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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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      Saudi artist Filwa Nazer with her work 'The Other Is Another Body 2' (2019), which is on view at Misk Art Week. Photo: Misk Art Institute
      Misk Art Week: themes of identity to be explored in Riyadh cultural event

      Three major exhibition strands will show at Prince Faisal bin Fahd Fine Arts Hall in the Saudi capital this December

      Arts & CultureNovember 16, 2021
      Salem Al Qassimi, the UAE's permanent delegate to Unesco. In 2019, the country joined the Executive Board of the UN's cultural agency for the first time. Photo: Antoine Monfajon
      How the UAE and Unesco are changing best-practice policies across the world

      The National speaks to Salem Al Qassimi, the new permanent delegate to the UN cultural agency

      Arts & CultureNovember 16, 2021
      A still from Nujoom Alghanem's 'Passage' (2019). Photo: Barbara Zanon
      Nujoom Alghanem's 'Passage' to show at Abu Dhabi Art 2021

      The Emirati artist's video installation will run for the duration of the fair from November 17 to 21

      Arts & CultureNovember 12, 2021
      Louvre Abu Dhabi opened to the public for the first time on November 11, 2017. Victor Besa / The National
      Louvre Abu Dhabi turns four: a look back at some memorable art

      From Rodin's 'The Thinker' to Vincent Van Gogh's 'Self-Portrait', the museum has hosted some priceless works since its opening in 2017

      Arts & CultureNovember 11, 2021
      Unable to travel to Coventry, the Beirut writers produced the film Not Much Longer Now for the BBC Contains Strong Language festival. Courtesy Youthful Cities
      British Council brings young writers from Coventry and Beirut together

      The programme has paired 12 writers to produce work on the youth of today

      Arts & CultureNovember 05, 2021
      Jewad Selim's 'Good and Evil, An Abstraction' (1951) was a study for a mural for the headquarters of the Iraqi Red Crescent, designed by Ellen Jawdat. The mural was never made. Photo: Bonhams
      Iraq Modernism leads Middle East's auction sales this season

      Christie's and Bonhams offer works by Iraqi artists this autumn

      ArtOctober 25, 2021
      An installation view of Douglas Abdell's retrospective at Ab-Anbar Gallery, showing on the wall collaged paintings made in New York in the 1970s, and his later columns from the 1980s that responded to the Lebanese Civil War. Photo: Ab-Anbar Gallery
      Douglas Abdell's Punic Wars rediscovered in a London retrospective

      The American artist of Lebanese descent is being celebrated in a retrospective of his work in London

      ArtOctober 23, 2021
      The Syrian-born Simone Fattal made etchings of Damascus from memory, inspired by military engravings from the Louvre in Paris. Here, Au Bord du Barada II (At the Edge of the Barada, II), 2020. Photo: Galerie Lelong & Co
      Simone Fattal's institutional show draws on Gilgamesh and Damascus

      This Lebanese-American artist's first major solo presentation is currently running in the UK

      ArtOctober 13, 2021
      The National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, photographed in September 2021. AFP
      Former deputy culture minister in Afghanistan: 'I feel like I'm in a dream'

      Omar Sultan remains sceptical of international agencies such as Unesco protecting Afghan heritage sites

      Arts & CultureOctober 12, 2021
      A visitor walks in front of an untitled artwork by Turkish artist Melek Toraman during Contemporary Istanbul. EPA
      Istanbul ushers in a new chapter for the arts

      Turkey's contemporary arts fair comes to a close, as new institutions gear up for opening

      ArtOctober 11, 2021
      A public art programme was specially commissioned for Expo 2020 Dubai. Pawan Singh/The National.
      Expo 2020 Dubai's public art programme: the best works to see

      The site is dotted with specially commissioned works of a fantastical nature

      ArtOctober 11, 2021
      Egyptian-Honduran artist Jackie Milad collages together images of ancient and modern images in her vibrant, cacophonous 'Nada Que Decir' (second iteration), 2020–2021. She lives in Baltimore City. Photo: Jackie Milad
      New art exhibition at the Middle East Institute questions Arab-American representation

      Converging Lines: Tracing the Artistic Lineage of the Arab Diaspora in the US urges the consideration of the American context of Arab work

      Arts & CultureOctober 04, 2021
      People stand in front of the Arc de Triomphe, wrapped in silver-blue fabric, as it was designed by late artist Christo, as part of the 38th European Heritage Days and the launch of the Cultural Olympiad in Paris, on September 30, 2021. - Work has begun on wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in silvery-blue fabric as a posthumous tribute to the artist Christo, who had dreamt of the project for decades. Bulgarian-born Christo, a longtime Paris resident, had plans for sheathing the imposing war memorial at the top of the Champs-Elysees while renting an apartment near it in the 1960s. (Photo by THOMAS COEX / AFP)
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      Artist Christo honoured with prestigious Abu Dhabi Festival Award

      Award was presented to the 'L'Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped' artist's nephew Vladimir Yavachev in Paris

      Arts & CultureOctober 03, 2021
      Visitors watch a light show at Al Wasl Plaza at Expo 2020 Dubai. Victor Besa / The National.
      Six attractions to keep children entertained at Expo 2020 Dubai

      From public artwork to interactive installations, there's something for everyone

      FamilyOctober 02, 2021
      Etel Adnan's 'Landscape' (2014) was one of 1,600 works donated by Claude and France Lemand to the Institut du Monde Arabe. Photo: Etel Adnan
      From Beirut to Paris: how the Institut du Monde Arabe is giving Lebanon 'hope and support'

      Lebanese architect Carl Gerges designs an appropriate setting for the Claude Lemand donation

      ArtOctober 01, 2021
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