{"id":70784,"date":"2026-08-18T18:26:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=70784"},"modified":"2026-08-18T18:26:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:26:01","slug":"70784","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/70784\/","title":{"rendered":"<markCLOSING TODAY<\/mark> Hisham Sharif: Allusive Veil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharif\u2019s first solo exhibition in the UAE presents an autobiographical and very personal series of works about the struggles of private and artist life in a closed society \u2013 &#8220;a vulnerable, nuanced presentation of life\u201d. The Bahraini artist uses colour to convey privacy and intimacy, &#8220;expressive hues that meld harsh truths with illusions of what could be &#8230; Sharif\u2019s approach ensures that his depiction of these taboos is conveyed through humble depictions that preserve a certain Oriental sensibility, avoiding the shock value or censorship they might otherwise provoke. The scenes are all about ambiance, a haze of what was, what is, and what could be&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Sharif\u2019s first solo exhibition in the UAE presents an autobiographical and very personal series of works about the struggles of private and artist life in a closed society \u2013 &#8220;a vulnerable, nuanced presentation of life\u201d. The Bahraini artist uses colour <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/70784\/\" title=\"\"> [&#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-70784","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\/70784","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\/70784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70784"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=70784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}