
DUBAI / On March 19th 2012 the galleries at Alserkal Avenue will yet again open their doors to the community with more galleries than ever before; sharing its vision and creating an opportunity for the art lovers to meet the artists, gallerists and others alike.

A successful public appeal to raise $100,000 will see two extraordinary Persian manuscripts join Australia’s finest Rare Book Collection at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne.

8 -11 March, 2012 / The Third Line makes its debut in New York at the Independent Art Fair with a selection of works from Hayv Kahraman, Laleh Khorramian, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian and Slavs and Tatars.

An Interview with Abdul Waheed Khalili, director of Kabul’s Turquoise Mountain Foundation.

The exhibition “Worlds within Worlds: Imperial Paintings from India and Iran” is a highlight of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2012 (July 28 - Sep 17, 2012). The exhibition will bring 50 of the finest folios and paintings from the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery collections, which together form one of the world’s most important repositories of Mughal and Persian painting.