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Comment: 8 May 2025

8 May 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its [… more]
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Circus arts

Bodies of water: Circus Baobab is coming to town

7 May 2025
Vertiginous human pyramids, bodies being thrown seven metres into the air, barely believable hand-on-hand acrobatics, combat, contortions and more – stunning circus skills, and all threaded through with a strong sense of place and a passionate exploration of pollution, power [… more]
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Comment: 30 April 2025

1 May 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same Carlos Castaneda Jazz Abu Dhabi … It was International Jazz Day yesterday (30 April), but jazz [… more]
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Comment: 24 April 2025

24 April 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Advice to writers: sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin Stanisław Jerzy Lec Hatta tip Get yourself to Leem Lake in Hatta to see Deliberate Pauses, an al fresco installation by Shaikha [… more]
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Comment: 17 April 2025

17 April 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote Try to stay passionate, leave your cool to constellations. Passion, above all, is a remedy against boredom Joseph Brodsky Dubai’s the place to be That’s because it’s Art Dubai time, of course, and much [… more]
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Comment: 10 April 2025

10 April 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote There is an art, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss Douglas Adams Buy the numbers The global art market in [… more]
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Comment: 3 April 2025

3 April 2025
This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote We are never definitely right; we can only be sure we are definitely wrong Richard Feynman See me, feel me We’ve been watching DXB Unheard, basically so that you don’t have to. It’s [… more]