Art
Getting geared up for Art Week
Art Week is back for its ninth edition, the region’s largest cultural festival that pivots on the somewhat specialised atmosphere of Art Dubai but extends its reach across three Emirates – Abu and Sharjah as […]
Festival
The practical side of LitFest
The Publishing Programme is one of the elements of the ongoing Emirates Airline Festival of Literature that doesn’t get enough attention: it’s also one of the features of LitFest that looks ripe for development. That’s […]
Music
Global sounds from Nigeria, Sudan, Egypt, and Turkey: Barzakh returns
The Barzakh Festival is again returning to The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi, on 6 and 8 March. Barzakh’s programmers position the festival as a marker for the way the UAE is becoming a […]
Art
Nadia Christidi announced as winner of Art Jameel Commissions: Arts Writing and Research
The winner of 2019’s Art Jameel Commissions has been named as Nadia Christidi. This year’s Art Jameel Commissions was for Arts Writing and Research (the award cycles round various disciplines); Christidi receives a three-month residency […]
Festival
LitFest present and future: what Ahlam Bolooki thinks
Earlier this year the Emirates Literature Foundation announced two new senior appointments to the LitFest team: Jennifer Malton took on the role of Chief Operating Officer, and Ahlam Bolooki became the Festival Director in succession […]
Architecture
Phase 2 of Dubai Design District paused for a rethink
The second phase of the Dubai Design District masterplan has been paused and will be reworked “to meet the changing needs of both the city of Dubai and the wider demands of the existing and […]
Poetry
Four poets do Dubai …
What makes a poet? We asked four of the poets reading at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature’s Desert Stanzas evening about the value of poetry, their motivations and their inspirations … Frank Dullaghan An […]
Art
A Rembrandt for Louvre Abu Dhabi
Louvre Abu Dhabi will be unveiling a new acquisition in its Rembrandt, Vermeer & the Dutch Golden Age exhibition opening on Thursday 14 February. Head of a young man, with clasped hands is an oil […]
Festival
25 to hear: magpie’s picks from LitFest
This year the Emirates Airlines Festival of Literature provides an unmissable chance to see and hear from more than 175 writers across a variety of genres and a variety of subjects. Many (but not all) […]
Dance
Dance of life: Company Wayne McGregor at The Arts Center NYUAD
There’s a long and (usually) distinguished tradition of science overlapping with art. True, it’s usually science or technology overlapping with design or fine art – from Renaissance man Leonardo to Marc Quinn, from Turner and […]
