Lower price points and Dubai's enduring status as a tax haven buoyed sales

Group behind the UAE's biggest fair has selected Alexie Glass-Kantor as executive director, curatorial, and Dunja Gottweis as fair director

The fair's Global South focus enables galleries to platform art about Palestine at a crucial moment

The conceptual artist talks about representing the United Arab Emirates at this year’s Venice Biennale with work documenting his travels

New galleries are opening up outside of the city’s traditional art hub—even in shopping malls

The curator of this year's Art Dubai's Modern section shares her highlights

As the latest Art Dubai fair opens, the city's art scene is maturing, with international collectors and curators snapping up young Emirati artists

From Cartier's Islamic inspiration at the Louvre Abu Dhabi to Pakistani artist and activist Lala Rukh at the Sharjah Art Foundation

The boom in digital art tokens may have turned to bust, but the Dubai fair is putting them front and centre as the NFT market in the city flourishes

The Art Jameel founder tells us how he juggles collecting for himself and for the foundation

Five artists collaborated on the sculpture, which has been unveiled outside Dubai's Etihad Museum

The coming year has buttons for everyone to press including a celebration of the computer artist Harold Cohen and Art Dubai Digital

With the power to show works simultaneously in different countries, digital art does not really need to "be" anywhere. But where it is being created, exhibited and funded has a deep impact on how the work is made

Plus, How Video Transformed the World at MoMA and the art of modernist ceramics

The event's 16th edition has an expanded digital section—here’s what sold so far

Dealers at the fair are hopeful for good sales, despite the prospect of a global recession

“When there is a humanitarian disaster like the one unfolding in Turkey and Syria, a swift response is important,” says a spokesperson for the fair

The emirate, currently a haven for 'half of Moscow', is enjoying a post-pandemic economic boom

From smuggled paintings to cancelled visas, the heads of the subcontinent's fairs, biennials and galleries weigh in on the ramifications of the contested border

Plus, NFTs and more at Art Dubai, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s golden curtain in Toronto

The event's 15th edition dedicated a whole building to the "rapidly expanding digital arts space"

Georgian gallery lays down Ukrainian flag in its booth while fair says it will donate 25% of ticket sales to Ukrainian refugees

Art fair opens in the UAE this week with a new digital arts section and a series of talks on all things metaverse

The state-backed online "museum" plans a physical exhibition later this year at the Ethihad Museum

Meanwhile, a crypto-art cruise during the fair indicates which way the wind may be blowing for future editions

Most of the 50 exhibitors participating are based in the Middle East but seven who are unable to travel in person have sent works for "remote participation" stands

Postponed fair will now host almost half as many galleries as heightened restrictions prevent international travel

Although Art Dubai still plans to go ahead in March, the UK has just banned all flights to the emirates and international fairs are still out, so many UAE galleries are exploring new models

It will be the first major international art fair to return to the art world calendar since the pandemic upended business around the world

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs suggested its AED 1.5m in purchases were part of a new initiative following the suspension of Art Dubai due to Covid-19