The next Sharjah Biennial – SB14, running 7 March to 10 June 2019 – will show just short of 90 artists from around the globe and more than 60 new commissions. There’s a very contemporary curatorial theme: Leaving the Echo [ … ]
Myrna Ayad is stepping down from her role as director of Art Dubai after just two years in the job. No replacement has been named, which is quite surprising – you might have expected that a seamless transition would have [ … ]
Most art fairs are commercial operations that judge themselves on an international stage: they see their competitors as other art fairs. Abu Dhabi Art – and to a lesser extent Art Dubai – is rather different. It’s run by Abu [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the initial selection of participating artists for Sharjah Biennial 14, opening in March 2019. SB14 has the subtitle Leaving the Echo Chamber. It will feature three distinct exhibitions by the three curators Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif [ … ]
The organisers of Abu Dhabi Art chose 23 March to announce that Monira Al Qadiri “has been commissioned to provide works for the visual campaign of Abu Dhabi Art 2018”. Surely this couldn’t have been timed to compete for the [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Art Dubai’s success in the face of the sheer number of competitors it now has in the art fair business prompted us to put some pre-fair questions to Myrna Ayad. Her appointment as Director of Art Dubai was announced just [ … ]
Dubai Culture says it received a record number of applications for the eight SIKKA Art Fair 2018, to be held in Al Fahidi during Art Week (17-26 March). It’s in the process of assessing more than 200 submissions. SIKKA has [ … ]
We couldn’t possibly regard the announcement of Art Dubai’s 2018 gallery line-up as a spoiler, even though it was announced just a few days before Abu Dhabi Art opened. After all, the roster of 103 galleries from 47 countries does [ … ]
Dubai Culture is inviting applications for the 8th edition of the SIKKA Art Fair, to be held 21–24 March 2018 in Al Fahidi Historical Neighbourhood as part of Art Week. This is a real opportunity for emerging artists, craftspeople and collectives [ … ]
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