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      Melissa Gronlund

      Melissa Gronlund

      Art Correspondent
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      London
      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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      Sotheby's recent South Asian art sale set a record for this untitled work (detail shown) by the Indian minimalist Nasreen Mohamedi, made sometime in the 1960s. It sold for $437,500 in New York. Courtesy Sotheby's
      How auction houses are responding to the coronavirus

      Christie's will not hold its major 20th-century sales in New York in May

      ArtMarch 21, 2020
      Mehdi Moutashar's work installed at the exhibition of Jameel Prize 5 at the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai in 2019. Moutashar is one of the jury for the Jamil Prize 6. Dani Baptista / Jameel Arts Centre
      Jameel Prize 6 to focus exclusively on design

      The prize will now run every three years through an open call

      ArtMarch 19, 2020
      Artist Rosalind Nashashibi with her works. Rob Greig for The National
      Why artist Rosalind Nashashibi swapped her camera for canvas

      Rosalind Nashashibi tells us how she began painting at Britain’s National Gallery

      ArtMarch 19, 2020
      Venetia Porter, curator of the Middle East department at the British Museum in London.
      British Museum to exhibit 150 works by Middle Eastern artists

      The works have been acquired by the museum, thanks to its tireless advocate of Arab art, Venetia Porter

      ArtMarch 12, 2020
      John Frederick Lewis's 'The Bezestein Bazaar of El Khan Khalil, Cairo', painted in 1872, will go on auction in June in London, where it is expected to achieve £3–5 million (Dh14-23.5 million). Christie's
      The rehabilitation of a genre: auction houses bet on Orientalism

      Christie's will consign a major John Frederick Lewis painting in June; Sotheby's auction more of the Najd Collection

      ArtMarch 12, 2020
      Piraeus at Dawn (1949) by the Egyptian modernist Mahmoud Said
      Sotheby's long-time Middle East specialist Roxane Zand steps down

      Zand, who has been at Sotheby's since 2006, is well regarded as a speaker and writer on Arab and Middle Eastern art

      ArtMarch 03, 2020
      Mophradat Consortium Commissions winner Haig Aivazian will create a work about light and surveillance, to be shown in Chicago and London. Courtesy Jameel Arts Centre
      Mophradat announces second round of new commissions for Arab artists

      The relaunched organisation's success seems to come from their throwing out the rule book

      ArtMarch 01, 2020
      A photograph of Latakia from Hrair Sarkissian’s series ‘Execution Squares’ (2008). Hrair Sarkissian
      Hrair Sarkissian on his art: My work is about trauma

      The artist discusses the complex sound installation he’s bringing to Sharjah next year

      ArtFebruary 26, 2020
      Sultan bin Fahad's audio installation ‘Al Hida'a’ (2019). Photo: Abdullah AlMeslmani. Commissioned by Saudi Art Council. Courtesy 21, 39 Jeddah Arts
      'Respect should define the future,' says Maya El Khalil of her show in Jeddah

      The central exhibition for Jeddah’s 21, 39 exhibition frames global warming as an opportunity for good

      ArtFebruary 20, 2020
      Rana Begum's winning 'No. 695 Abraaj' for the 2017 Abraaj Prize, an immense sculptural work made of coloured Perspex triangles. Courtesy Art Jameel
      Abraaj Group Art Prize collection finds new home at Art Jameel

      The fate of the near 30 works has been hotly debated after Abraaj's implosion

      ArtFebruary 19, 2020
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      Emirati artist spices up Madinat Zayed market with giant mural

      The artist was inspired by the market's fruit and vegetables for his colourful work

      ArtFebruary 16, 2020
      Kevin Basl is an anti-war activist and artist calling for a change in arts funding
      US military veterans add their voices to MoMa PS1 protest

      A group of US veterans have written a letter protesting the MoMA PS1 exhibition about the Iraq War

      ArtFebruary 16, 2020
      Attendees look at an Audi AG A3 e-tron electric vehicle on display at the 43rd Tokyo Motor Show 2013 in Tokyo, Japan, in November 2013. Bloomberg
      On the charge: plugging into the world of electric vehicles

      Driving a hybrid vehicle is entirely fabulous, mostly for the social cache

      MotoringFebruary 15, 2020
      Manal AlDowayan, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, installation view at Desert X AlUla, photo by Lance Gerber, courtesy the artist, RCU and Desert X 2
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      Desert X Al Ula puts Saudi Arabia's historic site on arts map

      The inaugural exhibition is made up of installations directly inspired by the serene desert location

      ArtJanuary 31, 2020
      ‘Ephemeral witness’ (2019) by Manal Al Dowayan. Melissa Gronlund for The National
      The 2020 edition of 21,39 opens in Jeddah

      'Art used to be at the margins of Saudi. Now we are at the centre,' says Mohammed Hafiz, vice-chair of the Saudi Art Council

      ArtJanuary 29, 2020
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