FEATURES

Festival

Anticipating LitFest

7 December 2022
We’ve been browsing the newly released schedule for the upcoming Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature, and as always there are some major attractions. First impressions: the Arabic programme looks great, broader than in past years. There’s a lot of accessible [… more]
Art Fair

Making more of Art Dubai

6 December 2022
Art Dubai has unveiled details of the programme and partnerships for its 16th edition, which runs 3 to 5 March 2023. It’s an impressively expanded portfolio that sits alongside the core art fair – “one of our strongest ever gallery [… more]
Art

SAF’s publishing grant winners

30 November 2022
Sharjah Art Foundation announced the winners of the 2022 Publishing Grant during this year’s Focal Point Art Book Fair last week – LIBERATION RADIO by Chimurenga; Between the Brush and the Archive by Abdullah Al-Mutairi; and The Spectre of Ancestors [… more]
Arts Centre

No more Warehouse in Warehouse421

23 November 2022
Abu Dhabi’s Warehouse421 has a new name (farewell Warehouse421, hello 421) and a new brand identity. Originally it aimed to provide “a dynamic space that could be home to exhibitions and events that our community sorely needed at the time”; [… more]
Art

Art Here here now

22 November 2022
The works by the 10 artists shortlisted for the $60,0000 Richard Mille Art Prize (winner to be announced early next year) are on show in the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Art Here 2022 exhibition until 19 February 2023. The exhibition is [… more]
Art

Christo winner unveiled

16 November 2022
The winning installation for The Christo and Jeanne-Claude Award 2022 has been unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art. Urban Fabric is a series of four sculptures conceptualised and built by NYUAD sophomore undergraduates Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Gerald Jason Cruz and Jennifer [… more]