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The inaugural Dubai Festival of Lights, organised by Emaar Properties, in partnership with the City of Lyon's Festival of Lights (Fête des Lumières de Lyon), in its flagship mega-development Downtown Dubai, is offering a spellbinding experience for visitors with more than 30 spectacular lighting and artistic installations, until March 29, 2014.
Mar 20, 2014
The HIPA Grand Event Ceremony in Dubai presented stunning photography by top artists and a spectacular programme from the Third Season 2013-2014 within the next categories: Creating the Future, General, Black and White and Street Life, as well as the Grand Prize and the Special Awards for important contribution to photography.
Mar 18, 2014
SIKKA Art Fair, the contemporary artist-led fair of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority (Dubai Culture), the Emirate’s dedicated Authority for culture, arts, and heritage, has opened on March 16, 2014 with a multicultural and compelling showcase of artworks and the largest line-up of activities to date.
Mar 16, 2014
Both men to respectively receive HIPA’s Photography Appreciation Award and Photographic Research/Report Award at its 3rd annual awards ceremony.
Mar 11, 2014
On April 5, 2014, Florence Number Nine will inaugurate the Islamic Art Department with an auction entirely dedicated to Islamic Art, the first of its kind to be held in Italy!
Mar 10, 2014
The first UK solo exhibition by Palestinian artist Steve Sabella opened at BERLONI. As an artist who has lived in constant ‘mental exile’, Sabella seeks to photographically record and stabilise the very dislocation, that a Jerusalem born individual seemingly eternally ‘on the road’ has encountered.
Mar 07, 2014
"The conceptual ambiguity of the resulting patterns, a theme also represented in the large projects I have created over the years, create an interactive experience in which the onlooker’s subjective experiences of alienation and belonging become part of the piece and its identity." (Anila Quayyum Agha)
Mar 04, 2014
Sabrina Amrani Gallery attends for the first time an art fair in London, participating in the section London First of Art14 London, presenting art from South Asian artists along with works by Arab Mediterranean artists. From the minimal handmade drawings by Waqas Khan (Pakistan) to the high end special effects videos by Larissa Sansour (Palestine), through the elegant painting on glass by Nicène Kossentini (Tunisia) and the ongoing series of memorial plaques with absurd open ended statements by UBIK (India).
Mar 02, 2014
Carbon 12 is proud to announce their first participation at the 32nd edition of Art Brussels with Sara Rahbar and Ralf Ziervogel.
Mar 01, 2014
Maraya Art Centre, the innovative contemporary visual arts hub and initiative by the Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) – hosted the fourth edition of the popular and innovative PechaKucha Night Sharjah.
Feb 24, 2014
Pro Art Gallery to showcase selected artworks by renowned contemporary Iranian artist Hossein Irandoust
Feb 23, 2014
Nargess Hashemi’s work is characterized by its biting, yet loving take on ordinariness. Using commonplace materials like felt pens, acetate, tracing and wrapping paper, the young artist’s scenes of everyday family life express both quietude and anxiety and depict a world in which affect and memory and dream and reality often overlap. The references to Iran are many, from the figures drawn from Qajar-era painting to the styles of clothing or domestic architecture depicted. Pattern was inevitably always present, but it has become the dominant and sole theme in Hashemi’s new carpet series on view in 'The Pleasure in Boredom' (January 12 – February 27, 2014), her current solo show at the Isabelle van den Eynde Gallery in Dubai.
Feb 22, 2014
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