October 2022 – magpie

A cool gig for the cooler evenings: Raul Midon and Alex Cuba

26 October 2022

The weather’s getting more pleasant for long outdoor evenings, which means it’s time for The Arts Center at NYUAD to move some of its performance outside into the East Plaza. The first such al fresco event this season features two [… more]

Emergent Designer Prize goes to Sharjah student

25 October 2022

The 9th edition of the Middle East Emergent Designer Prize has been won by a novel bookstand design called Ascension. It’s by 20-year-old Moufida Mohideen, currently studying for a BA in Interior Architecture and Design at the University of Sharjah. [… more]

John the Baptist moves from Louvre to Louvre

19 October 2022

The Musée du Louvre is to loan Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint John the Baptist to Louvre Abu Dhabi. The painting will be on show in the permanent galleries of the UAE museum from 8 November, and it will be with [… more]

Artists for cross-border virtual residency programme

19 October 2022

Exit 11 Performing Arts Company has selected nine artists, including four in the UAE, for the second edition of its cross-border, cross-disciplinary virtual residency programme for emerging artists. The three-month residency, the Virtual Collaborative Program for Emerging Artists (VICE), is [… more]

Month: October 2022

A cool gig for the cooler evenings: Raul Midon and Alex Cuba

Emergent Designer Prize goes to Sharjah student

John the Baptist moves from Louvre to Louvre

Artists for cross-border virtual residency programme

Cultural districts and climate crisis: local artists to respond to global concerns

Celebrating visual arts in the GCC

Culture Summit: not just a networking opp for VIPs