Sharjah Art Foundation announced Aziz Hazara, Pallavi Paul and Pratchaya Phinthong as winners of the Sharjah Biennial Prize during the opening gala dinner of the Biennial’s 16th edition last week (no, we weren’t invited, since you asked). The winners were selected by architect/curator Paula Nascimento, co-curator [ … ]
The Richard Mille Art Prize 2024 – an award and $60,000 – has gone to the Tunisian artist Nicène Kossentini for her video work Landscapes, shown at Louvre Abu Dhabi along with the four other artists shortlisted for the Art [ … ]
One of the key roles of an art gallery associated with a major educational institution is to document the regional artistic landscape. The Art Gallery at NYUAD has been doing this rather well since its inception ten years ago – [ … ]
“What is a university gallery?” asks Maya Allison, Chief Curator and founder of the NYUAD Art Gallery, in one of the essays in The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery 2014-2020, a book with a commendably explicit title that explains the [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2024, now in its fourth edition, has rapidly become a significant entry in the Middle East’s art exhibition calendar – a regional competition for 3D work that benefits from sponsorship by luxe watchmaker Richard Mille [ … ]
Most art exhibitions are by their nature static; the curator decides a theme, the artist(s) create work or supply existing pieces that fit the theme, they’re placed in an exhibition space, we go to see them there. The dynamic elements [ … ]
Seven projects have been shortlisted for the Jameel Prize (which, serendipitously enough, is in its seventh edition). The Prize is the V&A’s international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition, a triennial competition worth £25,000 to the [ … ]
For its 2024-25 season, Louvre Abu Dhabi has again come up some very solid announcements – the kind of exhibitions that will help to burnish its reputation, underpin its ethos, and make the most of the relationships it has with [ … ]
Art Jameel’s new Collection Care Fellowship is one of those moves that don’t usually grab the headlines but which probably deserves to. It’s all about practical aspects of museum and public art gallery work including conservation, archives and digitalisation, documentation, [ … ]
NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery celebrates its ten-year anniversary (is it ten years already??) with a characteristically interesting exhibition, albeit one that’s a touch more experimental than usual. In Real Time (22 February to 9 June) is a literally dynamic [ … ]
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