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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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Kamal Boullata died in 2019 at the age of 77. Joanna Masel
Remembering Kamal Boullata: How the artist helped pioneer Arab Modernism

As Boullata is celebrated with a UK exhibition, we explore how the artist’s work has contributed to the canon

ArtJanuary 29, 2020
Christie’s initially delayed its auction until June, but has decided to push it out further, in anticipation of some form of reopening. Photo courtesy Christie's
Christie's scales down its Middle Eastern sales

The auction house will now be holding only one sale a year, in London, cancelling its second sale previously held in Dubai

ArtJanuary 23, 2020
Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz poses in front of his sculpture 'The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist' in Trafalgar Square in London. AFP
MoMa PS1 protest: artists call out questionable philanthropy

Artists are protesting the affiliation between Leon Black, the chairman of MoMA, and Constellis Group, the private military contractor formerly known as Blackwater

January 21, 2020
A graffiti-covered backdrop is typical of New York. Courtesy Farah Al Qasimi
Through the lens: New York City bus shelters to get a new look

Images by the Emirati photographer will adorn 100 bus shelters in the big apple, highlighting immigrant neighbourhoods in the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn

ArtJanuary 21, 2020
Laura Boushnak travelled to Gaza to meet women for whom the blockade has stymied their hopes of pursuing further education.
How photographer Laura Boushnak is celebrating Arab women challenging norms

Palestinian photographer Laura Boushnak captures Arab women who are overcoming barriers to education

ArtJanuary 18, 2020
Mohammad Younus Nomani's photograph 'An Orange Leaf in a Green Tree', Kashmir (2018), will be shown at the upcoming Lahore Biennial. Courtesy Mohammad Younus Nomani / Lahore Biennale Foundation
The second Lahore Biennial announces full artists' list

Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi will curate the exhibition, which addresses exchange between Pakistan and the UAE

ArtJanuary 16, 2020
Tarek Abou El Fetouh, shown here in 2009 when he co-curated the Sharjah Biennial. Nicole Hill / The National
Tarek Abou El Fetouh to curate arts programme for Expo 2020 Dubai

Around 20 artists will create permanent artworks for Expo's Dubai site

ArtJanuary 09, 2020
Chaouki Choukini at work in France, where he lives. Courtesy Green Art Gallery
Carving a niche: how Chaouki Choukini creates abstract sculptures

The Lebanese artist chisels intricate, sombre sculptures, pockmarked with hope. Melissa Gronlund untangles them

ArtDecember 29, 2019
Michelangelo Pistoletto’s ‘Perzone in Communicazione’ (2019) is a mirror that also has images of people on it, as seen above, who appear to be reflections. Ahmed Al Thani
Ithra’s Mirrors exhibition reflects new Saudi art scene

We take a closer look at how the kingdom is benefiting from the centre in Dhahran

ArtDecember 22, 2019
Kader Attia, ‘Repair from Occident to Extra-Occidental Cultures,’ 2012.
Perfect 10: the artworks that shaped the past decade

We ask the experts for the works of art that made them weep with joy

ArtDecember 19, 2019
Fahad bin Naif, the Saudi artist who is the winner of the third Ithra Art Prize. Courtesy the artist
Winner of Ithra Art Prize questions Gulf environmental sustainability

Fahad bin Naif's installation mimicking a greenhouse will go on show at Art Dubai in March

ArtDecember 17, 2019
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius’s 1957 design for a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq Harvard Art Museums / Busch- Reisinger Museum
Dubai exhibition traces the footprints of Bauhaus in the region

We chart how the 100-year-old movement has roots in the Middle East

ArtDecember 16, 2019
A fountain on display as part of Structures of Impermanence, an exhibition by Syrian artist Talin Hazbar. Courtesy Warehouse421
Far from home, traditional Syrian fountains return to Warehouse421

We talk to artist Talin Hazbar about the significance of these structures at her new exhibition

ArtDecember 16, 2019
The show takes place in several small rooms. Courtesy Ahmed Al Thani
Ithra puts contemporary art in focus for Saudi public with photography exhibition

The exhibition features work by Hazem Harb, Tasneem Al Sultan, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Sultan bin Fahad

ArtDecember 15, 2019
A work by artist Bani Abidi from her 2019-2020 exhibition Funland at Sharjah Art Foundation. Abidi was a 2010 grantee of the foundation's Production Programme. Sharjah Art Foundation
Bani Abidi's ‘Funland’ offers a serious take on life in Karachi

The Pakistani artist tells The National how the bustling city became her muse

ArtDecember 08, 2019
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