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 [ … ]
Art Jameel has announced an impressive opening season for Hayy Jameel, the Jeddah companion to Dubai’s Jameel Art Centre, which opens to the public on 6 December. It’s a packed schedule – December inaugurates Hayy Arts and a bevy of [ … ]
What’s an arts centre for? Well, there’s always a need to introduce the audience to new experiences and to show them connections that they might have missed, and maybe that testing of boundaries is a key role for them. And [ … ]
Bill Bragin drinks his coffee from a mug with an elegantly calligraphed design. On one side it reads ‘definitely’, on the other ‘inshAllah’. He commissioned it for himself last year, and he says that “definitely, inshAllah” is currently his favourite [ … ]
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