The winner of the 2018 Dyson Award for the UAE – the first time the country has entered the competition – is an improved wheelchair for disabled air travellers. The Air Chair enables individuals with […]
Art Jameel has announced the programmng for the much-anticipated Jameel Arts Centre, the first independent ‘cultural destination’ in Dubai. Due to open on 11 November, it’s a three-storey multi-role development over 10,000-square metres of Creekside […]
The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi has been refining its offer in the last year or so. First came priced tickets, which fixed one of the problems with freebies (no-shows) and helped out with […]
“The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi announces the postponement of the unveiling of Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi,” said the tweet on Monday 3 September. “More details will be announced soon.” The […]
As a young country, the UAE needs a sense of continuity in its iconography. The barasti, barjeels and sand dunes all provide a link with a kind of past; but between those traditions and the […]
There are few occasions when it’s possible to be at a groundbreaking event in the arts, and know in advance that it’s going to be really important. Those last Velvet Underground gigs at Max’s Kansas […]
Dubai Design District has announced its Design for Good programme, seeking to “support and promote social change in the UAE through the design community”. Two projects will be rolled out in 2018. One has already […]
Art Jameel is ramping up its presence in Dubai ahead of the much-anticipated 11 November opening of the Jameel Arts Centre on Dubai Creek. One example is the appointment of a communications team in the […]
DUCTAC, the theatre and arts centre on top of Mall of the Emirates, has closed. Hopefully it’s a temporary suspension; a statement on the website (actually, it’s the only thing on the website at the […]
Architectural academic and practitioner Amin Alsaden (right) has been appointed the director of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, the first major platform dedicated to architecture and urbanism in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. […]
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