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magpie Weekly issue 7.01 / 18 Sep 2025

18 September 2025

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: World is crazier and more of it than we think / Incorrigibly plural Louis MacNiece And, just like that, summer’s over and magpie Weekly is back – ready, willing, nay eager to keep [ … ]

Eleven years and counting: so what’s new with The Arts Center?

17 September 2025

It’s become something of a magpie tradition to interview Bill Bragin at the start of a new season for The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi. In part that’s because he’s chatty and any interviewer likes an interview to flow, [ … ]

Tasting a new art form? Find Your Eyes at The Arts Center

15 September 2025

With Find Your Eyes, Benji Reid (right) has made a performance that is unlike any you will have seen. Other artists have approached the creative process itself as performance; but no one else has combined photography, choreography and theatre to [ … ]

Alla Abdunabi (left) and Maktoum Marwan Al Maktoum from Abu Dhabi Art's Beyond Emerging Artists programme

Abu Dhabi Art’s three emerging artists for the Beyond programme

17 July 2025

Abu Dhabi Art has named Alla Abdunabi, Salmah Almansoori, and Maktoum Marwan Al Maktoum for its Beyond Emerging Artists commissions programme. They’ll be mentored by Issam Kourbaj and will show their new work at Abu Dhabi Art this November; the [ … ]

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16 July 2025

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: If you are like most people, then like most people, you don’t know you’re like most people Daniel Gilbert ZNM to open this year December 2025 has been confirmed for the opening of [ … ]

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10 July 2025

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it, and above all, accurately so they will be guided [ … ]

Plans and curators for the third Sharjah Architecture Triennial

4 July 2025

The Sharjah Architecture Triennial has named a heavyweight curator for its third edition and released a commendably lucid curatorial statement. The curator is Vyjayanthi Rao. She’s an anthropologist, writer, artist, and curator based between New York and Mumbai. Currently a [ … ]

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2 July 2025

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: A classic is a work which relegates the noise of the present to a background hum, without which at the same time the classics cannot exist Italo Calvino Upcoming at The Arts [ … ]

Zaha Hadid masterplan for BEEAH’s Khalid Bin Sultan City project

30 June 2025

Zaha Hadid Architects has been publicising its masterplan for Khalid Bin Sultan City, a mixed-use development adjacent to BEEAH’s headquarters in Sharjah. There’s no word yet on how big it will be, how many people and workplaces it will house, [ … ]

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30 June 2025

This week’s editorial musings from magpie’s nest The quote: Sometimes you have to hug people you really don’t like. That way you’ll know how big to dig the hole in the back garden Anon [credit welcome] SB17 curators Sharjah Art Foundationhas named Angela [ … ]