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Dance de/reconstructed: the William Forsythe legacy

14 November 2022

Just what is modern dance? What is its vocabulary, what are its rules? Where do its limitations lie – if at all? And how does dance relate to other disciplines, other ways of thinking – indeed, how does it relate [… more]

Art Dubai offers a taster

13 November 2022

Art Dubai chose the week before Abu Dhabi Art to announce the list of participating galleries for its 2023 edition, which will take place at Madinat Jumeirah from 3 to 5 March 2023. There will be more than 100 galleries [… more]

Art and the very rich: is there enough to go round?

9 November 2022

Crisis? What crisis? Despite the predictions of post-Covid gloom, widespread economic despondency as inflation his new peaks, the wars continuing around the world, the growth of rabid populism, and imminent global environmental disaster, it seems the rich are feeling pretty [… more]

From East Berlin to Downtown Dubai: a story of steel and OFWs

9 November 2022

Jasmin Werner is an artist for our times – an artist for our place, too. As an artist her practice has focussed on exploring the architectures of power and objects of status. She’s a German-Filipina, so she knows about crossing [… more]

Abu Dhabi Art goes free (and into the metaverse)

8 November 2022

For the first time Abu Dhabi Art has announced that entry to the art fair will be free of charge for all visitors. In past years there’s been a small charge (around AED 30) though to be fair it was [… more]

ADMAF Design Fund winners

8 November 2022

Two young Emirati jewellery designers, Asma Almarri and Media Alfalasi, have jointly been awarded the ADMAF Design Fund. They each get AED 50,000 to develop their careers with the support of partnership with L’ÉCOLE des Arts Joailliers, the Van Cleef [… more]

Making money from youth

3 November 2022

Every autumn, Artprice.com publishes a report based on its monitoring of the global Contemporary Art market – which in practice means the publicly reported sales of such works (paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, prints, videos, installations, art NFTs, and of course [… more]

Art here / art now: artists for the Richard Mille Art Prize

2 November 2022

Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille have announced the 10 artists shortlisted for the 2022 Richard Mille Art Prize. They will take part in the second edition of the Art Here exhibition, running from 18 November to 19 February in [… more]

A cool gig for the cooler evenings: Raul Midon and Alex Cuba

26 October 2022

The weather’s getting more pleasant for long outdoor evenings, which means it’s time for The Arts Center at NYUAD to move some of its performance outside into the East Plaza. The first such al fresco event this season features two [… more]

Emergent Designer Prize goes to Sharjah student

25 October 2022

The 9th edition of the Middle East Emergent Designer Prize has been won by a novel bookstand design called Ascension. It’s by 20-year-old Moufida Mohideen, currently studying for a BA in Interior Architecture and Design at the University of Sharjah. [… more]