DUBAI — April in Dubai has become the cornerstone of the Middle East’s cultural calendar, transforming the city into a buzzing creative forum where art takes center stage. In a city once known ...

At any other time, visitors to the annual Art Dubai fair might have mistaken the sleekly curved, glossy white hand sanitizers that lined the halls for an art installation. Interspersed between gallery ...

As fears of a global recession grip the world, a different atmosphere was witnessed on March 1 at the VIP opening of the 16th edition of Art Dubai in the United Arab Emirates’ sunny metropolis. It was ...

They’re some of the most glamorous events in the world, but the commercial art fair is in a tricky spot. In November last year, Endeavour, the owners of Frieze Art Fair, began looking for a potential ...

“Phygital art” may not be the most elegant phrase in the English language, but it is generating a buzz in certain circles. “Phygital” is a portmanteau of physical and digital – describing artworks ...

Positioned between Africa, Europe and Asia, Dubai is open to artistic and cultural influences from around the world. This has led to a vibrant, emerging local arts scene. Until recently, this scene ...

Dubai Public Libraries host 34+ creative workshops this February, from AI art and Arabic calligraphy to robot-building and ...

A view of Madinat Jumeirah with one of the balloon markers for Art Dubai floating above. (all images by the author for Hyperallergic) DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Shopping, real estate, luxury, and ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — It might be hard to imagine that only a few decades ago the conventional history of modern art was overwhelmingly Eurocentric, but when I was in college in the 1990s the ...

Art Dubai, the Middle East's largest annual contemporary art fair, has featured for the first time digital works, as the wealthy Gulf emirate seeks to position itself as a crypto-assets hub. This year ...

DUBAI—While most art expositions disappeared or migrated online during the pandemic, Art Dubai, the largest art fair in the Middle East, took the plunge this week and allowed thousands of art ...