{"id":68650,"date":"2026-04-20T19:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=68650"},"modified":"2026-06-11T22:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T18:46:15","slug":"last-chance-supermarket","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-supermarket\/","title":{"rendered":"<mark>CLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Supermarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A great idea from Foundry Downtown \u2013 a group exhibition featuring artists based in the UAE who are not (currently) represented by galleries. The organisers describe it as \u201cfor the first time, a selling exhibition structured around accessibility, discovery, and dialogue. The project seeks to encourage a broader public to engage with contemporary art with greater confidence and curiosity, while offering artists an opportunity to present their work in a context that is both visible and commercially supportive \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In that context, the title represents a quite deliberate borrowing from retail \u2013 though the curators are keen to emphasise that doesn\u2019t mean crudely reducing art to merchandise rather than \u201ccritically asking what it means to \u2018shop\u2019 for art at a moment when value is shaped not only by artistic quality, but also by visibility, narrative, and systems of legitimacy\u201d. Still, it <em>is<\/em> a selling exhibition, with works at \u201can accessible price point\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">A great idea from Foundry Downtown \u2013 a group exhibition featuring artists based in the UAE who are not (currently) represented by galleries. The organisers describe it as \u201cfor the first time, a selling exhibition structured around accessibility, discovery, and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/last-chance-supermarket\/\" title=\"CLOSING TODAY Supermarket\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[50,96],"class_list":["post-68650","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","tribe_events_cat-art","tribe_events_cat-exhibition","cat_art","cat_exhibition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/68650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68650"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=68650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}