It seems the UAE likes to read. The LiFest organiser Emirates Literature Foundation and its PR agency Four Communications have published an analysis of online and social media data referencing books and reading – and in the UAE there was […]
The art market last year confirmed a strong recovery from the pandemic, with a return to live sales with steady growth in online business. Aggregate sales of art and antiques by dealers and auction houses reached an estimated $65.1 billion […]
What would you expect from a report produced by Dubai Future Foundation in collaboration with Dubai Culture? It could well be something with the title Future Trends: Culture and the Creative Sector. And it might well be a report that […]
Dubai Culture has announced the implementation of the first phase of a large redevelopment plan for Al Quoz that formalises the Alserkal Avenue area as the centre of a new creative free zone “to attract both regional and international audiences […]
The fallout over the Abraaj Group’s financial troubles continues, and there does seem to be some impact on Dubai’s art scene – though possibly not quite as much as The Art Newspaper thinks. It carried a story last week headlined […]
The week before Art Dubai opened, Art Basel and UBS launched the second edition of the Global Art Market Report. This is widely regarded as the most thorough and most accurate analysis of the art market, since it’s written by […]
The theme of the exhibition in the UAE Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Biennale has been announced, and it’s an interesting one: Lifescapes Beyond Bigness, “an exhibition exploring human-scale architectural landscapes”. The irony is inescapable, given that bigness is so […]
We’ve followed the progress of Fathima Mohiuddin for some time, initially because she had one of the most distinctive styles on Dubai’s urban art scene. She’s also articulate about her art and imaginative about its application; this piece, written for her […]
What is the state of the market for art in the UAE? In the run up to Abu Dhabi Art this November and Art Dubai next Spring, magpie decided to poll a few of the more seasoned observers and/or participants […]
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