Tashkeel has named the four designers for its 2016 Tanween Design Programme. The programme supports UAE-based designers to develop a range of viable products that that respond to the specific environment of the Emirates. Getting the nod are Hamza Omari [ … ]
GALLERY ISABELLE VAN DEN EYNDE Alserkal Avenue Domestic Affairs is a real pleasure – a quiet, intimate, affectionate show based on the domesticity of everyday life exemplified by textiles, the human body, and those essential objects that make a home [ … ]
It is fair to say that not everyone wants a man dressed as a rabbit as an accompaniment to dinner. An increasing number of people do, however. “We’re working to change the perception of the phrase ‘dinner show’ together,” says [ … ]
Cinema Akil is “an Independent cinema platform dedicated to showcasing the best of arthouse, independent, alternative and classic films”, says co-founder Butheina Kazim. So no pressure then. In fact Cinema Akil is delivering the goods, putting on pop-up programmes around [ … ]
It’s become a commonplace that centres of art can turn up in rundown neighbourhoods or industrial wastelands, and actually thrive there given the advantages of low rents, large spaces and (eventually) a community of like-minded practitioners. Tick two of those [ … ]
The region will need “at least” 30,000 new design graduates by 2019, a ninefold increase on the current situation – and right now it’s not obvious where they are coming from That’s the headline conclusion from the MENA Design Education [ … ]
The world is full of aspiring interior designers, quite apart from the mass of Sharpie-wielding social media mavens who style themselves as such. But if you want a real job with a real interior design studio doing real work, you [ … ]
Art Dubai has added three new members to its gallery Selection and Advisory Committees, all of them good names to be seen with and all firm supporters of the fair. Glenn Scott Wright (co-director of Victoria Miro in London) and [ … ]
MEEM GALLERY Al Quoz Back in 2008, Meem put together an influential show of print works by Arab artists. Now it returns to the theme, with an exhibition that brings together work by Dia Azzawi, Kamal Boullata, Marwan, Mohammad Omar [ … ]
CUSTOT GALLERY DUBAI Alserkal Avenue After featuring Bernar Venet’s work in its inaugural exhibition The World Meets Here, Custot has followed up with a full solo show for the influential French artist – his first in the region. Venet is [ … ]
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