FEATURES

Biennial

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]
Art market

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]
Calendar

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]
Institutions

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]
Words

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]