The very international Art Dubai returned for its 11th edition this month, under the new direction of Myrna Ayad at the Madinat Jumeirah. This year’s fair saw a growing plethora of galleries and countries represented – over 500 creatives expressing...
It’s a good time to be a designer in Dubai, with increased support from both the public and private sectors. Initiatives such as the five year-old Design Days Dubai fair, the establishment of the Dubai Design District and Design Week have...
When Dubai-based Khalid Shafar shared a podium during Wallpaper’s inaugural ’Middle East Revealed’ exhibition in East London (held in September 2014), he commented on the abundance of gender equality in the design show’s curation. The women, represented by Emirati photographer...
Textile artist Rita Parniczky is thoroughly trained in the fine arts. In her native Hungary, she studied porcelain painting before moving to London and receiving an Arts Foundation fellowship and earning admission to Central Saint Martins. Throughout these programs, Parniczky gravitated...
Titters broke out during the opening-day press conference for Design Days Dubai - the fourth edition of the annual fair billed as the Middle East’s largest - when a representative from automaker Audi, one of the event’s chief underwriters, mistakenly...
Parisian-born Cyril Zammit launched Design Days Dubai (DDD) in 2012 with 22 regional and international galleries. Last week, 33 galleries attended the 2014 edition of the fair, with eight of them returning for the third year in a row. In...
A purpose-built tent erected in front of the Burj Khalifa - (still) the world’s tallest building - provided a dramatic setting for the second edition of Design Days Dubai, the region’s only design fair. The four-day event welcomed 29 galleries...
Dubai, the heartland of the Middle East and a country with only 40 years of history, is approaching the outside world with an open mind and welcoming arms. Already a playground for international starchitects, it is now luring in international...
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