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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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One of the participants, Souad, photographed during the Memories of Home workshop. Shubbak
How one art project brings the Arab diaspora together through mementos

Artist Rand Abdul Jabbar’s Shubbak festival piece is a collection of items saved by the generations in exile

ArtJanuary 24, 2021
Artist John Akomfrah will be one of the speakers at the 2021 March Meetings. Getty Images
March Meeting: Sharjah Art Foundation reveals curators and artists set to appear

The 10 days of talks will be in-person and virtual

ArtJanuary 22, 2021
Ala Younis's famous research project, Plan for Greater Baghdad, shown here at the Venice Biennale in 2015, used a gymnasium designed by modernist architect Le Corbusier for Saddam Hussein to understand how monuments represent power. The work is now in the special collections of the Arab Centre for the Study of Art. Alessandra Chemollo
Region's first research centre for Arab art opens in Abu Dhabi

'We need to set our own standards, our own historical narrative about this region from this region', says Salwa Mikdadi, a professor of art history at NYUAD

ArtJanuary 19, 2021
During an official visit to the UK by Donald Trump in 2018, an inflatable caricature of the US President was flown in protest. The balloon is now part of the Museum of London's collection. Getty Images
Inflated art: 'Trump Baby' blimp to go on display at London museum

Enormous balloon soared above protests during the US president's visits to the UK

ArtJanuary 18, 2021
NYUAD Arts Centre's artistic director Bill Bragin says the work he commissions has changed in his five years in the UAE. NYUAD Arts Centre
From concept to stage: Why theatre commissions are crucial to NYUAD Arts Centre

It's all about believing one day you will get the 'masterpiece', says Bill Bragin, NYUAD Arts Centre's director

On StageJanuary 04, 2021
Mariam Abdel-Aleem’s ‘Clinic’ (1958) depicts healthcare in Egypt from the perspective of women. Barjeel Art Foundation
New Barjeel display promotes parity with equal split of artworks by men and women

Melissa Gronlund discusses the significance of the pieces on view and the show’s art historical accuracy

ArtDecember 22, 2020
Art Dubai will return to the UAE in March 2021. Photo Solutions
Art Dubai to return for 2021: 'The city will become a performance ground'

The fair will be one of the first to open in-person since the pandemic began, with 86 galleries already signing up

ArtDecember 17, 2020
Mohamad Hafeda's video 'Sewing Borders' (2017) shows new immigrants to Beirut marking out the routes they use to cross the city. Courtesy Eye Filmmuseum
Why Middle Eastern artists are using landscapes as a tool of societal critique

An exhibition featuring 11 prominent Arab artists will be on view at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam

ArtDecember 17, 2020
Shoppers at last year's Focal Point art book fair in Sharjah. Sharjah Art Foundation
Focal Point: our top five picks from the Sharjah art book fair

Focal Point kicks off in Sharjah this week selling books, magazines and zines from the Middle East, Africa and South Asia

ArtDecember 15, 2020
Philip Tinari will be the first curator of the Ad Diriyah Biennale. Courtesy Philip Tinari
Philip Tinari to curate Saudi Arabia's first Ad Diriyah Biennale

The country's inaugural biennial will take place in 2021 and feature 70 artists

ArtDecember 11, 2020
Rembrandt van Rijn's 'Abraham and the Angels' (1647), one of five biblical scenes left in private hands, will be sold at Sotheby's in January with an estimate of $20 to 30 million. Courtesy Sotheby's
Old Masters in Dubai: Botticelli and Rembrandt works on display for one day only

The paintings are on the block with Sotheby's and yours to see at DIFC

ArtDecember 08, 2020
Artists Nasser Al Zayani, left, and his sister Mariam, work together where they've looked at how memory can live across two people. Courtesy of the artists
11 artists in the UAE to watch in the coming year

Melissa Gronlund takes a closer look at the work of emerging artists in the UAE

ArtDecember 07, 2020
Pay attention to the subject's faces: each wears an expression you might recognise, but have never seen before. Tie the Temptress to the Trojan (2018) © Courtesy of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
Lynette Yiadom-Boakye stuns with masterful portraits at Tate Britain's reopening

The exhibition brings 80 of the British artist's works from the early 2000s to the most recent work together in one show

ArtDecember 03, 2020
Artwork by Huda Lutfi on the cover of ‘Reflections’ by British Museum curator Venetia Porter. Reproduced by permission of the artist
British Museum curator publishes new book on modern and contemporary Arab art

We speak to curator Venetia Porter whose collection of works from the Arab region is now a book and an exhibition

ArtNovember 26, 2020
Ahmed Mater's 'Magnetism' is estimated to fetch up to $151,000. Courtesy Christie's
'Magnetism': Saudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater donates seminal work to aid Covid-19 relief

The early version in his well-known series will be sold to help communities vulnerable to the virus

ArtNovember 15, 2020
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