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Watch curator Munira Al Sayegh in conversation with the founder and contributors of Unootha, an independent digital platform for Middle Eastern and North African womxn. The all-womxn panel discusses the platform\u2019s role in creating and engaging with different communities across the region and redefining the spaces in which these communities interact.<\/span><\/p>\n Following the initial months of the global coronavirus pandemic and not being able to produce any work at his studio, Pune-based artist Prabhakar Pachpute has shifted to working on new, smaller-scaled works, exploring new mediums while continuing to survey ideas around industry, land and labour. He reflects on how the pandemic has taught him to expand his imagination, the shifts in his thinking towards what is of importance, and how this is expressed in his practice. Pachpute is represented by Experimenter Gallery in Kolkata, India.<\/p>\n Launched in Palestine at the very beginning of worldwide lockdowns in March 2020, online radio station Radio Alhara provides a platform for discussion, listening, and community-building. The name, which translates to \u2018the neighborhood radio\u2019, is reflective of the nature of the station itself: a close-knit community emerging from the margins, yet open and accessible to the world, bridging boundaries and geographic obstacles. Read our interview with the co-founders, and listen to the playlist they made for Art Dubai.<\/p>\n Multi-medium artist Charwei Tsai has been busy at work in her Taipei studio over the past months, having completed a video work commissioned by the Green Island Human Rights Art Festival, and continuing her exploration of organic material and the human experience through her works on paper series. Dive into her recent projects, as well as the changes and shifts in her practice through our latest post.<\/p>\n A look at Sri Lanka\u2019s interdisciplinary arts festival COLOMBOSCOPE with Artistic Director Natasha Ginwala and 2021 festival Curator Anushka Rajendran where they discuss the upcoming festival\u2019s premise, as well as the organisation\u2019s year-round engagement programmes for the community. View highlights of COLOMBOSCOPE\u2019s online series, #HeldApartTogether, developed as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, providing a window into the artistic community\u2019s present struggles and endeavors in communal resilience.<\/p>\n Sharjah Art Foundation Director of Collections and Senior Curator Omar Kholeif dives into the foundation\u2019s newest exhibition, <\/span>Art in the Age of Anxiety<\/span><\/i>, the curatorial vision and research that drove the show, as well as the resulting output from the exploration of our individual and collective relationships with the digital and technological spheres.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch collector and Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation Director Basel Dalloul discuss the Foundation, its mission and remit. View highlights from the Foundation’s collection, tour the DAF space, and discover the newly launched archives and resources.<\/span><\/p>\n Delve into Dubai\u2019s Non-Profit Ishara Art Foundation newest initiative, Alt+Shift+Studio which explores a redefinition of the \u2018artist\u2019s studio\u2019 in the 21st century beyond an isolated physical space of production. View highlights from the four featured artists: Rajyashri Goody, Umber Majeed, Randhir Singh, and Abdul Halik Azeez and an interview with Sabih Ahmed, Ishara\u2019s Associate Director and Curator, and Laura Metzler, Operations, Programmes and Production Manager, who co-conceived the project.<\/p>\n A special word from Director General of the Palestinian Museum, Adila La\u00efdi-Hanieh, PhD, discussing the history and mission of the Museum, and its preparedness to react to the current lockdown as part of its structural positioning within an occupied space. The feature is accompanied by an in-depth guided tour of the Museum\u2019s latest exhibition, exploring representations of Palestinian land and natural geography through an array of political posters.<\/p>\n Watch Samdani Art Foundation Director Nadia Samdani discuss the Foundation\u2019s new initiative Art Around the Table, which engages with literal and figurative tables across Bangladesh and globally via contributions by artists, curators and writers including Rana Begum, Habiba Nowros and Gidree Bawlee.<\/p>\n BAIT 15 is an artist-run studio and exhibition space housed in a residential home in downtown Abu Dhabi, founded in late 2017 by Afra Al Dhaheri, Hashel Al Lamki, and Maitha Abdalla. BAIT (meaning home in Arabic) 15\u2019s co-founders join independent curator and Gulf Now organiser Munira Al Sayegh in conversation to discuss their three-year journey so far, highlights from their residency and exhibition programmes, as well as thoughts on what the future holds for BAIT 15 and the artist-run ecology of the UAE.<\/p>\n Bahrain-based artist-run platform Too Far\u00a0has delved into the history and cultural impact of Khaleeji (Arabian Gulf) pop music through an interactive lecture. Selected by independent curator Munira Al Sayegh as an ongoing focus on non-profit artist-run platforms operating in the Gulf, the online lecture provides perspective on the roots of Khaleeji pop, its evolution throughout the decades, and its impact on musical production and cultural identity in the region.