This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you’re not playful you’re not alive | David Hockney … Creative spaces Sharjah Art Foundation (a regular in these pages!) is inviting applications for workspaces in Al Hamriyah Studios. There are three sizes [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Admire more, most people don’t admire enough   | Vincent Van Gogh … Aaaand … we’re back  after two weeks of unpicking stuff the bad folk did to our website and then [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever | Jack Moffett … Art Dubai reinvented It’s Art Dubai time – the art fair runs this weekend (15-17 May) in its repurposed format, with fewer galleries in [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas | Linus Pauling … AED 1bn for Dubai creatives … sort of Dubai Culture has produced a ‘Creative [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: We hardly ever realise that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye | Carlos Castaneda … SB17 first look Sharjah Art Foundation has announced the [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS | Henry James … Register here DCT Abu Dhabi has launched a Register of Cultural Organisations and Professionals and wants you to sign up here if you’re an organisation [ … more]

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: For me, painting is but another word for feeling | John Constable … Art Dubai reborn Art Dubai’s revised attendance list for what is being called a Special Edition features 50 galleries [ … more]