIPTION:The first institutional solo exhibition by Emirati artist Juma Alhaj is the culmination of his participation in 421 Arts Campus’ Artistic Development Program. Grounded in reading\, journaling\, and philosophical inquiry\, it explores themes of reflection\, solitude\, and self-discovery; the exhibition marks “a significant and ambitious evolution in his practice” according to the gallery\, expanding beyond painting into installation for the first time. \nVisitors experience it barefoot (the space is carpeted); throughout the exhibition\, Alhaj’s abstract inscriptions\, encompassing both writing and image\, extend across glass\, fabric\, light\, and architecture – “shifting with the environment and the movement of visitors through the exhibition”. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-juma-alhaj-revelation/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5224833;54.3877183
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270111
DTSTAMP:20260916T064019Z
CREATED:20260916T064019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T064019Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Archipelago of Whispers
DESCRIPTION:A group show curated by Deniz Kirkali and Elham Puriya Mehr that brings together works in video\, sound installations\, and performance that explore “alternative infrastructures for knowledge-making such as whispers\, murmurs\, hums\, gossip\, and storytelling”. \nThe artists include Aliaskar Abarkas\, Ruba Al-Sweel\, Farah Al Qasimi\, Gizem Karakaş\, Yen Chun Lin\, Omar Mismar and Ayman Zedani; they have approached communication from distinct perspectives\, from whispered confessions to an endangered whale song\, language games\, dreams\, and participatory performance. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-archipelago-of-whispers/
LOCATION:421 Arts Campus\, Mina Zayed\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5224833;54.3877183
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270111
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270112
DTSTAMP:20260913T144357Z
CREATED:20260913T144357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260913T144357Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Library Circles: Rend Beiruti
DESCRIPTION:Rend Beiruti’s research display\, sharing insights into her investigation of the baqala neighbourhood grocery store as a vital urban entity in Dubai\, exploring its history\, its influence on urban development\, and its role as a cultural signal. Through photographs\, mapping\, and archival documents\, the display brings together the findings of this urban investigation and considers the ubiquitous baqala as both an everyday space and a cultural signal.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-library-circles-rend-beiruti/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270116
DTSTAMP:20260928T110115Z
CREATED:20260928T105721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T110115Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY The Territory Dreams Back
DESCRIPTION:A group exhibition of newly commissioned and recent works by Rajni Perera\, Sancintya Mohini Simpson\, Soma Surovi Jannat\, Karan Shrestha and Rain Wu\, five artists who offer different perspectives on our relationship with place. \nSays the gallery: “The Territory Dreams Back moves between mythology and memory\, migration and ecology\, political power and the systems through which places are mapped and organised. At its heart is the idea that places are shaped by more than their physical geography. Land and water hold histories and memories; stories and beliefs influence how landscapes are understood; political decisions affect who can access and control land; and maps and infrastructure can change the environments they set out to describe …”
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-the-territory-dreams-back/
LOCATION:NIKA Project Space\, Unit 11 Al Khayat Avenue\, 19th Street Road — Al Quoz 1\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.1399294;55.2285748
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270118
DTSTAMP:20260918T111102Z
CREATED:20260918T111102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T111102Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY 100 Years of Paul Guiragossian
DESCRIPTION:A landmark retrospective for one of the key modernist painters to emerge from the Levant in the twentieth century. Alongside significant works drawn primarily from the artist’s estate\, many travelling outside Lebanon for the very first time\, the exhibition – the first significant retrospective for Guiragossian since 2013 – includes archival photographs\, personal documents\, and other rarely seen materials that provide an intimate portrait of the artist. \nStructured as a chronological journey\, the exhibition traces Guiragossian’s artistic evolution from his early years in an Armenian family shaped by displacement and migration\, including the 1948 relocation from Jaffa to Lebanon\, through to global recognition. It’s the keystone of From a Shared Ground\, an homage to Lebanon through three concurrent exhibitions that explore how artists across generations have drawn upon experiences of homeland\, displacement\, memory and belonging. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-100-years-of-paul-guiragossian/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270118
DTSTAMP:20260918T112036Z
CREATED:20260918T111944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260918T112036Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Roots Before Petals
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition that brings contemporary UAE-based artist Lana Khayat into dialogue with Lebanese modernists Etel Adnan and Helen Khal\, linking distinct practices across generations of Lebanese artists. Says the gallery: “Their work differs in scale and sensibility\, yet each built an abstract visual language from the natural motif and shared engagement with the memory of homeland”. \nThis is one of three concurrent BFAF exhibitions under the title From a Shared Ground\, an homage to Lebanon that explores how artists across generations have drawn upon experiences of homeland\, displacement\, memory and belonging. \n 
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-roots-before-petals/
LOCATION:Bassam Freiha Art Foundation\, Cultural District Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:24.5335392;54.4095952
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201
DTSTAMP:20260915T174535Z
CREATED:20260915T174535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T174535Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Lulua Alyahya
DESCRIPTION:Marking her first solo exhibition in the UAE\, Lulua Alyahya’s Artist’s Room brings together new commissions\, loans and works from the Art Jameel Collection. Through her paintings\, Alyahya explores culturally embedded archetypes with tenderness\, humour and a critical inflection\, often engaging with representations of masculinity set against the natural and built environments of the Gulf; working on an intimate scale\, her layered\, gestural brushstrokes suggest a process of continual revision that contributes to the atmosphere and surreal quality of her paintings.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-lulua-alyahya/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201
DTSTAMP:20260915T175508Z
CREATED:20260915T175508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T175508Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Shezad Dawood
DESCRIPTION:Dawood’s New Dream Machine Project centres on a 3m-high rotating and flickering light sculpture\, an homage to artist and writer Brion Gysin’s Dreamachine; driving the mechanism is a perforated cylinder emitting pulses of light at the frequency of the brain’s alpha waves\, said to induce altered states of consciousness. Originally commissioned for the Abraaj Group Art Prize in 2011 and first presented at Art Dubai that same year\, the work is part of the Art Jameel Collection and has rarely been exhibited since. \nHere the sculpture is presented alongside two smaller Recyclages prototypes and archival materials tracing the project’s history.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-shezad-dawood/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20270131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20270201
DTSTAMP:20260915T180239Z
CREATED:20260915T180239Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260915T180239Z
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SUMMARY:CLOSING TODAY Artist's Room: Walid Siti
DESCRIPTION:This Artist’s Room traces forty years of Walid Siti’s practice\, including new sculptural commissions and material from the artist’s studio. Across his body of work\, structural forms mirror geological formations\, rising summits\, Mesopotamian ziggurats\, and the Tower of Babel\, all alluding to a persistent\, often reckless\, human drive toward ascension. A newly commissioned large-scale sculpture\, Registry of the Lived\, reflects on the troubled history of Kurdistan\, displayed alongside the War Series\, an early ensemble of drawings and etchings from the 1980s made during Siti’s years of exile.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/closing-today-artists-room-walid-siti/
LOCATION:Jameel Arts Centre\, Al Jaddaf\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
GEO:25.216757;55.3309395
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