GREY NOISE Alserkal Avenue Grey Noise is in a run of strong shows right now, and this one keeps up the standard. Fahd Burki uses a characteristic vocabulary of symbols, forms and shapes, but the new work does mark a [ … ]
CARBON 12 Alserkal Avenue Carbon 12 has come up with another interesting show, one that “puts the materiality back on the map and chops the meta from the physics” as the bumf puts it. New works from the gallery’s artists [ … ]
AYYAM GALLERY Alserkal Avenue Ayyam’s Alserkal show celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding by highlighting all 52 artists who have had Ayyam solo shows in the past decade – hence the name. There’s painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and [ … ]
AYYAM GALLERY DIFC Recognised as a leading figure among the new generation of contemporary calligraphers, Bozorgi uses his formal training at the Society of Iranian Calligraphers to advance the art of calligraphy through experimental formalism. So it’s calligraphy, but it’s [ … ]
GREEN ART GALLERY Alserkal Avenue Jaber Al Azmeh’s fifth solo at Green Art Gallery continues the artist’s fiercely sharp view of the world in general and the Middle East in particular. There’s a bleak, almost Orwellian feel to these photographs, [ … ]
thejamjar is running a good-looking summer program of “conversations, thinking, and films about art outside of its traditional boxes, with an eye to the ways that arts practice and the art industry in Dubai are uniquely marked by this community [ … ]
“The Middle East’s only quality-driven design trade fair” (it says here) is due to return to d3 for its fourth edition during an expanded Dubai Design Week this October. Downtown Design is the brands-oriented counterpart to the purer design focus [ … ]
Jasper Hope has the kind of seasoned, accomplished voice that wouldn’t sound bad in front of a microphone. Or maybe on the apron stage of a brand new opera house. He’s also a confident performer, which is probably one of [ … ]
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