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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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Ilya&Emilia Kabakov The Cupola, 2003 Mixed media 1400 cm diameter Courtesy the artists Photo © Riyadh Art
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10 must-see pieces at Noor Riyadh: installations lighting up Saudi Arabia's capital city

Lights, camera, action! The festival of light is illuminating the kingdom's capital until April 3

ArtMarch 25, 2021
Koert Vermeulen's 'Star in Motion'. Riyadh Art 2021
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What is that big star installation hanging over Riyadh right now?

Created by Belgian artist Koert Vermeulen, the star, which lights up on the hour, hangs 256 metres in the sky

ArtMarch 24, 2021
Sotheby's is selling this rare 1910 work by Mahmoud Mokhtar: his university graduation project. Sotheby's
A rare side of Mahmoud Mokhtar goes up for auction at Sotheby's

Sotheby's is selling the artist's university graduation project and a later classic bust

ArtMarch 23, 2021
Lebanese-French architect Hala Wardee. HW Architecture
Why Lebanon's pavilion at Venice Biennale looks to evoke a sense of calm

Warde will represent Lebanon at the event, which opens in May

ArtMarch 18, 2021
The Jameel Arts Centre last year switched its competition call from painting to digital works. Nadim Choufi’s sci-fi video 'The Sky Oscillates Between Eternity and Its Immediate Consequences', is the resulting commission (2020).
The digital age has truly dawned upon the arts, but what has the online shift taught us?

Cultural experts tell Melissa Gronlund about how the digital medium is taking centre stage

ArtMarch 16, 2021
‘When the Sea Looks Back, A Serpent’s Tale’ (2017) by Berlin collective The Many Headed Hydra, at the 2019 Colomboscope. This year’s event will be part in-person and part online. Ruvin de Silva
Colomboscope: Sri Lankan biennial to explore the intersection of language and migration

The August event will examine the fluidity of words and meaning

ArtMarch 12, 2021
British artist Damien Hirst's latest work is a series of eight prints called 'The Virtues'. Damien Hirst and Science Ltd
Damien Hirst creates work that can be purchased with cryptocurrency

'I love art and I love the crypto world and I am happy and proud to put my belief into it,' says the British artist

ArtMarch 02, 2021
A rendering of the Art Dubai tents that will be erected at DIFC from March 29 to April 3. Art Dubai
Art Dubai announces list of participating galleries for 2021 fair

Owing to travel restrictions, the fair’s gallery list is predominantly from the Global South

ArtFebruary 28, 2021
Saad AlHowede was one of the winners of last year's Misk Art Grant. Here, his 'Memory Melting', 2020, was made of plastic toys. Courtesy Misk Art Institute
Saudi Arabia's Misk Art Grant doubles amount in its second year

The Saudi organisation will now give 1 million Saudi riyals to artists across the Arab world

ArtFebruary 23, 2021
'Why Call It Labour?: On Motherhood and Art Work' (2020) has been published in Arabic and English. Courtesy Mophradat
New book examines how being a mother is 'taboo' in the art world

Arab funding agency Mophradat's publication confronts the problems facing cultural workers who are mothers

ArtFebruary 22, 2021
Art Dubai, which had taken place at Madinat Jumeirah in previous years, will be held at DIFC next month. Photo Solutions
Art Dubai adapts plans, but will still go ahead with a physical fair in March

The art fair will move to a bespoke structure with better safety provisions in DIFC

ArtFebruary 17, 2021
Jeddah's Athr Gallery will be showing an embroidered textile from Sultan Bin Fahad's 'Madinah' from the 'Holy Economy' series (2020). Courtesy Intersect Art and Design
Artists from US, Middle East and North Africa collaborate for online fair

Participating galleries include those in Beirut, Dubai and Jeddah

ArtFebruary 15, 2021
The Arch of Ctesiphon was once part of a larger palatial complex in the Persian empire’s capital. Courtesy Aliph
Clock is ticking to preserve Iraq's 1,700-year-old Arch of Ctesiphon

Neglect and climate change has left the largest single-span bridge in the world nearing devastation, but a stabilisation project hopes to prevent catastrophic collapse

ArtFebruary 14, 2021
Praneet Soi's new book 'Anamorphosis' juxtaposes motifs and histories of Kashmir and Palestine. Book Works; The Mosaic Rooms
How Praneet Soi's new art book explores connections between Palestine and Kashmir

The artist draws parallels between the two areas through work first shown in an exhibition

ArtFebruary 08, 2021
Mohamed Mahdy’s ‘Moon Dust’ documents the damage caused by a cement factory in Alexandria. Goethe Institute; Mohamed Mahdy (2020)
Take Me to the River: Exhibit puts climate change in the foreground

The show, curated by Lebanon's Maya El Khalil, brings catastrophes of mankind to attentionn

ArtJanuary 28, 2021
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