Tag: United Arab Emirates
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Sharjah March Meeting 2025: To Carry Songs
Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual symposium this year explored how culture is preserved and shared within communities
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Sharjah March Meeting 2024: Tawashjuat
This year’s edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s March meeting focused on collectives, collaboration and social justice, a theme that had particular poignance in light of the war in Gaza
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Leila Heller – interview: ‘The Upper East Side is hot again and I love being back’
Gallerist Leila Heller talks about showing Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat in the 1980s, after meeting them in New York clubs, promoting artists from the Middle East, her current show curated by Warhol’s muse – and why she has just…
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Louvre Abu Dhabi, designed by Jean Nouvel
Jean Nouvel has conceived a masterful new structure for the Louvre Abu Dhabi, at once utterly modern in its technical and environmental specifications, but beautifully attuned to the ancient Arabic sense of place, and affinities with geometry and astronomy
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Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum: ‘I am a veiled woman, so it’s a natural process to have veiled women in my work’
The founder of Tashkeel, Dubai’s first public studio space for artists, talks about her hopes for the centre, being a role model for young women in Dubai, and how being a mother has changed her pace of work
