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This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Art galleries should hang terrible paintings from the same period as their masterpieces so that visitors can realise quite how amazing the good paintings are | James Marriott … Dubai’s cultural sector [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Theatre is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place | Martha Graham … Gone, won’t be forgotten “It’s a big day today, as I close [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: I became a journalist partly so that I wouldn’t ever have to rely on the press for my information | Christopher Hitchens … Abu Dhabi dates The Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial 2026-27, titled [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you’re not playful you’re not alive | David Hockney … Creative spaces Sharjah Art Foundation (a regular in these pages!) is inviting applications for workspaces in Al Hamriyah Studios. There are three sizes [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Admire more, most people don’t admire enough   | Vincent Van Gogh … Aaaand … we’re back  after two weeks of unpicking stuff the bad folk did to our website and then [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever | Jack Moffett … Art Dubai reinvented It’s Art Dubai time – the art fair runs this weekend (15-17 May) in its repurposed format, with fewer galleries in [… more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas | Linus Pauling … AED 1bn for Dubai creatives … sort of Dubai Culture has produced a ‘Creative [… more]