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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]

Upcoming: April 2024

2 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]

Doing business with Hong Kong

2 April 2024

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]

1.2m visitors for Louvre Abu Dhabi: doing well, will do better

2 April 2024

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]

OpEd: Words without borders

19 March 2024

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]

Artnet counts just under $14 billion art auction sales in 2023

19 March 2024

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 growth continues, says Art Basel/UBS Report

13 March 2024

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]

Arts and culture education: just what do we need?

12 March 2024

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]

Madinat and more: Art Dubai 2024

29 February 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]

Upcoming: 2024’s film festivals

28 February 2024

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]