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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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DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - SEPTEMBER 09: Artist Sacha Jafri poses for a portraits on September 09, 2020 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Sacha Jafri is embarking on a global initiative to create the World’s largest painting on canvas. Jafri has been in lockdown at Atlantis, The Palm since March 2020, creating his record-breaking Painting entitled ‘The Journey of Humanity’. (Photo by Francois Nel/Getty Images)
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Can Sacha Jafri pull off sale of the century with 'world’s largest painting’?

The British artist’s record-breaking piece could fetch millions at auction for charity (and reinforce his reputation for excess)

ArtSeptember 28, 2020
Iconem's rendering of the Old City of Aleppo, one of the oldest cities in the world to bear witness to a constant human presence. Laurent de Broca
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Project conserves Aleppo’s 5,000 years of history before it is lost forever

Yves Ubelmann’s start-up Iconem takes digital snapshots of war-torn cities

ArtSeptember 27, 2020
Abu Dhabi's Cultural Foundation. Courtesy of Abu Dhabi Culture and Tourism
Abu Dhabi's Cultural Foundation invites artists to apply for residency programme

Now in its third year, the programme's applications are open

ArtSeptember 25, 2020
Extremely rare to market, Sandro Botticelli's 'Portrait of a Young Man Holding a Roundel' is expected to achieve $80 million at auction at Sotheby's in January 2021. Courtesy Sotheby's
Rare Botticelli to go on auction in January for $80 million

The current owner of the painting stands to make an 8,000 per cent profit

ArtSeptember 24, 2020
Hala Khayat is the new regional director for Art Dubai. Courtesy Christie's Images
Art Dubai announces new format for March event

Fair also appoints Syrian art specialist Hala Khayat as regional director

ArtSeptember 19, 2020
TeamLab's interactive digital artwork at the Grande Halle de la Villette in May 2018 in Paris. AFP
TeamLab Borderless: a new digital-art museum is coming to Jeddah in 2023

Interactive artworks by famed Japanese collective teamLab to go on display

ArtSeptember 14, 2020
Artist Chafa Ghaddar. Photo John Marsland
The Lebanese artist with a focus on frescoes: 'They give me goosebumps'

The artist deconstructs the Renaissance technique in her show at Tashkeel

ArtSeptember 14, 2020
Egyptian-French artist Ghada Amer standing in front of her work, 'Women's Qualities' (2020), at Rockefeller Centre. Photo courtesy Casey Kelbaugh / Frieze
What does it mean to be a woman? Artist Ghada Amer spells it out in flowers

The Egyptian-French artist elevates creative forms belittled as 'craft' or 'women’s work' to the realm of biennials, museums and high art

ArtSeptember 10, 2020
Almaha Jaralla’s painting 'I/1' (2020) is being offered in 101’s inaugural sale for Dh8,000. Courtesy 101
New platform aims to shake up the UAE art scene: 'Anyone can be a collector'

The new platform seeks to create a 'sustainable and ethical' art ecosystem

ArtAugust 28, 2020
An installation view of the work 'a landscape' (2015–20) in the diner and exhibition space Maisan in Al Barsha. Courtesy Rami Farook
A reflection of past and present: Rami Farook opens new exhibition in Dubai

The gallery owner and artist’s canvases muse on the creation and exhibition of art

ArtAugust 26, 2020
Hammad Nasar was curator of the art UAE pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. National Pavilion UAE
Former UAE pavilion curator to helm next year's British Art Show

Former UAE Venice Biennale pavilion curator Hammad Nasar is at the helm of the touring exhibition, which will begin in March

ArtAugust 10, 2020
A spread from Locale's 'The Room Is the City' (2016), the first publication the collective made. Courtesy Locale
How four Sudanese artists joined forces to preserve the country's culture

The collective Locale was designed to unite Sudan’s art community from across the world

ArtAugust 10, 2020
Artist Abdul Hay Mosallem Zarara. Courtesy Ala Younis
Artist Abdul Hay Mosallam Zarara was dedicated to the Palestinian cause

'A work of art is no less effective than a rifle,' he once said

ArtAugust 05, 2020
Mohamed Somji photographed Bur Dubai in May 2020, when movement was limited. Courtesy Mohamed Somji
How artists in the UAE have changed the way they work amid the pandemic

We asks five UAE creatives to describe their process and work in light of the coronavirus crisis

ArtAugust 02, 2020
A stupa at Shewaki, Afghanistan, photographed in June 2020, that is being rehabilitated with funds from the Aliph Foundation. Work on the Shewaki site was interrupted by the coronavirus, but has now resumed. ACHCO
Aliph doubles emergency funding for cultural sites in response to overwhelming need

A total of $2 million will go to heritage sites affected by the coronavirus pandemic

ArtJuly 30, 2020
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