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 [ … ]
You certainly couldn’t say that Louvre Abu Dhabi isn’t getting value (in artistic terms, at least) from its relationship with Agence France Muséums – its autumn show is sure to be a crowd-pleasing blockbuster, “one of the most significant Impressionist [ … ]
The commissions for Abu Dhabi Art’s 2021 Beyond: Emerging Artists initiative are to be shown at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice from 20 April to 22 May 2022. That’s the first month of the Venice Biennale (which actually opens to the [ … ]
March is the month for the UAE’s art lovers, gallerists, speculators and general aficionados of creativity. It all pivots around Art Dubai, which attracts buyers (always acceptable) and the world’s opinion formers (ditto). But it isn’t the only game in [ … ]
The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery has opened its Spring show, describing it with some justification as “a landmark exhibition”. Under the title Parthenogenesis, it marks the first solo show at a UAE institution for Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and [ … ]
Can we listen to the past? Can places and objects retain something of the audio landscapes that once surrounded them? What does the absence of sound sound like? Is it the same as silence? Umashankar Manthravadi used to be a [ … ]
The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival – which opens on Friday 4 February and runs to 31 March – has come a long way in 10 years, to the point where it’s now becoming established as a solid contributor [ … ]
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