Now you might have thought puppets were for kids, and a sweet tale about a robot falling in love might be a tad insubstantial. You’d be wrong. Nufonia Must Fall is indeed a charming, touchingly intimate tale; but it’s delivered [ … ]
The second year of the Audi Innovation Award is open for submissions. The Award, presented at Dubai Design Week in November and worjt $25,000 to the winner, aims to highlight innovative ideas, acting as a design and technology industry motivator. [ … ]
Anna Kurkova’s DUNESCAPE, the winner of the 2017 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award, has been installed at NYU Abu Dhabi. It will be there till 11 May, then moves to Umm Al Emarat Park in Abu Dhabi (18 May to 3 [ … ]
Abu Dhabi’s Reem Island will be acquiring an important new cultural space for artists, if plans announced at Cityscape Abu Dhabi recently go ahead as promised. The track record of major developments which get a Cityscape unveiling is a tad [ … ]
Sharjah Art Foundation welcomes submissions from anyone residing in the UAE or the GCC countries for the fifth edition of Vantage Point Sharjah. The exhibition will feature photographs centred on the theme of Architecture and Urban Landscape. The deadline for application is 27 [ … ]
Foster + Partners was responsible for the design of the new Apple Dubai Mall store, which opened on 27 April and claims to be “reinventing the traditional introverted idea of mall-based retail as a more outward looking experience that engages [ … ]
The regional finals of the International Woolmark Prize, the prestigious award for fashion talent from around the globe, are heading to Dubai for a second time. The finalists for the Indian Subcontinent and Middle East include the reasonably well established [ … ]
A Small Death by Mohammed Hasan Alwan was announced as the winner of the 10th International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) at the start of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. A Small Death follows the life of the philosopher-poet [ … ]
The Bait al Oud in Abu Dhabi has long been a centre of practice and theory for the oud, attracting the best teachers and researchers and regularly producing the finest talent in oud musicians. Since being established in 2008 it [ … ]
The UAE National Pavilion team has listed the selection of artworks to be displayed in its exhibition at the 2017 Venice Biennale. There are also additional commissions to be included in the accompanying publication and a series of “activations and [ … ]
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