Art

Five artists for Art Here 2024

9 July 2024
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2024, now in its fourth edition, has rapidly become a significant entry in the Middle East’s art exhibition calendar – a regional competition for 3D work that benefits from sponsorship by luxe watchmaker Richard Mille [ … ]
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Comment: 4 July 2024

3 July 2024
This week’s editorial musings Now read on This year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair had more than 200,000 visitors. Some were polled as they left, and the organisers report a 97% visitor satisfaction rate – up 5% on 2023. Which kinda begs [ … ]
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Comment: 27 June 2024

26 June 2024
This week’s editorial musings Abu Dhabi Art en route to Kerala Two of Abu Dhabi Art’s 2023 exhibitions, Beyond Emerging Artists (work by Almaha Jaralla, Samo Shalaby, and Latifa Saeed, all last seen at the Venice Biennale) and Gateway: Maqam (Hashel Al Lamki) are [ … ]
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Comment: 20 June 2024

20 June 2024
This week’s editorial musings Swiss cheers Art Basel’s 2024 edition seems to have been a pretty successful event. Despite fears of a much discussed ‘market correction’, overall attendance clocked in at 91,000 and the post-show press release talks of “a [ … ]
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In Real Time: art as process

5 June 2024
Most art exhibitions are by their nature static; the curator decides a theme, the artist(s) create work or supply existing pieces that fit the theme, they’re placed in an exhibition space, we go to see them there. The dynamic elements [ … ]
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How to take care

1 May 2024
Art Jameel’s new Collection Care Fellowship is one of those moves that don’t usually grab the headlines but which probably deserves to. It’s all about practical aspects of museum and public art gallery work including conservation, archives and digitalisation, documentation, [ … ]