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A series of conversations about the use of AI in Hollywood started in 2023, informal but high-powered. They were organised by Susan Ruskin, dean of the American Film Institute, and top producer Kathleen Kennedy (whose CV includes dozens of major [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: It’s only words – unless they’re true | David Mamet … Frieze filling out Frieze Abu Dhabi (19-22 Nov at Manarat Al Saadiyat) will have two new curated sections – Frieze Masters Abu Dhabi, [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer; it just seems longer | Clement Freud … More books for Sharjah Pushing ahead with its image-building in [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Art galleries should hang terrible paintings from the same period as their masterpieces so that visitors can realise quite how amazing the good paintings are | James Marriott … Dubai’s cultural sector [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Theatre is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place | Martha Graham … Gone, won’t be forgotten “It’s a big day today, as I close [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information | Christopher Hitchens … Abu Dhabi dates The Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial 2026-27, titled [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you’re not playful you’re not alive | David Hockney … Creative spaces Sharjah Art Foundation (a regular in these pages!) is inviting applications for workspaces in Al Hamriyah Studios. There are three sizes [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Admire more, most people don’t admire enough   | Vincent Van Gogh … Aaaand … we’re back  after two weeks of unpicking stuff the bad folk did to our website and then [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever | Jack Moffett … Art Dubai reinvented It’s Art Dubai time – the art fair runs this weekend (15-17 May) in its repurposed format, with fewer galleries in [ … more]