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UAE Sentenced a Palestinian Artist to Death for Drug Possession

by Hakim Bishara April 22, 2022April 25, 2022

The artist maintains she was framed after an Emirati police search found half a kilogram of cocaine in her Dubai apartment.

Posted inNews

First-ever Exhibition of Israeli Artists in the UAE Faces Calls for Boycott

by Hakim Bishara April 11, 2021April 9, 2021

“Opening the first exhibition of Israeli artists in the region is yet another attempt to popularize normalization.”

Posted inArt

From Palestine to New York and Back Again: On the Life and Work of Samia Halaby

Avatar photo by Dorian Batycka May 2, 2019May 2, 2019

In the purportedly liberal realm of the art world, an artist like Samia Halaby is certainly deserving of closer attention.

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Fingerprint of Dubai Ruler Becomes the Ominous Foundation of New Skyscraper

Avatar photo by Deena ElGenaidi February 6, 2019

A proposed supertall building in Dubai will use the fingerprint of the Emirate ruler to make its mark.

Posted inArt

In Dubai, an Exhibition Probes the Oil Industry’s Impact on Middle Eastern Society

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier December 17, 2018December 17, 2018

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.

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Art Jameel Unveils Plans for Complex in Dubai, Launches Acquisition Fund for Metropolitan Museum

by Ari Akkermans March 15, 2017March 21, 2017

A new arts complex in Dubai may suggest a new direction for contemporary art in the UAE.

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Dubai Pop-up Gallery Cashes In on Palmyra Tragedy

by Ari Akkermans September 22, 2015September 23, 2015

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.

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Contemporary Photography’s Capitalist Realism

by Jörg Colberg March 21, 2015March 26, 2015

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.

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Dubai Is Building a Museum of the Future

by Laura C. Mallonee March 5, 2015March 5, 2015

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.

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The World’s First Climate-Controlled City Is On the Way

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian July 11, 2014

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.

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A Perspectival Shift at Art Dubai 2014

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian March 26, 2014March 29, 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]

by Mostafa Heddaya December 3, 2013December 5, 2013

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.

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