Upfest reckons to be the biggest street art festival in Europe. Hundreds of artists from around the world applied; only 300 (!) end up participating in the festival. This was our first time – and I was painting! I noticed [ … ]
CARBON 12 Alserkal Avenue Language is one of the things that distinguish humanity, and Carbon 12’s autumn show raises questions about communication that play with the idea of just what language is (or might be) and what it’s for. The [ … ]
The upcoming art season in the UAE is looking like a humdinger, and the Fall exhibition at the NYUAD Art Gallery on Saadiyat sets a high standard. It’s not quite a blockbuster, but it’s still pretty impressive. Under the title [ … ]
For its eighth edition, Abu Dhabi Art is introducing a new curated exhibition for contemporary art. Under the name Gateway (Branding Messages R Us) it will be integrated within the art fair to anchor each of its sections within what [ … ]
CARTOON ART GALLERY Al Quoz Benoît Paré has a broad CV that takes in graphics, stage design, murals and portraits. He’s also a teacher of art in Athens, the city where he finished his art education and subsequently settled. But [ … ]
The Abu Dhabi arts scene is gaining international traction, thanks to the big Saadiyat projects and government investment. What it lacks, however, is the infrastructure for individual artists – smaller community based galleries and accessible studios. The Zawiyah Studio & [ … ]
Hadeyeh Badri, Lantian Xie, and Raja’a Khalid have been named as the three designers selected to take part in the second edition of Tashkeel’s Critical Practice Programme. Tashkeel says there were “a large number of applications” in response to its [ … ]
LEILA HELLER GALLERY Alserkal Avenue The gifted Malian photographer Seydou Keïta is best known for the portraits he took between 1940 and the early 1960s, a time that saw him transition from being a carpenter and amateur photographer to a [ … ]
RETROactive, a Judy Rifka retrospective, is coming to Dubai – and it could be one of the highlights of the season. The Jean-Paul Najar Foundation will be showing brand new works created during a two-week residency in Dubai, plus works from [ … ]
GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE Alserkal Avenue Domestic Affairs is a real pleasure – a quiet, intimate, affectionate show based on the domesticity of everyday life exemplified by textiles, the human body, and those essential objects that make a home [ … ]
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