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Upcoming: 2024’s international arts fairs and biennials

17 January 2024

A calendar of events in and around the cultural life of magpie Click on the event name and its website will open in a new tab. You can look for specific events from the search bar at the top, or [ … ]

Upcoming: 2024’s international arts festivals

17 January 2024

Art Dubai 2024: more extras, wider regionality

9 January 2024

Art Dubai is promising a significantly expanded public programme for its 2024 edition (1-3 March) including what’s described as “the most extensive education, talks and thought-leadership programme of any international art fair”. The organisers said much the same last year, [ … ]

What the rich want from art (and what they get)

13 December 2023

At the end of November, Deloitte published the eighth edition of its Art & Finance Report, coproduced with the London-based art market research and data intelligence company ArtTactic (whose other work includes the Online Art Trade Report in partnership with [ … ]

Indie in Sharjah: SFP6 returns

6 December 2023

The sixth edition of Sharjah Arts Foundation’s annual film festival, which runs from 8 to 17 December, features more than 50 films from around the world – a range of independent cinema and experimental filmmaking that “foregrounds the transformative role [ … ]

G4C Middle East Summit returns

5 December 2023

The second Games for Change Middle East Summit will be held in Abu Dhabi next week (14-15 December, plus the BLAST Premier World Final matches on 14-17 December), further buffing the capital’s growing rep as a regional hub for game [ … ]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2023 winners

29 November 2023

The 2023 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award was presented at Abu Dhabi Art last week to the artists responsible for Shaheeq – an interesting installation made from rammed earth that one day will return to the earth. Produced annually since 2013 [ … ]

Endless seas, melting mountains: Blane De St Croix in conversation

29 November 2023

The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery opened its new season last September with one of its most pertinent shows: Horizon by Blane De St Croix. He’s a sculptor who works on the relationship between people and landscape, and in particular [ … ]

From Fine Art to RAK Art: Ras Al Khaimah Art Festival evolves

22 November 2023

The Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival always seemed a misnomer. Fine art as a concept surely promotes aesthetic and intellectual purposes over (say) practical utility and/or handcrafted quality. Fine art implies hushed exhibition rooms, single-minded artists often working in [ … ]

Small world, big show

22 November 2023

All musical endeavours have a backstory, of course. But few have as interesting a context as Small Island Big Song. The easy part first: Small Island Big Song is a touring show (and associated albums and film) that gigs at [ … ]