<\/p>\n La Vitrine, a project space on the ground floor of Rue Pasteur in the popular Beirut neighborhood Gemmayze, presents site-specific artist interventions in a four by two metre, high-ceilinged room, with only a glass door separating it from the sidewalk and passersby. In a time with widespread lockdowns and physical distancing, this project allows us to examine what happens when we alter the conventional art presentation model with one that increases the physical distance between the viewer and the artwork.<\/p>\n 27\/04\/2020<\/p>\n Amman-based MMAG Foundation has developed a series of care packages filled with intangibles; collections of memes, thoughts, films, photographs, songs and videos that lend a sense of comfort, entertainment, thought, or visual delight as forms of care. Co-imagined with Sarah Rifky \u2013 writer, curator and co-founder of Beirut<\/em>\u00a0(2012\u201315), an art institution in Cairo \u2013 and in collaboration with independent Egyptian news platform, Mada Masr, these care packages each have a different theme and contain a unique set of materials for the viewer to unravel. Currently featuring packages by The Rocca Family Project, Zach Blas and\u00a0Nata\u0161a Petre\u0161in-Bachelez.<\/p>\n 21\/04\/2020<\/p>\n Devi Art Foundation was established as a not-for-profit organisation in 2005 to facilitate the viewership of creative expressions and artistic practices that exist in India.<\/p>\n As uncertainty and need for hope\/action grips us and we turn to arts of different kinds to cope \u2013 we look back at an exhibition Devi Art Foundation did in 2011 \u2013 HOME SPUN. The exhibition was curated by independent writer and curator, Girish Shahane.<\/p>\n News from Nowhere compiles snippets from global news reports through video montage. The video aims to highlight issues that may quickly be forgotten, or remain unnoticed during chaos of the Covid-19 pandemic.[\/vc_column_text] Comprised of clips featured on social media channels, and other found footage, do nothing club is a fleeting summary of our collective response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and the coping mechanisms that have arisen from it.[\/vc_column_text] As gamification invades real life, Worlding for Real is a true story about pixels, gameworlds, multiplayer networks and systems of play today. Part 1 explores the beginnings and ends of pixels, and the transfers of power at the edges of what is seen and computational invisibility.[\/vc_column_text] Part manifesto, part video essay, Clean Hands is a summarised riposte to the vapid, selfish acts and behaviours one witnesses as a mere bystander to the Covid-19 pandemic.[\/vc_column_text] Music for Homes was composed in quarantine and is meant to be both calming and energizing. It’s also an homage to Brian Eno’s Music for Airports, as well as composers Laurie Spiegel and Haruomi Hosono. A Special Report on Art & Philanthropy models across South Asia, in partnership with ArtTactic, is now available to download. The report aims to\u00a0better understand the funding eco-system for the visual arts\u00a0sector, and to map and present innovative and sustainable\u00a0philanthropic activities in the region.[\/vc_column_text]
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[vc_column_text]09\/09\/2020<\/p>\nPrabhakar Pachpute: Reflections on an Evolving Practice<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]02\/09\/2020<\/p>\nRadio Alhara: Creating a Sense of Community through Music and Conversation<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]24\/08\/2020<\/p>\nCharwei Tsai: A dive into the multi-disciplinary artist’s most recent works and practice\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]11\/08\/2020<\/p>\nCOLOMBOSCOPE: A look at Sri Lanka’s interdisciplinary arts festival with Natasha Ginwala and Anushka Rajendran<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]28\/07\/2020<\/p>\nArt in the Age of Anxiety: An Interview with Sharjah Art Foundation’s Omar Kholeif<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]21\/07\/2020<\/p>\nAn Inside Look at the Dalloul Art Foundation<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]21\/07\/2020<\/p>\nIshara Art Foundation’s Alt+Shift+Studio: Reimagining the Artist Studio<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]05\/07\/2020<\/p>\nThe Palestinian Museum: Transcending Borders<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]01\/07\/2020<\/p>\nA Focus on Non-Profit Art Foundations in the Global South: The Samdani Art Foundation<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]30\/06\/2020<\/p>\nIn Conversation:\u00a0UAE Artist Collective BAIT 15 Co-founders with Curator Munira Al Sayegh<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]28\/06\/2020<\/p>\nKhaleeji Pop: Bahraini Artist Collective Too Far Explores Arabian Gulf\u2019s Pop Musical Traditions<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]04\/05\/2020<\/p>\nLa Vitrine at Beirut Art Residency<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[vc_column_text]08\/04\/2020<\/p>\nNews from Nowhere by Nabla Yahya<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]08\/04\/2020<\/p>\nWorlding For Real by Ana Maria Ana Maria Nicolaescu<\/b><\/h4>\n
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[\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]24\/03\/2020<\/p>\nArtTactic\u2019s South Asia Special Report: Art & Philanthropy 2020<\/b><\/h4>\n
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