magpie – Page 29 – Art Performance Design Words: your guide to culture, design and creativity in the UAE

No more Warehouse in Warehouse421

23 November 2022

Abu Dhabi’s Warehouse421 has a new name (farewell Warehouse421, hello 421) and a new brand identity. Originally it aimed to provide “a dynamic space that could be home to exhibitions and events that our community sorely needed at the time”; [ … ]

Art Here here now

22 November 2022

The works by the 10 artists shortlisted for the $60,0000 Richard Mille Art Prize (winner to be announced early next year) are on show in the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2022 exhibition until 19 February 2023. The exhibition is [ … ]

Dyson Award winners: “the brilliance of simple design”

19 November 2022

The James Dyson Award might feel like naked self-promotion (why is the first name necessary?) but it does encourage young designers to come up with practical solutions to real problems – and as well as providing some cash for the [ … ]

Alserkal Arts Foundation adds a new selection committee, awards research grants

16 November 2022

Alserkal Arts Foundation has launched its new season with the introduction of a new Selection Committee that will serve as advisors to the Foundation and mentors to residents and grantees. The committee members for the first two-year tenure are artist [ … ]

Christo winner unveiled

16 November 2022

The winning installation for The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2022 has been unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art. Urban Fabric is a series of four sculptures conceptualised and built by NYUAD sophomore undergraduates Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Gerald Jason Cruz and Jennifer [ … ]

Dance de/reconstructed: the William Forsythe legacy

14 November 2022

Just what is modern dance? What is its vocabulary, what are its rules? Where do its limitations lie – if at all? And how does dance relate to other disciplines, other ways of thinking – indeed, how does it relate [ … ]

Art Dubai offers a taster

13 November 2022

Art Dubai chose the week before Abu Dhabi Art to announce the list of participating galleries for its 2023 edition, which will take place at Madinat Jumeirah from 3 to 5 March 2023. There will be more than 100 galleries [ … ]

Art and the very rich: is there enough to go round?

9 November 2022

Crisis? What crisis? Despite the predictions of post-Covid gloom, widespread economic despondency as inflation his new peaks, the wars continuing around the world, the growth of rabid populism, and imminent global environmental disaster, it seems the rich are feeling pretty [ … ]

From East Berlin to Downtown Dubai: a story of steel and OFWs

9 November 2022

Jasmin Werner is an artist for our times – an artist for our place, too. As an artist her practice has focussed on exploring the architectures of power and objects of status. She’s a German-Filipina, so she knows about crossing [ … ]

Abu Dhabi Art goes free (and into the metaverse)

8 November 2022

For the first time Abu Dhabi Art has announced that entry to the art fair will be free of charge for all visitors. In past years there’s been a small charge (around AED 30) though to be fair it was [ … ]