This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present Don Marquis … It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas … It’s the gifting season, apparently, [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means, what I want and what I fear Joan Didion … Art Dubai intro [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: Try to learn something about everything and everything about something Thomas Huxley … Art Dubai intro info Art Dubai’s 20th anniversary edition (17–19 Apr) – the first under new Fair Director Dunja Gottweis – gets [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: I wonder if a single thought that has helped forward the human spirit has ever been conceived or written down in an enormous room Kenneth Clark … The place to be No apologies for [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance Rem Koolhaas … Abu Dhabi art week? Abu Dhabi seems to be acquiring an art week, possibly a whole art festival. There’s Abu Dhabi Art (plus its [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote: Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late Benjamin Franklin Dubai gets a museum too The big news in Dubai this week was the announcement of DUMA, the Dubai [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good Paula Scher ZNM opens RSN The Zayed National Museum will open its doors to the public on 3 December – [ … ]

This week’s editorial musingsfrom magpie’s nest The quote Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction Francis Picabia It’s the end of Abu Dhabi Art as we know it Having established itself as the biggest regional art fair of 2025, Abu Dhabi [ … ]