Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography exhibition Vantage Point Sharjah returns for its 11th edition from 14 October to 14 January, featuring artists “whose work challenges established notions of photographic practices” – four individuals and one collective, chosen through an international [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi will be opening five new exhibitions for its upcoming 2023-2024 cultural season, starting this summer with an edutainment for kids about space in art. That’s followed by an interesting-looking exploration of the Holy Books of the three [ … ]
Alserkal Avenue opened its multidisciplinary space Concrete back in 2017, a hyper-versatile brutalist box that was the first building OMA designed in the UAE. Since then it has hosted a rich and appropriately diverse portfolio of exhibitions and events. To [ … ]
The works by the 10 artists shortlisted for the $60,0000 Richard Mille Art Prize (winner to be announced early next year) are on show in the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2022 exhibition until 19 February 2023. The exhibition is [ … ]
Jasmin Werner is an artist for our times – an artist for our place, too. As an artist her practice has focussed on exploring the architectures of power and objects of status. She’s a German-Filipina, so she knows about crossing [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille have announced the 10 artists shortlisted for the 2022 Richard Mille Art Prize. They will take part in the second edition of the Art Here exhibition, running from 18 November to 19 February in [ … ]
The Musée du Louvre is to loan Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint John the Baptist to Louvre Abu Dhabi. The painting will be on show in the permanent galleries of the UAE museum from 8 November, and it will be with [ … ]
The UAE is to host the fourth GCC Visual Arts Forum in Abu Dhabi this December. The aim: “to promote the creativity of GCC artists in line with the GCC Cultural Strategy 2020-2030”. The GCC Cultural Strategy is a broad-brush [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the five winners of this year’s Vantage Point Photography Awards, presented during the opening of the Vantage Point Sharjah exhibition at Al Hamriyah Studios last Friday. First prize and $5,000 went to Md Fazla Rabbi [ … ]
The second half of the twentieth century was (to say the least) an interesting time for the Gulf – mostly because of oil, of course, with its many political, economic and social impacts. And art was included in those. Several [ … ]
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