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This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote This present moment was once the unimaginable future Stewart Brand Today’s the day Happening today (Thursday): Xposure, the region’s biggest and best festival of photography, running till next Wednesday in its hew Aljada home … a [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote If you want new ideas, read old books Shane Parrish Last-minute music The Tamaas Festival is the latest offer from NYUAD’s Arts Center in its perennial quest to bring clever, imaginative, exciting new music to Abu [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Labels are for jam jars Richard Flanagan Today’s the day Happening today (thursday): the first day – of three – for the Sharjah Biennial opening programme. Pritzker prizewinner Riken Yamamoto talks about the transformative power of [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Keep your eye on the donut, not the hole David Lynch Biennial bit The opening events of Sharjah Biennial 16 run from 6 to 9 February, mostly in and around the galleries of Arts Square but [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote It took me 15 years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give up because by that time I was too famous Peter Benchley Musical notes Dubai [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Life is like a 10-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use Charles M Schulz Gaza Mon Amour A group of 50+ Palestinian artists is trying to set up [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it Samuel Johnson Documenting the UAE The inaugural Dhikhr Award, launched by the NYUAD Institute [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest Public art We’ve updated our sort-of guide to Abu Dhabi’s Public Art Biennial: check it out here, and we’re also listing associated public events in the Agenda The word from our people on the ground is [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest More Tides The Art Gallery at NYUAD is extending Between the Tides: A Gulf Quinquennial – originally due to close 8 December, it will now stay open to 20 April. This is good news: it’s a [ … ]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The Art Fair beat Takeaways from last month’s London-Paris art fairs: Frieze London / Frieze Masters and Art Basel Paris are different enough, they both have really good satellites like 1:54 at Somerset [ … ]