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Jameel Prize shortlist: seven listed, including Haerizadeh/Haerizadeh/Rahmanian

3 June 2024

Seven projects have been shortlisted for the Jameel Prize (which, serendipitously enough, is in its seventh edition). The Prize is the V&A’s international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition, a triennial competition worth £25,000 to the [… more]

The independent option: Oddisee does hip hop his way

22 May 2024

Oddisee is coming to town. He’s the classic independent hip hop artist, making his own music for the last 20 years and running his own label now, avoiding the temptations of big-money promoters and organising his own promotion. In a [… more]

After Impressionism, inside Africa: the big shows from Louvre Abu Dhabi for next season

22 May 2024

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 [… more]

Rascals in Abu Dhabi: the SCHLiNGEL film festival comes to town

21 May 2024

The German word ‘Schlingel’ loosely translates as ‘rascal’. It’s also the name of one of the world’s best established film festivals for children and young people, held since 1995 in the German city of Chemnitz and set this year for [… more]

How to take care

1 May 2024

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, [… more]

Upcoming: May 2024

29 April 2024

A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie for the month of May. All the events we know about, all round the world. Click on the event name and its website will open in a new [… more]

Deep roots: mining the past to reveal contemporary Arab art

24 April 2024

The story of Arab modern and contemporary art is vibrant and diverse, a rich brew of cultural traditions and myriad experiences of modernity. But that’s to be expected, says Salwa Mikdadi, Professor of Practice of Art History at NYU Abu [… more]

What’s in the box?

17 April 2024

Tonight (18 April) Abu Dhabi sees the world premiere of PETTEE: storybox, a groundbreaking performance that blurs the lines between stage and audience, dance and theatre. Written and directed by Deepak Unnikrishnan and Karthika Naïr, the piece was commissioned by [… more]

Advance notices for Sharjah Biennial 16

17 April 2024

An initial artist list and a curatorial framework have been announced for next year’s Sharjah Biennial 16, which runs 6 February to 15 June 2025. The curatorial framework isn’t too specific – there’s no overarching title for SB16, for instance. [… more]

What’s hot in the art auction rooms

17 April 2024

Art market analyses are always interesting – sometimes for the specifics, more usually for the trends. The specifics can easily be skewed by one-off events; the sales success of a particular artist in a particular year could be down to [… more]