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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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      Samia Halaby pictured in 2020 in front of her artwork. Photo: Lara Atalla
      'We put up a good fight': Samia Halaby on US show cancellation

      In an exclusive interview with The National, abstract painter says she detects 'sentiment shift' among younger Americans following occupied country's struggle

      Arts & CultureJanuary 17, 2024
      Artist Hera Buyuktasciyan was inspired by this image of Zaha Hadid as a child. Photo: Hera Buyuktasciyan
      Controversy emerges over show about Zaha Hadid in the US

      Contemporary Arts Centre declines to publish letter in solidarity with Palestinians

      Arts & CultureJanuary 04, 2024
      Shezad Dawood's installation at the Abu Dhabi Corniche. Photo: Lance Gerber
      Abu Dhabi artwork is Shezad Dawood's response to climate crisis

      Since 2017 the London creative has collaborated with scientists and environmental campaigners

      Art & DesignDecember 07, 2023
      The new East Bank cultural quarter aims to revitalise the formerly derelict area. Photo: East Bank
      East Bank, a new cultural quarter emerges in London

      Branches of major museums and universities are setting up shop in the former Olympics park

      Arts & CultureNovember 30, 2023
      The human-headed winged bull sculpture discovered with its entire wings intact at the archaeological site of Khorsabad. AFP
      Lamassu discovery in Iraq hails new period of archaeology

      The excavation of the beast reverses narratives of ISIS destruction

      Arts & CultureNovember 05, 2023
      Bakhter Art has been selling Central Asian textiles for decades. It is housed in the Al Fayez arcade, inside Alfies. Amy McConaghy / The National
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      Legendary London antiques market Alfies opens to Middle East trade

      The new high-end galleries reflect the thriving community around the Edgware Road

      WeekendNovember 03, 2023
      Art X Lagos's founder Tokini Peterside-Schwebig. Photo: Art X Lagos
      Art X Lagos changes format due to Nigeria's economic troubles

      Fair to become an engine of dialogue says founder Tokini Peterside-Schwebig

      Arts & CultureNovember 02, 2023
      Shafic Abboud's incandescent Villa des Iris (1984) is leading Bonhams's November Middle East sale. Photo: Bonhams
      How will Middle East art market be affected by political events?

      Sotheby's weathered a tough sale but strength in the market remains

      Art & DesignOctober 25, 2023
      An installation by anonymous artist Spy dubbed Orb: Under the Same Sun sits on the Pyramids plateau in Giza in 2022. The installation was part of the second edition of Forever Is Now by Art d’Egypte. Photo: Art d'Egypte
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      Art d'Egypte is putting Egyptian art back on the map

      Its free exhibition at the Pyramids of Giza, Forever Is Now, is returning for its third year

      Arts & CultureOctober 23, 2023
      Hallima Imane Zoubai performs Is Our Bread Ready Yet? at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany. Photo: Nicolas Wefers
      Moroccan artist finds her visual rhythm in Maghribi music

      Hallima Imane Zoubai uses sound as a visual rhythm in both her art as well as her performative pieces

      Arts & CultureOctober 02, 2023
      Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah shot with a wide-angle lens to give the landscape a greater role. Photo: Lux
      Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

      Documentary gives voice to villagers who lived through explosions and still suffer from deadly effects

      Arts & CultureSeptember 29, 2023
      The archaeological site with Christian remains and discoveries located in the middle of a Muslim graveyard at Muharraq, Bahrain. Khushnum Bhandari / The National
      Bahraini archaeology yields understanding of the movement of religion

      Professor Timothy Insoll examines the past two decades of discoveries in the country

      Arts & CultureSeptember 23, 2023
      Sharjah Art Museum will host the region's first large-scale retrospective of Samia Halaby. Photo: Samia Halaby / Ayyam Gallery
      Best global art exhibitions to look forward to this autumn

      From Sharjah to New York, Dubai to Vienna, The National picks the highlights from the upcoming season

      Arts & CultureSeptember 11, 2023
      Wallace Chan's brooch Forever Dancing – Wind's Tale is made of diamonds, garnets, crystals, mother-of-pearl, sapphires, porcelain and a real butterfly specimen. Photo: Wallace Chan / Christie's
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      Wallace Chan's fine jewellery butterflies sparkle in London

      The Wheel of Time, on display at Christie's, marks the artist's largest exhibition in Europe

      LuxurySeptember 09, 2023
      Charles Dickens imagined at his desk in the blacking factory by illustrator Frederick Barnard in 1904. Photo: Charles Dickens Museum
      Charles Dickens's time as child labourer explored in new display

      Beloved author's London museum brings to life dark and little known period of his life

      Arts & CultureSeptember 04, 2023
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