This week’s editorial musings
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The quote:<\/mark><\/strong> I write entirely to find out what I\u2019m thinking, what I\u2019m looking at, what I see and what it means, what I want and what I fear\u00a0Joan Didion …<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Art Dubai intro info<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0Design Miami<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(“the global forum for collectible design”) opened a couple of days ago, and at the\u00a0fair\u2019s launch came the news that\u00a0early 2027<\/strong>\u00a0will see the launch of \u201ca new regional platform for collectible design\u201d in Dubai. It\u2019s\u00a0a partnership between Design Miami and Alserkal<\/strong>, and will be based around a flagship design fair plus year-round programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The press release isn’t very specific but talks about creating \u201ca platform for a global exchange of ideas and “establishing Dubai as an international destination for collectible design”. Design Miami has been putting high-end galleries and designers in front of collectors for two decades in Miami and latterly in Paris too; the aim is to add Dubai as a third hub, presumably to show local design to a wider audience while bringing those buyers to the UAE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to Alserkal, design-related activity already accounts for 52% of the city\u2019s cultural GDP.Alserkal’s Vilma Jurkute<\/strong><\/a> called the deal with Design Miami \u201ca natural trajectory\u201d for Alserkal and described design as \u201cthe next chapter in [Alserkal\u2019s] growth\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s interesting that Art Dubai Group<\/a><\/strong>, which runs Dubai Design Week<\/strong><\/a>, last year introduced a Design-Miami-like extra in the form of the Editions<\/strong><\/a>element for collectable design. Art Dubai isn\u2019t involved in the partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There aren’t any other details, and certainly not location. Dubai is a bit short of design-fair-sized spaces once d3<\/strong><\/a> is ruled out, and Art Dubai seems to have that sewn up …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Affordable Dubai<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0Can you afford Dubai? This\u00a0calculator site<\/strong><\/a> is designed to help people thinking of moving to Dubai\u00a0decide whether the package they are being offered is worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you decide you need to get out of town, NewLife<\/strong><\/a> might help \u2013 it’s free tool that helps you decide where to relocate by comparing the cost of living, quality of life and cultural fit between any two places in the world …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slopping out\u00a0<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong> Everyone hates\u00a0the flood of AI slop in search results.\u00a0Tega Brain<\/strong><\/a>, Australian artist\/environmental engineer\/Asst Prof of Integrated Digital Media at NYU, did something about it:\u00a0Slop Evader<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a search extension for Chrome and Firefox (works with Google, YouTube, Reddit and more) that will only return results created before Nov 2022 \u2013 ChatGPT’s first public release. So no AI-generated results\u00a0…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tonight’s the night<\/mark>\u00a0<\/strong>There’s still time to get along to the\u00a0Laughter Factory’s Christmas Party<\/strong><\/a>(first of three); or the\u00a0UAE Youth Orchestra and Choir<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at Abu Dhabi’s Cultural Foundation for an End of Season Celebration …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Useful app of the week<\/mark><\/strong><\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0Director<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is like the\u00a0Lovable<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0vibe coder but for web automation workflows: use a prompt to automate almost any task on the web. Takes a while to see what it can and can’t do, but it’s worth perservering\u00a0…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Something for the weekend<\/mark><\/strong> Clues By Sam<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0invites you\u00a0to figure out who is a wrong ‘un and who is innocent. You can’t convict someone based on a 50\/50 hunch \u2013 there is always a logical next choice, even when you think there isn’t.\u00a0Try it here<\/a>\u00a0…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Things we didn\u2019t know no.94<\/mark><\/strong>\u00a0One of\u00a0the first ever Velvet Underground gigs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was entertaining the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry …<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earworm of the week<\/mark> <\/strong>African Head Charge : Microdosing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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