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This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Sometimes you have to hug people you really don’t like. That way you’ll know how big to dig the hole in the back garden Anon [credit welcome] SB17 curators Sharjah Art Foundationhas named Angela [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Do not topple their idols in anger: pulverize them in play Marquis de Sade DDW 2025 Open Call Dubai Design Week runs 4–9 November at d3, and an open call has just been announced [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If a book is tedious to you, don’t read it; that book was not written for you Jorge Luis Borges Join the club Karama Arts Club has finally got its licence to operate as [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here Arthur C Clarke Eid note 1 It’s Eid ad Adha, and we can all celebrate by [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote It is important to use your hands. That is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator Paul Rand Art Basel Gulf Looks like the rumoured $20m deal for Art [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same Carlos Castaneda Jazz Abu Dhabi … It was International Jazz Day yesterday (30 April), but jazz [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Advice to writers: sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin Stanisław Jerzy Lec Hatta tip Get yourself to Leem Lake in Hatta to see Deliberate Pauses, an al fresco installation by Shaikha [ … ]