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The Middle East’s best buildings?

10 November 2025

The inaugural RIBA Middle East Awards were handed out during Dubai Design Week. The qualifications are pretty generous – submissions had to have been completed between July 2020 and July 2024 by a qualified architect (not necessarily an RIBA architect) [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.08 / 06 Nov 2025

6 November 2025

The quote: Literature has the same impact as a match lit in the middle of a field in the middle of the night. The match illuminates relatively little, but it enables us to see how much darkness surrounds it William Faulkner [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.07 / 30 Oct 2025

30 October 2025

The quote Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late Benjamin Franklin Dubai gets a museum too The big news in Dubai this week was the announcement of DUMA, the Dubai Museum of Art. So far there’s [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.06 / 23 Oct 2025

23 October 2025

The quote It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good Paula Scher ZNM opens RSN The Zayed National Museum will open its doors to the public on 3 December – more than 3,000 artefacts in the [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.05 / 16 Oct 2025

16 October 2025

The quote Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction Francis Picabia It’s the end of Abu Dhabi Art as we know it Having established itself as the biggest regional art fair of 2025, Abu Dhabi Art will have just one more edition [… more]

Frieze helps to heat up the Gulf art market

15 October 2025

Abu Dhabi Art has joined the Frieze group as the result of a deal that will see Abu Dhabi Art become Frieze Abu Dhabi from next year’s edition. The partnership agreement is between DCT Abu Dhabi (which is responsible for [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.04 / 9 Oct 2025

9 October 2025

The quote Every day you live, you make a difference. You matter. You’re here for a reason. Find the reason. And do your bit. Then, we can save the world Jane Goodall Critical choice Sharjah Art Foundation has named the five [… more]

Art Basel details galleries and artists

9 October 2025

Art Basel Qatar has listed the 87 galleries that will participate in its inaugural edition, due to run 5-7 February at M7 and the Doha Design District. The fair, the fifth to bear the Art Basel label, is a joint [… more]

magpie Weekly issue 7.03 / 2 Oct 2025

2 October 2025

The quote: I recommend the freedom that comes from asking: “Compared to what?” Gloria Steinem Catch ’em while you can Today and tomorrow (1 and 2 October) Abu Dhabi’s Bassam Freiha Art Foundation is hosting the first public fine art show [… more]

Why Shakespeare works

1 October 2025

One of the characteristics of Shakespeare’s plays, especially the tragedies, is the way their themes so easily cross boundaries of time and place. They can speak to us, even though the words as written are delivered by people we don’t [… more]