Month: July 2024

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Comment: 25 July 2024

25 July 2024
421 funding artists 421 Arts Campus in Abu Dhabi has named the seven artists selected for its 2024-25 capacity-building programmes – Alla Abdunabi, Ana Escobar and Juma Alhaj in the Artistic Development Program; Shama Al Hamed, Adrian Pepe, Yousif Abdulsaid and Farah [… more]
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Comment: 18 July 2024

18 July 2024
Capital jazz Abu Dhabi has been selected as ‘Global Host’ for the 2025 edition of International Jazz Day (run by UNESCO, celebrated each year on 30 April). We’re promised that “the celebration in this cosmopolitan city will embody the power [… more]
Arts Centre

The Arts Center at NYUAD: open to members

17 July 2024
The Arts Center at NYUAD has introduced an annual membership programme, which gives advance booking and discount deals on a year’s performances. Given the quality of the Arts Center’s programming and the inevitably frequent sellouts, this looks like a pretty [… more]
Art

Five artists for Art Here 2024

9 July 2024
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2024, now in its fourth edition, has rapidly become a significant entry in the Middle East’s art exhibition calendar – a regional competition for 3D work that benefits from sponsorship by luxe watchmaker Richard Mille [… more]
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Comment: 4 July 2024

3 July 2024
Now read on This year’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair had more than 200,000 visitors. Some were polled as they left, and the organisers report a 97% visitor satisfaction rate – up 5% on 2023. Which kinda begs the question: what were [… more]