FEATURES - magpie

DIDI students to pitch projects for the Terra Carta Design Lab

1 October 2023

Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation has joined the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Terra Carta Design Lab contest to find student-led, high-impact, marketable solutions to sustainability issues and the climate crisis. Alongside DIDI this year are India’s National Institute of Design [… more]

Mubadala investing in Abu Dhabi’s cultural sector?

29 September 2023

DCT Abu Dhabi and Mubadala Foundation have signed an agreement for the latter to pump AED 50 million (around $13.6m) into the emirate’s cultural sector over the next five years. This is described as “a first-of-its-kind agreement” and “a step [… more]

The right time for specialist PR in arts and culture?

27 September 2023

We wouldn’t normally flag the arrival of a PR agency in the region, not least because Dubai and Abu Dubai are awash with them, but in this case we think it’s worth paying attention: Pelham Communications has opened an office [… more]

Louvre AD’s Art Here 2023: the shortlisted artists

27 September 2023

The seven artists shortlisted for the third edition of Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here have been announced. From this group one winner will be selected to receive the Richard Mille Art Prize (and its $60,000 cash award). The theme for [… more]

Commissions and projects for Sharjah Architecture Triennial

27 September 2023

Sharjah Architecture Triennial has outlined the new commissions and site-specific projects for its 2023 edition, due to open 11 November. Under the title The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability and curated by architect Tosin Oshinowo, the Triennial will [… more]

Next Sharjah Biennial curators announced

16 September 2023

We’re only just done with Sharjah Biennial 15 – and very good it was, too – but already Sharjah Art Foundation is announcing the curators for the Biennial’s next edition, which runs from February through June 2025. As is becoming [… more]

Super-smart shopping cart for James Dyson

16 September 2023

“The problems of the future will be solved by today’s bright young engineers and scientists. But they need inspiration and encouragement.” That’s the ethos behind the James Dyson Award; and whatever your views about Mr Dyson himself, the award has [… more]

VPS returns

16 September 2023

Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual photography exhibition Vantage Point Sharjah returns for its 11th edition from 14 October to 14 January, featuring artists “whose work challenges established notions of photographic practices” – four individuals and one collective, chosen through an international [… more]

By the book: performance arts come to Saadiyat

13 September 2023

So what were you doing seven years ago? Bill Bragin was opening the pilot season of his arts centre at NYU Abu Dhabi. It probably was the only multi-disciplinary arts and performance space in the country at the time, and [… more]

AlUla Design Award winners on show in Paris

12 September 2023

Arts AlUla riffed off the buzz around Paris Design Week to announce the five winners of the AlUla Design Award there. The Award invited designers to develop retail items across six categories inspired by the heritage, landscape and artistic legacies [… more]