Calendar
Upcoming: May 2024
All the events we know about, all round the world. Click on the event name and its website will open in a new tab. You can look for specific events from the search bar at the top, or you can [… more]
Month: April 2024
Art history
Deep roots: mining the past to reveal contemporary Arab art
The story of Arab modern and contemporary art is vibrant and diverse, a rich brew of cultural traditions and myriad experiences of modernity. But that’s to be expected, says Salwa Mikdadi, Professor of Practice of Art History at NYU Abu [… more]
Dance
What’s in the box?
Tonight (18 April) Abu Dhabi sees the world premiere of PETTEE: storybox, a groundbreaking performance that blurs the lines between stage and audience, dance and theatre. Written and directed by Deepak Unnikrishnan and Karthika Naïr, the piece was commissioned by [… more]
Biennial
Advance notices for Sharjah Biennial 16
An initial artist list and a curatorial framework have been announced for next year’s Sharjah Biennial 16, which runs 6 February to 15 June 2025. The curatorial framework isn’t too specific – there’s no overarching title for SB16, for instance. [… more]
Art market
What’s hot in the art auction rooms
Art market analyses are always interesting – sometimes for the specifics, more usually for the trends. The specifics can easily be skewed by one-off events; the sales success of a particular artist in a particular year could be down to [… more]
Calendar
Upcoming: April 2024
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Institutions
Doing business with Hong Kong
During Art Basel Hong Kong (which ran 28-30 March), the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority – the body that oversees multiple HK museums, including the spectacular M+ museum – announced that it had signed 20 memoranda of understanding with 21 [… more]
Museums
1.2m visitors for Louvre Abu Dhabi: doing well, will do better
In 2023, Louvre Abu Dhabi recorded a total 1,247,076 visitors. And in the middle of last month, it passed the five million mark for the just over five years since it opened in November 2017; the museum hasn’t made a [… more]