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Jewelled insights

30 August 2024
Of course there’s a backstory to everything, but that’s especially true for the most intricate, elaborate, finely worked examples of art, design and craft that combine to produce luxury jewellery. The levels of skill, expertise and commitment at each stage [… more]
Festival

Films for a greener future?

29 August 2024
It’s good to see collaboration between the UAE’s cultural entities. In the case of national cultural representatives, with a role to play in introduction, exchange, and connection, there are often some very specific contributions that they can make in introducing [… more]
COMMENT

Comment: 25 July 2024

25 July 2024
This week’s editorial musings 421 funding artists 421 Arts Campus in Abu Dhabi has named the seven artists selected for its 2024-25 capacity-building programmes – Alla Abdunabi, Ana Escobar and Juma Alhaj in the Artistic Development Program; Shama Al Hamed, Adrian [… more]
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Comment: 18 July 2024

18 July 2024
This week’s editorial musings Capital jazz Abu Dhabi has been selected as ‘Global Host’ for the 2025 edition of International Jazz Day (run by UNESCO, celebrated each year on 30 April). We’re promised that “the celebration in this cosmopolitan city [… more]
Arts Centre

The Arts Center at NYUAD: open to members

17 July 2024
The Arts Center at NYUAD has introduced an annual membership programme, which gives advance booking and discount deals on a year’s performances. Given the quality of the Arts Center’s programming and the inevitably frequent sellouts, this looks like a pretty [… more]
Art

Five artists for Art Here 2024

9 July 2024
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2024, now in its fourth edition, has rapidly become a significant entry in the Middle East’s art exhibition calendar – a regional competition for 3D work that benefits from sponsorship by luxe watchmaker Richard Mille [… more]
COMMENT

Comment: 4 July 2024

3 July 2024
This week’s editorial musings Now read on This year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair had more than 200,000 visitors. Some were polled as they left, and the organisers report a 97% visitor satisfaction rate – up 5% on 2023. Which kinda begs [… more]
COMMENT

Comment: 27 June 2024

26 June 2024
This week’s editorial musings Abu Dhabi Art en route to Kerala Two of Abu Dhabi Art’s 2023 exhibitions, Beyond Emerging Artists (work by Almaha Jaralla, Samo Shalaby, and Latifa Saeed, all last seen at the Venice Biennale) and Gateway: Maqam (Hashel Al Lamki) are [… more]
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Comment: 20 June 2024

20 June 2024
This week’s editorial musings Swiss cheers Art Basel’s 2024 edition seems to have been a pretty successful event. Despite fears of a much discussed ‘market correction’, overall attendance clocked in at 91,000 and the post-show press release talks of “a [… more]