Entertainment | Performing & Visual Arts

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    Friday Oct 26

    Music you’d love to face

    This festive season, here’s the list of not-to-be-missed operas, plays and exhibitions from across the world

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    Thursday Oct 25

    Mould of the human condition

    Mondongo, a collective of seven artists, uses folklore, literature, film and modern-day icons in its sculptural creations to make profound comments about today’s society. The aim — to bring about positive change

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    Thursday Oct 25

    Shadowy exploits of an inner voice

    A conversation with a friend and some introspection was all that 
Jaber Al Azmeh needed to know how he could serve the Syrian revolution

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    Thursday Oct 18

    Encouraging a new generation of collectors

    Art auctions are becoming a regular affair in Dubai. With works from across the price range going under the hammer, they are no longer an obsession of just the rich

  • Wednesday Oct 17

    Gibran play hopes to inspire in the UAE

    Rest Upon The Wind is based on the life of celebrated author, artist and poet Khalil Gibran

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    Thursday Oct 11

    Utopia deconstructed for new realities

    Gil Heitor Cortesão’s paintings strive to achieve the vision of urban housing that eluded architects of the 1950s and 1960s

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    Thursday Oct 11

    Endless cycle of turmoil

    Pakistani artists peel off the many layers that contribute to the unrest in their country

  • Monday Oct 8

    Spooky play ‘Woman In Black’ back in UAE

    Play has been running 23 years in London’s West End

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    Thursday Oct 4

    The bricklayer who studied Latin

    Piero Alessandrini describes how the innovative designer and architect in him came to be

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    Thursday Oct 4

    Bronze beauties

    From 8th-century West African masters to Louise Bourgeois, the best sculptors have always worked in bronze

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    Thursday Oct 4

    A tribute to Gandhi

    Ashok Mody captures all that Mahatma Gandhi stood for in word and deed

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    Wednesday Oct 3

    The arte famiglia Nicola

    Meet the Nicolas, a renowned family of art restorers in Italy

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    Tuesday Oct 2

    Group art exhibition at Gallery 76

    Emergent art culture in Dubai has room to grow

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    Monday Oct 1

    The Nicolas: A renowned family of art restorers

    For over 50 years, the Nicolas have been saving ravaged and ancient masterpieces and restoring them to their former glory in their workshop in Aramengo, Italy. And they do it for the love of art

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    Friday Sep 28

    Made-in-UAE musical reflects need for platform

    Kalubela features vocalists from Oman, UK, South Africa, Colombia and Bulgaria

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    Thursday Sep 27

    A poignant survival strategy

    Two young Iranian artists highlight the ambivalence of life in Iran — traditional in the public gaze and global behind closed doors

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    Thursday Sep 27

    Caught in the middle

    Artist Oussama Diab reads international greed between the lines of sufferings of the ordinary Arab

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    Thursday Sep 20

    Capturing the soul of chaos

    Hatty Pedder’s warm and witty works eloquently convey the spirit and energy of India’s commecial hub

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    Thursday Sep 20

    Starchitects and squatters

    This Venice Architecture Biennale will be remembered not for glitz but the mood of collaboration and Utopia it has ushered

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    Wednesday Sep 19

    Manic Mumbai

    A British artist besotted by India pays a visual tribute to the city of Mumbai

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    Monday Sep 17

    Rare Japanese woodblock prints at Dubai show

    Works of leading artist based on technique dating back to the 8th century

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    Thursday Sep 13

    Afghanistan behind the veil

    Canadian photographer Lana Slezic captures the spirit and beauty of women in the war-ravaged country through poetic, painting-like images

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    Thursday Sep 6

    A Dubai exhibition on seeing the unseen

    Sara Naim melds art and science as she attempts to capture the physical effects of such an abstract notion as light

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    Thursday Sep 6

    Behind the scenes at a modern blockbuster

    Tate Britain has spent five years bringing together some of the greatest Pre-Raphaelite works for a show that repositions the artists as the radicals of their day

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    Thursday Sep 6

    A new season of art in Dubai

    Alserkal Avenue will inject fresh cultural enthusiasm into the city with an array of new exhibitions, music shows and talks this month

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