AEA Consulting’s Cultural Infrastructure Index is always an interesting read. Established back in 2016, it aims to provide an overview of investment in big cultural sector projects, specifically those a budget of $10 million or more that were publicly announced [ … ]
UNESCO’s ever-expanding ‘Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity’ has acquired three new entries from the UAE at its last meeting, in Rabat at the end of November. Noura Al Kaabi, UAE Minister of Culture, said she was [ … ]
Alongside its more prosaic role as a landlord for the 70 or so warehouse-style units in Al Quoz that are so well suited to contemporary art galleries and associated businesses, Alserkal Avenue sees itself as having something of a mission [ … ]
In October the UAE happens to be playing host to some blue-sky thinking – in the capital a stellar line-up of speakers at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi muses about the future of culture, in Dubai the reportedly very successful Dubai [ … ]
If you’re a magpie reader, there’s a reasonable chance that you’d like a job in or around the arts. For some of us, it’s all a matter of chance. For others there might more agency involved, particularly if you’re at [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi has signed another Memorandum of Understanding to extend collaboration, this time with NYU Abu Dhabi. The MoU route is an accepted mechanism in UAE institutions to formalise a relationship without specifying very much in the way of [ … ]
Culture in Times of COVID-19: Resilience, Recovery, Revival is an interesting exercise, basically because international crises demand international responses – coordinated, multilateral, policy-based, and sufficiently funded, with deliverables at both the regional and global levels. Good luck with that. This [ … ]
At the end of November 2021 the UAE adopted the largest legislative changes in its history, with more than 40 new or significantly amended laws. The changes apply across many sectors, from trade and industry to the production, sale and [ … ]
Abu Dhabi has joined the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, an initiative launched in 2004 to promote cooperation among cities which recognise creativity as a major factor in their sustainable urban development plans. The Network allows member cities to select only [ … ]
The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra – that’s its rather beautiful Snøhetta-designed Dhahram HQ in the picture) has been burnishing its credentials as a regional thinktank for the cultural and creative ecosystem with the release of a series [ … ]
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