Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund to acquire minority stake in Sotheby's

Patrick Drahi will remain auction house's majority shareholder in $1bn deal, as ADQ buys shares to "reduce leverage" and support "growth and innovation"

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Abu Dhabi’s Saadiyat Cultural District on track for completion in 2025

Four more large museums, including the Zayed National Museum and Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, will open alongside the Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Guggenheim picks a leader from NYU Abu Dhabi as its next director—the first woman to head the institution

Mariët Westermann, the first woman to take a leadership role of this magnitude with the museum, will oversee the expansion of the Guggenheim in Abu Dhabi

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Rand Abdul Jabbar wins the second Richard Mille Art Prize

Artist was awarded the $60,000 prize in a ceremony at the Louvre Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi: six of the emirate's best arts and culture institutions

As the Richard Mille Art Prize enters its second year at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, we take a look at some of the organisations that are helping to sustain the arts and culture communities

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Richard Mille Art Prize shines a spotlight on the Gulf's burgeoning art scene

The ten shortlisted artist for this year's prize are showing work in the Louvre Abu Dhabi

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Crop circles: Shaikha Al Mazrou's focus on materials and man-made marks

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Ayman Zedani: examining the future of the Gulf—through whale song

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Vikram Divecha on his ambitious proposal—a museum of walls

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Zeinab Alhashemi on bringing camels—and camel breeder culture—into the contemporary art scene

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Simrin Mehra-Agarwal on how her work as a technical diver inspires her art

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Rand Abdul Jabbar: 'Iraq is a clay culture—my choice to work with ceramics is linked to that lineage'

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Habits, hair and hardware stores: Afra Al Dhaheri on her artistic inspirations

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Manal AlDowayan—one of Saudi Arabia's best known artists—on moving from beautiful aesthetics to harsh concepts

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Elizabeth Dorazio: 'The unpredictability of nature guides my work'

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Dana Awartani on using craft—which is 'seen as a bad word'—in her art

We meet the artist nominated for the Richard Mille Art Prize

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Are Abu Dhabi, Shenzhen and Doha the new culture capitals? A new study says so

The number of new museums, opera houses and theatres in ambitious and cash-rich Asian and Middle Eastern countries outstrips those in Europe and the US

From Christie’s to the United Arab Emi-Rex: record-smashing Tyrannosaurus fossil to be star of new Abu Dhabi museum

The massive ‘Stan’ skeleton is one of two major scientific discoveries destined for the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi on Saadiyat Island

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Abu Dhabi plans two new museums in addition to Guggenheim and Zayed

Announcement was made at yesterday's preview of Abu Dhabi Art 2021, where cultural leaders were keen to emphasise their commitment to the emirate following its strict lockdown

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Paintings and African art to dominate at Abu Dhabi Art

Emirati art fair expects lots of US collectors as international visits to Dubai Expo give "a really good indication that people have the confidence to travel again"

Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong sets new opening date for long-delayed Abu Dhabi museum

New deputy director Naomi Beckwith says "we can re-centre where the stories of art are told"

London gallery hub Cromwell Place partners with Abu Dhabi Art fair to show emerging artists

Fair will show works by Emirati artists Hind Mezaina, Afra Al Dhaheri and Afra Al Suwaidi in South Kensington this June

Abu Dhabi’s next mega museum is back on track—now with a director

UAE’s withdrawal from a disastrous and costly war in Yemen means it can refocus on an ambitious cultural agenda including the opening of Zayed National Museum

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First MFA programme and new Arab art centre boost Emirates art scene

New York University Abu Dhabi's postgraduate art course will start next autumn and cost $140,000 over two years

British architect David Adjaye to build a church, mosque and synagogue on a united site near the Louvre Abu Dhabi

The future House of Abrahamic religions in Abu Dhabi shows how the UAE differs from Saudi Arabia

Art Basel cancels $15,000 per ticket Abu Dhabi conference

The first Art Basel Inside was due to take place in February 2020, over the same dates as Frieze Los Angeles

Reem Fadda takes the reins at Abu Dhabi cultural foundation—but where is the emirate's Guggenheim?

Historic culture centre in UAE re-opens after 10 years with survey of trailblazing woman artist Najat Makki

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is 'on track, on budget', director Richard Armstrong says

Construction on the long-delayed project is expected to take three to four years

Austrian company behind Louvre Abu Dhabi dome is insolvent after non-payment

Spiralling costs of museum project chiefly to blame for bankruptcy, say press reports