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Director Katy Chang's Glitter Dust: Finding Art in Dubai is a documentary about cultural integration and immigration through the lens of the Dubai art scene. [10] The film features Dubai-based artists Shaqayeq Arabi, Vivek Premachandran (UBIK) and Hazem Mahdi, with commentary from art historian Marcelo Lima and others. Chang runs the Twitter ...
Alserkal Avenue in 2024. Alserkal Avenue is an industrial compound hosting warehouses in the industrial zone of Al Quoz, in Dubai.The area is an arts and culture district for Dubai with lineup of galleries, facilities and platforms, such as Alserkal Avenue that houses residencies for local and global artists.
He founded Marsam Mattar, the first art gallery in the United Arab Emirates to be managed by an artist. [1] [2] Bin Lahej is also the artist and calligrapher behind the facade on the museum of the future, making it one of the most prominent buildings and structures in Dubai and is described as "the only building that speaks Arabic" [3]
A.I.R Dubai: an annual art residency for artists and curators in the UAE and elsewhere, to be based in Al Fahidi Historical Neighborhood to work together and produce new work. [4] SIKKA Art Fair: an annual happening showcasing emerging artists from the UAE in the field of visual arts, performances, music and film. [5]
2015: Hosted in Pro Art Gallery and Street Art Gallery Dubai in the month of May and curated by Xenia Gazi. [3] [4] [5]2014: Hosted in Pro Art Gallery Dubai [6] and which included original works artists such as Picasso, Andy Warhol, Salvador Dalí, Roy Lichtenstein, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy curated along 40 emerging artists from the UAE curated by Ram Nath.
Tashkeel is an art facility in the United Arab Emirates.Established in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in 2008 by Lateefa bint Maktoum. [4] [5]Operating on an open membership model, Tashkeel's annual programme of training, residencies, [6] workshops, [7] talks, exhibitions, [8] international collaborations and publications aims to further practitioner development, public engagement, lifelong ...
By the time Sharif left the UAE in 1979 to pursue a formal art education, he had actively rejected calligraphic abstraction and Arab Nationalism, both of which were the dominant discourse in the region at that time, as well as the ‘negative irony’ of his early cartoons. "I had had some experience from creating the Caricatures but when I ...
Art Dubai Modern, established in 2014, is devoted to modern art from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Each exhibitor presents a solo, two-person or multi-artist show, featuring works by modern art masters of the 20th century, with a focus on work produced between the 1940s and 1980s.