Calendar
Upcoming: April 2024
A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie for the month of April. Click on the event name and its website will open in a new tab. You can look for specific events from the search [… more]
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Institutions
Doing business with Hong Kong
During Art Basel Hong Kong (which ran 28-30 March), the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority – the body that oversees multiple HK museums, including the spectacular M+ museum – announced that it had signed 20 memoranda of understanding with 21 [… more]
Museums
1.2m visitors for Louvre Abu Dhabi: doing well, will do better
In 2023, Louvre Abu Dhabi recorded a total 1,247,076 visitors. And in the middle of last month, it passed the five million mark for the just over five years since it opened in November 2017; the museum hasn’t made a [… more]
Words
OpEd: Words without borders
It’s World Poetry Day today (21 March). The French-American poet, playwright, translator, and editor Nathalie Handal, Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature and Creative Writing at NYU Abu Dhabi, offers a personal perspective on value of words – especially [… more]
Art market
Artnet counts just under $14 billion art auction sales in 2023
Artnet’s Intelligence Report – aka The Year Ahead 2024 – makes for an interesting counterpoint to the Art Basel / UBS Art Market Report we surveyed last week. It doesn’t attempt to do the same thing, notably because Artnet concentrates [… more]
Art market
Art market growth continues, says Art Basel/UBS Report
Will it never end? In the face of a deteriorating ecosystem, growing inequality around the world, persistent and increasing inflation feeding through into rising costs all round, geopolitical instabilities and a global drift away from democratic values, the art market [… more]
Education
Arts and culture education: just what do we need?
Last month Abu Dhabi hosted the UNESCO World Conference on Culture and Arts Education, a three-day beanfeast for around 1,000 culture and education stakeholders from around the world – including 90 ministers of education and/or culture and 125 other representatives [… more]
Art Fair
Madinat and more: Art Dubai 2024
looks bigger and better than ever – the seventeenth edition of the art fair, which runs from 1 to 3 March at its usual base in Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai (VIP previews 28 and 29 February), has more than 120 galleries [… more]
Calendar
Upcoming: 2024’s film festivals
A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie Click on the event name and its website will open in a new tab. You can look for specific events from the search bar at the top, or [… more]
Dance
Reflecting on dance: dance as reflection
It can be difficult to pin down the unique value of contemporary dance. Yes, there’s the departure from traditional dance forms, breaking away from the constraints of strict choreographic rules and embracing the possibilities of experimentation and individual expression. But [… more]