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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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A still from Bassam Al-Sabah's CGI video 'I Am Error' (2021). Bassam Al-Sabah
Iraqi-Irish artist Bassam Al-Sabah uses CGI effects like paint

The Iraqi artist reveals how he's using video game scenarios to tell stories of violence

ArtAugust 03, 2021
The King Abdulaziz Centre for World Culture, also known as Ithra, in Dhahran. Courtesy Ithra
Ithra Art Prize partners with Ad-Diriyah Biennale

The award carries $100,000 for an Arab artist

ArtAugust 02, 2021
A rendering of Volte Art Projects' new 740-square-metre space in Alserkal Avenue. Volte Art Projects
Mumbai's Volte Art Projects aims to bring blockbusters to Dubai

The gallery, which shows a mix of international artists, will open at Alserkal Avenue

ArtJuly 31, 2021
A lithograph made by Pierre-Francois Lehoux depicting Ramses II on his chariot is on view at the Musee Champillion. Courtesy Departement de l’Isere / Musee Champollion
Rosetta Stone codebreaker's home museum reopens in France

The institution, which offers a window into 19th-century Egyptology, underwent a €6.7 million five-year renovation

Arts & CultureJuly 30, 2021
Ulrike Al-Khamis is new director and chief executive of the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada. Courtesy Aga Khan Museum
New head of Aga Khan Museum says we must 'set objects free'

Ulrike Al-Khamis was formerly at the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation

ArtJuly 27, 2021
David Adjaye's rendering of the Africa Institute in Sharjah. © Adjaye Associates
Design for Sharjah's Africa Institute new campus unveiled

32,000-square-metre centre designed by Ghanaian-British architect David Adjaye

Arts & CultureJuly 22, 2021
Anuar Khalifi's 'Safi Safari' (2019). Courtesy the artist and The Third Line, Dubai
How Moroccan artist Anuar Khalifi is breathing new life into portraiture

His latest show, Palimpsest, is currently in The Third Line’s Online Viewing Room

ArtJuly 17, 2021
Curators of Beyond: Emerging Artists 2021 – Till Fellrath, left, and Sam Bardaouil. National Pavilion UAE
Abu Dhabi Art announces curators and artists for emerging talent exhibition

The programme will be on show between November and January at Manarat Al Saadiyat

ArtJuly 15, 2021
Louvre Abu Dhabi is offering up a new prize. Hufton + Crow
Louvre Abu Dhabi announces first major prize for contemporary art

The Richard Mille Art Prize, launched in conjunction with the Swiss watchmaker, will award one artist $50,000

ArtJuly 14, 2021
Libyan artist and calligrapher Ali Omar Ermes
Libyan-British calligrapher Ali Omar Ermes dies

The artist sought to bridge the divide between the two cultures he lived between

ArtJuly 12, 2021
Sisters Tessa and Tara Sakhi in front of their work 'Letters from Beirut' in the Giardini in Venice. The work gives a voice to those in Lebanon.
'Letters from Beirut': an installation to resist forgetfulness

Designers commemorate the crisis in Lebanon with messages from people around the world

ArtJuly 12, 2021
One of Ghanaian sculptor El Anatsui's signature pieces of cloth, made from reused bottle caps and packaging material. El Anatsui’s work will be shown across several botanical gardens in September. Courtesy Jonathan Greet
Augmented reality exhibition to take place simultaneously across six countries

The September show will bring the work of dozens of artists, including the UAE's Mohammed Kazem, to botanical gardens around the world

ArtJuly 08, 2021
Monira Al Qadiri’s Chimera (2021) looks like a creature risen from the deep sea. Monira Al Qadiri 2021. Commissioned by, and collection of, Expo 2020 Dubai
What this Expo 2020 Dubai sculpture says about the UAE

Expo 2020 announces its art commissions, which will be a permanent fixture at the four-square-kilometre site

ArtJuly 04, 2021
Afra Al Dhaheri working on her installation 'Tasreeha, 2020', from Abu Dhabi Art's Beyond: Emerging Artists show at Manarat Al Saadiyat
Winners of Saudi Arabia's Misk Art Grant announced

The UAE is well represented in this year's grant cycle

ArtJune 30, 2021
London Design Biennale at London's iconic Somerset House focused on climate change. Photo Ed Reeve
Why London Design Biennale made climate change a priority

Director Victoria Broackes says the event is changing directions and that it is 'thinking of design in new ways'

ArtJune 24, 2021
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