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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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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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