Art – Page 2

How to take care

1 May 2024

Art Jameel’s new Collection Care Fellowship is one of those moves that don’t usually grab the headlines but which probably deserves to. It’s all about practical aspects of museum and public art gallery work including conservation, archives and digitalisation, documentation, [… more]

Getting real: NYUAD Art Gallery’s dynamic Spring show

22 February 2024

NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery celebrates its ten-year anniversary (is it ten years already??) with a characteristically interesting exhibition, albeit one that’s a touch more experimental than usual. In Real Time (22 February to 9 June) is a literally dynamic [… more]

Abdullah Al Saadi’s Venice Biennale exhibition

7 February 2024

The National Pavilion UAE has detailed its exhibit at this year’s Venice Biennale. It’s titled Sites of Memory, Sites of Amnesia, and comprises eight artworks by Abdullah Al Saadi. We were enthusiastic about the choice of Abdullah Al Saadi (in [… more]

Third Richard Mille Art Prize won by Nabla Yahya

31 January 2024

Nabla Yahya as been named as the third winner of the $60,000 Richard Mille Art Prize. The Abu Dhabi born artist’s installation, SoftBank (2023), was one of the eight pieces selected for the Art Here 2023 exhibition currently running at [… more]

Festival time in RAK

24 January 2024

Ras Al Khaimah Art, the new incarnation of the Ras Al Khaimah Fine Art Festival, opens to the public at 9pm on Friday 2 February. As ever, it’s at the Al Jazeera Al Hamra Heritage Village, which has increasingly been [… more]

Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2023 winners

29 November 2023

The 2023 Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award was presented at Abu Dhabi Art last week to the artists responsible for Shaheeq – an interesting installation made from rammed earth that one day will return to the earth. Produced annually since 2013 [… more]

Endless seas, melting mountains: Blane De St Croix in conversation

29 November 2023

The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery opened its new season last September with one of its most pertinent shows: Horizon by Blane De St Croix. He’s a sculptor who works on the relationship between people and landscape, and in particular [… more]

Taking a Rizq?

22 November 2023

It’s always a pleasure to report the arrival of a new gallery, particularly one that looks sufficiently well funded and well organised to suggest a professional and long-lived addition to the UAE’s art scene. This one – Rizq Art Initiative, [… more]

Obaid Alsafi named winner of Ithra Art Prize

14 November 2023

The sixth edition of the Ithra Art Prize, the region’s most valuable competitive art award, has gone to the Saudi Artist Obaid Alsafi (right) for an installation that reflects on climate change and how to preserve natural diversity. The King [… more]

After rain: much promise for the 2nd Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale

8 November 2023

The second Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale next year (20 February to 24 May) looks like going a long way towards its progenitors’ ambitions to further establish Saudi Arabia as a significant destination for art. It will have 92 artists from [… more]