The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has announced its tenth season, featuring more than 30 artists and a total of 55 performances. It’s the kind of eclectic and genuinely impressive mix that we’ve come to expect from Bill Bragin [ … ]
The Arts Center at NYUAD has introduced an annual membership programme, which gives advance booking and discount deals on a year’s performances. Given the quality of the Arts Center’s programming and the inevitably frequent sellouts, this looks like a pretty [ … ]
What’s an arts centre for? Arguably there are three key functions: to deliver artistic work that its audience might not otherwise experience, to test the boundaries of the art form by fostering new thinking, and to promote excellence – maybe [ … ]
So what were you doing seven years ago? Bill Bragin was opening the pilot season of his arts centre at NYU Abu Dhabi. It probably was the only multi-disciplinary arts and performance space in the country at the time, and [ … ]
It’s become something of an end-of-summer tradition that magpie interviews Bill Bragin, Executive Director of The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi. As a significant player in the UAE’s art scene, he usually has pertinent observations and insights. But the [ … ]
Abu Dhabi’s Warehouse421 has a new name (farewell Warehouse421, hello 421) and a new brand identity. Originally it aimed to provide “a dynamic space that could be home to exhibitions and events that our community sorely needed at the time”; [ … ]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has always aimed to build an audience for contemporary dance in the UAE – “giving exposure to world class companies, providing training for local artists, and opening the doors for larger conversations through [ … ]
The eighth season of performances, talks, and workshops at The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi continues the mix much as before, and that’s no bad thing – an eclectic selection of music, dance and theatre, the kind of thing [ … ]
One of the Jameel’s clever ideas has been to find a group of bright young artists, creators and other arts activists and hand over the arts centre’s programming to them for a while. This project – the Youth Takeover – [ … ]
Tashkeel has selected its largest cohorts yet for its two key professional development programmes. For the the sixth iteration of its Critical Practice Programme, for early-career visual artists in the UAE, it received 75 applications. Six artists have been selected [ … ]
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