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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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