News
UAE Sentenced a Palestinian Artist to Death for Drug Possession
The artist maintains she was framed after an Emirati police search found half a kilogram of cocaine in her Dubai apartment.
Dubai
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First-ever Exhibition of Israeli Artists in the UAE Faces Calls for Boycott
“Opening the first exhibition of Israeli artists in the region is yet another attempt to popularize normalization.”
Art
From Palestine to New York and Back Again: On the Life and Work of Samia Halaby
In the purportedly liberal realm of the art world, an artist like Samia Halaby is certainly deserving of closer attention.
In Brief
Fingerprint of Dubai Ruler Becomes the Ominous Foundation of New Skyscraper
A proposed supertall building in Dubai will use the fingerprint of the Emirate ruler to make its mark.
Test 2018 posts
In Dubai, an Exhibition Probes the Oil Industry’s Impact on Middle Eastern Society
In the Jameel Arts Centre's inaugural exhibit, 17 artists explore how the discovery of oil in the Arab region has both harmed and benefited the people living there.
News
Art Jameel Unveils Plans for Complex in Dubai, Launches Acquisition Fund for Metropolitan Museum
A new arts complex in Dubai may suggest a new direction for contemporary art in the UAE.
In Brief
Dubai Pop-up Gallery Cashes In on Palmyra Tragedy
The exhibition Once Upon a Time Palmyra: The Pearl of the Desert at Portfolio, with photography by Emmanuel Catteau, owner of the space, capitalizes on the recent Palmyra-related and features his 2006 snapshots from the historic site.
Books
Contemporary Photography's Capitalist Realism
In Caspar David Friedrich's “Frau vor untergehender Sonne” (“Woman before the Rising Sun”), a young woman is depicted facing the rising sun, which turns her almost completely, but not entirely, into a silhouette.
In Brief
Dubai Is Building a Museum of the Future
Robot dogs, humanoid giants, holograms, and laser lights. That's what "the future" looks like, at least according to architectural renderings recently released by the United Arab Emirates for its impending Museum of the Future.
In Brief
The World's First Climate-Controlled City Is On the Way
Dubai is a city of superlatives, so it is no surprise that the city will be home to a new project that is being trumpeted as both the world's largest mall and the world's first climate-controlled city.
Art
A Perspectival Shift at Art Dubai 2014
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Shopping, real estate, luxury, and massive scale are the things most people expect to find in Dubai, but one thing that this city affords you that may be unexpected is perspective.
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Doubled Dutchman Drubs Dubai in Duplicate Duckie Debacle [UPDATED]
This duck tale is no canard: An Emirates car wash is in hot water after deploying a maritime facsimile of Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck — "Rubber Duck" (2009) — as a marketing stunt.