Culture
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Your Guide To Al Serkal Must-See Exhibitions This Autumn, Part 3
The last six exhibitions you need on your Alserkal radar this autumn
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What Do 1,000 Porsches In One Place Look Like?
We will get a chance to find out this November, when Icons of Porsche returns to Dubai
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, October 6–11
From an exhibition built around private thoughts to a run that starts painfully early
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How Artists Are Reimagining The Prayer Mat
See how artists turn the prayer mat into something entirely unexpected
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Saudi Arabia’s New Creative Class: Turning Culture Into Business
Meet the designers and studios making clothes, spaces and careers out of cultural curiosity
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Arab Identity, Rethought Through Performance
Untitled 14km and Näss rethink Arab identity from two very different angles
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Your Guide To Alserkal’s Must-See Exhibitions This Autumn, Part 2
Relationships as flowers, memories as butterflies and silence as art: here are another five exhibitions to visit
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, September 29–October 4
New exhibitions, Persian food, pocket theatre and a lot of vinyl
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How Do You Curate an Art Movement When Parts of Its History Are Missing?
At NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery, “All Manner of Experiments” asks what survives when history loses pieces
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How The Arts Center At NYU Abu Dhabi Helped Build Abu Dhabi’s Performing Arts Scene
Inside the institution that helped make contemporary performance a regular part of life in Abu Dhabi
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Your Guide To Alserkal’s Must-See Exhibitions This Autumn, Part 1
Alserkal has opened 16 exhibitions this autumn. We are diving into them one by one
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What If the Earth Remembers Everything? Inside Ishara Art Foundation’s New Exhibition
A flooded village, the Sun and one changing corner of Dhaka come together in a new Dubai exhibition
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, September 22–28
Alserkal Avenue is reopening its galleries, Secta is closing summer season, and more
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Your Egyptian Folklore Crash Course, Told Through Four Artworks
Amira Tanany, a Saudi-Egyptian artist, explains the cultural and personal layers behind her work
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How To Visit a Mosque In the UAE: Dress Code, Etiquette And What To Expect
A practical guide to visiting UAE mosques respectfully
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What To Read From the Arab World: Contemporary Middle Eastern Authors To Know
Discover Arab writers bringing family stories, fantasy, folklore and fashion into contemporary Middle Eastern reading
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MENA Local Heroes: Listen Now To the Fifth Edition By Karen Beyrouty
A visual, nostalgic and slightly romantic playlist for old souls, dreamers and people who feel too much
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Your Week In Dubai: What To Do, September 15–21
Art, pasta, Kusama, and a very good party (actually, anti-party)
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Pine Tree As the Thread Between Two Worlds: Inside Beirut’s New Exhibition
Curator Muriel Asmar takes us inside Echoes of Existence, sharing the stories behind the works
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Inside Precarious Beings: Your Exhibition Homework, Done
Talking to the artist behind Tashkeel’s new exhibition, on view until October 11