The open call for one of the Arab world’s most significant art awards – the sixth edition of the Ithra Art Prize, which wins one artist $100,000 plus a build budget – has a deadline of 30 September. The Ithra [ … ]
The inaugural half-year edition of the Artnet Intelligence Report, compiled by Artnet News contributor Julia Halperin, attempts to describe the current art market by the numbers. The conclusion: prices are generally dropping and bargains are to be had for the [ … ]
Dubai Institute of Design and Innovation has promoted Hani Asfour to the new position of Vice President – Innovation and Institutional Partnerships. He’s replaced as DIDI’s Dean by Dr Amir Zeid (right), formerly the Founding Dean of the College of [ … ]
The fifteenth edition of Abu Dhabi Art, which runs 22-26 November 2023, will be the largest yet – there will be 92 gallery booths (a few galleries are in more than one section). They include 37 new and 55 returning [ … ]
Louvre Abu Dhabi and Richard Mille have named the jury for the third edition of Louvre Abu Dhabi Art Here 2023 and The Richard Mille Art Prize – the open call for which closed on 3 July, with the successful artists yet to [ … ]
The winning proposal for the inaugural Jaddaf Playscape Commission for Dubai Public Art is a playground for all ages from the UAE-based design collective Theories of Imagination (TOFI) – artist-architect Noor Alwan and artist-designer Abdulla Buhijji. Due to open to [ … ]
The magpie team is taking a few weeks to recharge, reevaluate and refresh. Over the summer we’ll be updating the Agenda pages and the Opportunities listings as information comes in, and we will continue with our social media posts to [ … ]
There really is no ‘world music’. It’s a marketing term created by the music industry to help sell non-Western music to Western buyers. In that respect, it’s proved a useful way of introducing artists from elsewhere to consumers in the [ … ]
The ninth Dubai Design Week is scheduled for 7 to 12 November, and the organisers are looking for participants. As part of what it’s calling “a platform to cultivate and empower design in the region”, DDW is planning a programme [ … ]
The Abu Dhabi pavilion has been named as one of three jury-selected winners of awards at the 2023 London Design Biennale, presented to the pavilions that have contributed the most exceptional installations to the Biennale. Abu Dhabi’s ‘Formation of Soof’ [ … ]
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