UAE

Collector turns to social media to seek new spaces to house his rapidly growing Arab art collection

Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi posted a call out on social media offering to send out works from his Barjeel Art Foundation on long-term loan

Abdullah Al Saadi: 'My mother would use stones to signal to me that she had visited my studio'

The conceptual artist’s exhibition at the Biennale presents a series of works documenting his cycling journeys

Dubai’s art spaces venture beyond Alserkal Avenue

New galleries are opening up outside of the city’s traditional art hub—even in shopping malls

Dubai market shifts towards emerging homegrown artists

As the latest Art Dubai fair opens, the city's art scene is maturing, with international collectors and curators snapping up young Emirati artists

Emirati artists create public sculpture together after refusing to compete for the commission

Five artists collaborated on the sculpture, which has been unveiled outside Dubai's Etihad Museum

What's the score in a reputation economy? How the art world gets paid (or doesn't)

New technology, and old-world online reviews, have an impact on accounts and accountability in the art market

Richard Mille Art Prize shines a spotlight on the Gulf's burgeoning art scene

The ten shortlisted artist for this year's prize are showing work in the Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Art Dubaianalysis

Art Dub-AI: artificial intelligence is latest buzzword at fair

The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far

Art fairspreview

Amid property boom and influx of Russian cash, Art Dubai grows in size and scope—again

Dealers at the fair are hopeful for good sales, despite the prospect of a global recession

Sharjah Biennial 15 delivers important postcolonial narrative—but loses its experimental edge

Exhibition "Thinking Historically in the Present" in the United Arab Emirates is the final brainchild of the late Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor

Derelict ice factory in the desert transformed into UAE's newest contemporary art venue

Opening in time for the Sharjah Biennial, the Kalba Ice Factory building boasts 20,000 sq. m exhibition space

Perrotin is about to open its first Middle East space in a Dubai tax-free zone

The gallery will focus on secondary market deals with occasional contemporary art programming

Stephanie Rosenthal appointed project director for Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum

Current director of Gropius Bau will oversee opening of the long-awaited institution in the United Arab Emirates

Macron's Gulf tour: UAE's Louvre Abu Dhabi contract extended to 2047 and more French-Saudi culture deals

Renewal of Abu Dhabi deal means the Louvre can partner with the network of museums planned for Saudi Arabia's AlUla region

Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong sets new opening date for long-delayed Abu Dhabi museum

New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says "we can re-centre where the stories of art are told"

'A woman painting women': major show on colourful Algerian painter Baya explores her influence on Modernism

Exhibition of more than 70 of the artist's works at Sharjah Art Museum in the UAE includes rare works from her first ever show in 1947

Amid Covid-19 surge in UAE, Art Dubai fair moves dates and venue

Postponed fair will now host almost half as many galleries as heightened restrictions prevent international travel

UAEnews

First MFA programme and new Arab art centre boost Emirates art scene

New York University Abu Dhabi's postgraduate art course will start next autumn and cost $140,000 over two years

Virtual symposium streamed from United Arab Emirates explores why museums matter in the age of Covid

The webinar will feature speakers including Max Hollein and Mikhail Piotrovsky and will be co-hosted by Louvre Abu Dhabi and NYU Abu Dhabi

UAEnews

World's biggest canvas painting—the size of two football fields—to be auctioned in Dubai for charity

The record-breaking work by the Dubai-based British artist Sacha Jafri will be sold to promote "global digital equality"

Dubai news

Expo 2020 Dubai—the Arab world's biggest ever event—now likely to open in 2021 due to coronavirus

Major visual arts programme still planned for multidisciplinary culture and science showcase in the United Arab Emirates

Iraqnews

As protests rage in Iraq, experts say culture is key to long-term reconstruction

Iraqi culture ministry announces new national museum in Baghdad as Mosul restoration plan is extended to historic churches

Reem Fadda takes the reins at Abu Dhabi cultural foundation—but where is the emirate's Guggenheim?

Historic culture centre in UAE re-opens after 10 years with survey of trailblazing woman artist Najat Makki

Art fairspreview

From a change in sponsorship to new directorship, Art Dubai prepares to open after year of upheaval

Co-directors Pablo de Val and Chloe Vaitsou reshuffle the fair's layout and focus on art from the Global South with guest stars from Latin America

The women taking charge in the Gulf's rising art scene

With many of the region’s museums, fairs and festivals under female leadership, we talk to three key decision-makers

Louvre Abu Dhabi tops one million visitors in its first year

Leonardo da Vinci’s La Belle Ferronière will remain on loan to the museum for another year

Art Dubai appoints new international director Chloe Vaitsou, formerly of Frieze Fairs

Emirati fair says she will work alongside the artistic director in a move away from having a single leader

Aimee Dawson. with additional reporting by Anna Brady
UAEnews

British Museum rekindles relationship with Zayed National Museum after loan deal ended last year

Under new partnership, the London museum will lend key objects to the new institution in Abu Dhabi

Meet the Residents of Art Dubai's new section

In the project for the fair, 11 international artists are showing work inspired by a month’s stay in the UAE