Month: May 2025

COMMENT

Comment: 29 May 2025

28 May 2025
The quote All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, [… more]
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Comment: 22 May 2025

21 May 2025
The quote It is important to use your hands. That is what distinguishes you from a cow or a computer operator Paul Rand Art Basel Gulf Looks like the rumoured $20m deal for Art Basel to take over Abu Dhabi Art [… more]
COMMENT

Comment: 15 May 2025

15 May 2025
The quote To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads Jon Bing Home-grown prizes The fifth edition [… more]
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Comment: 8 May 2025

8 May 2025
The quote The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make [… more]
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Circus arts

Bodies of water: Circus Baobab is coming to town

7 May 2025
Vertiginous human pyramids, bodies being thrown seven metres into the air, barely believable hand-on-hand acrobatics, combat, contortions and more – stunning circus skills, and all threaded through with a strong sense of place and a passionate exploration of pollution, power [… more]
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Comment: 30 April 2025

1 May 2025
The quote We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same Carlos Castaneda Jazz Abu Dhabi … It was International Jazz Day yesterday (30 April), but jazz is big for the next few weeks [… more]