Marker

ART DUBAI Marker is Art Dubai‘s curated programme of galleries and artspaces, which focuses each year on a particular theme or geography. This section aims to exemplify the fair’s role as a site of discovery and cross-cultural exchange, and is a feature of Art Dubai’s extensive not-for-profit programming. In 2014, Marker focuses on Central Asia …

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Depero e la pubblicità al Mar di Aosta

Depero e la pubblicità al Mar di Aosta Dopo il successo dell’appuntamento con Ugo Nespolo, proseguono gli incontri di approfondimento sulla mostra Universo Depero organizzati dall’Assessorato Istruzione e Cultura della Regione autonoma Valle d’Aosta. Il prossimo appuntamento è previsto per venerdì 21 marzo (ore 17,30, ingresso libero) nella sede del Museo Archeologico Regionale di Aosta …

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Reza Aramesh: The Whistle of the Souls, a play that never starts

Aramesh‘s site specific exhibition centers on a single figure sculpted in white marble, entitled Action 137:6:45pm, 3May2012, Ramla. Installed in a warehouse on the edge of Dubai’s industrial neighborhood, the work is intended as a proposal for a public sculpture. An adjacent slide projection piece, entitled Action136:’Put this in your record: I’m present’ further demonstrates …

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Film

 ART DUBAI   Art Dubai Film presents a program of video and films by and about artists. Besides artists’ video shown in the gallery booths, the programme has included The Hatch, showing artists’ film and video in curated, thematic programmes. Moving Images is a new partnership between Dubai International Film Festival, Sharjah Art Foundationand Art …

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Sikka

Sikka Art Fair is an annual showcase of Emirati and Dubai-based artistic talent designed to feature UAE contemporary art practices and initiatives, through a diversity of artistic talent and stance, providing opportunity to experience home-grown creativity at its liveliest and best, in the heart of Dubai. Sikka draws its name from the alleyways between the …

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Customs Made: Quotidian Practices and Everyday Rituals

Devotional, personal, prescribed, subversive or self-invented, our everyday rituals breathe identity, belonging, community, and a sense of order into our daily lives. We practice them in public open areas, as well as in private intimate spaces behind closed doors. Artistic engagement with everyday rituals provides a fascinating looking glass onto contemporary society’s changing landscape, conferring a …

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5 Years of Unisex

The cARTel Fashion Showroom to celebrate its one-year anniversary in its gallery space in Al-Serkal Avenue, with the Fashion Exhibition Opening of Visionary Fashion Designer Rad Hourani, titled ‘5 Years of unisex’. Stemming from Rad’s curiosity and drive to transcend conventional fashion, the exhibition features photographs, sketches and fashion installations resonating Rad Hourani’s breakthrough in creating …

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In Praise of Hands

Maison Van Cleef & Arpels is proud to be the luxury sponsor and partner of Design Days Dubai for the third consecutive year. A unique concept in the Middle East, this fair is dedicated to bring the most exclusive purchasable and limited-edition designs to the region. Famed for its exceptional creations and virtuoso craftsmanship, the Maison …

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Concluso il restauro delle Grotte dell’Isola Bella

COMPLETATO IL RESTAURO DELLE “GROTTE” DI  PALAZZO BORROMEO ALL’ISOLA BELLA Restaurati arredi, marmi e i celebri finimenti da parata In uscita una piccola ed elegante pubblicazione con testi di Marco Carminati e immagini di Massimo Listri Il 22 marzo, primo giorno di primavera, si aprono le visite sia all’Isola Bella che all’Isola Madre, oltre che …

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Fundamentals

In a press conference full of journalists and institutions’ representatives, Paolo Baratta, President of La Biennale di Venezia, and Rem Koolhas, the appointed Director for the 2014 Architecture Biennial, presented the programme and structure of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition, entitled Fundamentals.   “With Rem Koolhaas, our aim is to create an exceptional, research-centred Architecture …

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