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 [ … ]
An Arts Centre owes as much to the people it involves as the projects it runs. Last week we looked at the work Art Jameel’s exhibitions curator, Rahul Gudipudi. To set against that, we’re considering one of the more unusual [ … ]
Any arts centre is more than a sum of its parts. It’s an alchemical combination of the physical space, its direction, its strategies and aims, its embeddedness, its programmes – and its people. And to a large extent it’s the [ … ]
Right from the start, the programming at The Arts Center NYUAD has been exactly what you’d want from an arts centre – varied to the point of covering most artistic bases, often testing the boundaries and inviting audiences to question [ … ]
It’s obviously been a turbulent year in live entertainment, especially for an organisation like The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi that normally runs a busy schedule of performances, workshops and events. Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director of The Arts [ … ]
“I walked into Kaki King’s final performance at NYUAD Art Center believing I knew exactly what I had signed on for,” said magpie’s reviewer at the last of the three performances of Data Not Found at The Arts Center at [ … ]
The businessman and cultural patron behind the Alserkal Avenue development, Abdelmonem Bin Eisa Alserkal, has added an arts foundation to his portfolio. This is a logical development of Alserkal Avenue’s existing non-commercial activities, providing a degree of separation (and clarity) [ … ]
The Qasr Al Hosn cultural centre reopens on 7 December in Abu Dhabi as a museum commemorating the history of the structure and city’s development around it. The much-anticipated opening comes with a week of performances and demonstrations, the start [ … ]
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