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      Melissa Gronlund

      Melissa Gronlund

      Art Correspondent
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      Melissa is an art correspondent for The National. Originally from New York City, she studied comparative literature at Princeton University and film aesthetics at Oxford. She is the author of Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. From 2007–2014 she lectured on contemporary art at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and co-edited the journal Afterall, based in London.
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      Haig Aivazian's 'All of your Stars are but Dust on my Shoes' (2021), installation view, at The Showroom in London. Photo: The Showroom, Haig Aivazian, Max Colson
      Beirut artist Haig Aivazian on the use and abuse of light

      'All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes' marks his first solo show in London

      ArtFebruary 01, 2022
      Excavations around the Al Nuri mosque in Mosul, Iraq, which is being rebuilt with help from the UAE, Aliph and Unesco after it was seriously damaged by ISIS in June 2017. AFP
      Almost $90 million raised by Aliph to protect heritage sites in conflict areas

      The amount was promised by international governments including $50m from the UAE and Saudi Arabia

      ArtFebruary 01, 2022
      Salma Al Darmaki, the Secretary General of the UAE National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, has been appointed as head of the committee. Photo: UAE Ministry of Culture and Youth
      UAE's Salma Al Darmaki to head Alecso's panel for Arab culture

      A division of the Arab League, Alecso looks after education and culture among the 22 member states

      ArtJanuary 24, 2022
      Warehouse421, the arts centre in Mina Zayed, has announced its winter programme. Photo: Warehouse 421
      Abu Dhabi arts hub Warehouse421 focuses on holistic well-being in new season

      The arts and design centre has announced its winter programming

      ArtJanuary 18, 2022
      'Untitled', 2020, by Mona Al Tamimi. Tashkeel
      New Dubai photography exhibition tackles climate crisis

      A selection of images by UAE photographers on view at Tashkeel brings humankind's destruction of the natural world into focus

      ArtJanuary 13, 2022
      The Salar Jung Museum is in Dar-Ul-Shifa, on the southern bank of the Musi river in Hyderabad, India. Getty Images
      Indian museum to open Islamic art gallery with more than 2,500 artefacts

      The Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad will open its new dedicated space in 2022

      ArtJanuary 12, 2022
      Senegalese artist Kassou Seydou's diptych 'Djogue' (2020). Photo: Galerie Cecile Fakhoury
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      Why West African art is on the rise: 'The awakening of a sleeping giant'

      West Africa's art market is on the rise and it's going global

      ArtJanuary 10, 2022
      Turki and Abdulrahman Gazzaz, the brothers behind Bricklab. Courtesy Bricklab
      Jeddawi brothers launch five-year plan to preserve Saudi architecture

      The first part of the project by the founders of Bricklab includes a book and an exhibition

      Arts & CultureJanuary 03, 2022
      People stand in front of Cy Twombly, "Untitled", part of The Macklowe Collection, at Sotheby's on November 5, 2021 in New York City. - After more than a year, in-person auctions are returning to New York this week with the sale of the exceptional Macklowe collection, reputed to be the most expensive in the world to come onto the market -- and buyers are champing at the bit after the pandemic. At renowned auction houses Christie's and Sotheby's, the message is the same: the art market is doing very well. With fall sales estimated to bring in more than $1 billion in a week, starting on November 15, "this is our largest sale season that we've presented since 2015," a record year, said Brooke Lampley, president of the fine arts department at Sotheby's. (Photo by ANGELA WEISS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY MENTION OF THE ARTIST UPON PUBLICATION - TO ILLUSTRATE THE EVENT AS SPECIFIED IN THE CAPTION
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      Biggest auction sales of 2021: from Beeple's NFT record to the Macklowe Collection

      The auction houses – Christie's, Sotheby's, Bonhams – hit high after high in a year in which the art world embraced new avenues

      ArtDecember 22, 2021
      Tarek Al-Ghoussein's Abu Dhabi Archipelago – Island Making (2015) is on display at the MEI Gallery. Photo: MEI Gallery
      UAE's diversity celebrated in US capital art exhibition

      Emirati curator Munira Al Sayegh presents the work of 12 artists from the country in a new show at MEI Art Gallery

      ArtDecember 14, 2021
      The land is a character in Noor Abed's 'our songs were ready for all wars to come', 2021. Photo: Noor Abed and Ikon Gallery
      In artist Noor Abed's film, Palestinian tales are told through the landscape

      Her work featuring women in acts of ritual and daily life tells the story of traditions

      Arts & CultureDecember 11, 2021
      The Gold Coffin of Nedjemankh was returned to Egypt by US officials in 2019. Reuters
      Egypt and the US sign agreement to protect cultural heritage

      The framework builds on the success of a 2016 deal that targeted the illicit trade of cultural property

      Arts & CultureDecember 10, 2021
      From left, artists Yusra Al-Anesi, Sara Favriau, Talin Hazbar, Sofiane Si Merabet and Muhannad Shono take part in a workshop organised by the Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts at the Madrasat AdDeera, AlUla’s arts and design centre. Photo: Anais Veignant; The Prince's Foundation School of Traditional Arts; Manifesto
      AlUla Oasis: six artists to visually transform the cultural site in Saudi Arabia

      The artists will work in collaboration with the developers, archaeologists, anthropologists and agricultural experts already working in the space

      ArtDecember 02, 2021
      'The Repose', 2021, by the established Ghanian artist Arthur Timothy. Photo: Gallery 1957
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      West African art on show at Christie's Dubai

      Works by artists from Ghana and Nigeria are on display until mid-December

      ArtNovember 26, 2021
      The Abu Dhabi Art Fair's opening ceremony at Manarat Al Saadiyat, Vidhyaa Chandramohan for The National
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      Abu Dhabi Art returns with a home town feel: 'We missed this during Covid'

      The prestigious art fair opens at Manarat Al Saadiyat on November 17

      ArtNovember 17, 2021
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