June 2024 – magpie

COMMENT

Comment: 27 June 2024

26 June 2024

Abu Dhabi Art en route to Kerala Two of Abu Dhabi Art’s 2023 exhibitions, Beyond Emerging Artists (work by Almaha Jaralla, Samo Shalaby, and Latifa Saeed, all last seen at the Venice Biennale) and Gateway: Maqam (Hashel Al Lamki) are to be shown in [… more]

COMMENT

Comment: 20 June 2024

20 June 2024

Swiss cheers Art Basel’s 2024 edition seems to have been a pretty successful event. Despite fears of a much discussed ‘market correction’, overall attendance clocked in at 91,000 and the post-show press release talks of “a week of strong sales [… more]

Art

In Real Time: art as process

5 June 2024

Most art exhibitions are by their nature static; the curator decides a theme, the artist(s) create work or supply existing pieces that fit the theme, they’re placed in an exhibition space, we go to see them there. The dynamic elements [… more]

Jameel Prize shortlist: seven listed, including Haerizadeh/Haerizadeh/Rahmanian

3 June 2024

Seven projects have been shortlisted for the Jameel Prize (which, serendipitously enough, is in its seventh edition). The Prize is the V&A’s international award for contemporary art and design inspired by Islamic tradition, a triennial competition worth £25,000 to the [… more]