For its 2024-25 season, Louvre Abu Dhabi has again come up some very solid announcements – the kind of exhibitions that will help to burnish its reputation, underpin its ethos, and make the most of the relationships it has with [ … ]
Art Jameel’s new Collection Care Fellowship is one of those moves that don’t usually grab the headlines but which probably deserves to. It’s all about practical aspects of museum and public art gallery work including conservation, archives and digitalisation, documentation, [ … ]
The interesting building that has arisen next to the Manarat al Saadiyat and Berklee Abu Dhabi in the Saadiyat Cultural District is Saadiyat’s only private art foundation – indeed, as far as we know the only one in Abu Dhabi [ … ]
There was some excitement when Perrotin opened the doors of its modest gallery space in DIFC back in November 2022. A couple of other big name galleries were already here, but Custot and Leila Heller had set up in Alserkal [ … ]
It’s always a pleasure to report the arrival of a new gallery, particularly one that looks sufficiently well funded and well organised to suggest a professional and long-lived addition to the UAE’s art scene. This one – Rizq Art Initiative, [ … ]
The annual Art Industry Trends Report from Artsy covers key issues for commercial art galleries today. For the recently published 2023 report Artsy ran an online survey that garnered responses from 886 gallery professionals and dealers in 85 countries (though [ … ]
The art market seems to be recovering nicely from the pandemic, with the art fairs apparently unfazed and the buyers continuing to spend. According to the last Art Basel /UBS Global Art Market Report, global sales recovered strongly in 2021, [ … ]
The NYUAD Art Gallery usually runs no more than two or three major exhibitions each season, and it has just announced two for Spring and Fall this year. The team there is keeping busy on other fronts this year, too, [ … ]
The UAE has been positioning itself as an international art hub for over a decade now. This has naturally meant a focus on major projects and big-name players, everything from Christie’s to Louvre Abu Dhabi via the art fairs and [ … ]
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