Melissa Gronlund

The Getty will launch a $100 million, ten-year initiative, with Abu Dhabi as a partner

The Lebanese-Japanese duo are behind the Jameel Arts Centre and a pavilion at d3

The painter, and daughter of Lebanon's first president, created canvases of exquisite beauty

The answer includes underwater-poetry listening and performances in the desert

Banksy does it again: the British Parliament as a bunch of chimps goes on auction

Many of your friendships will be made at the pool or in soft-play centres, the UAE equivalent of neighbourhood playgrounds

The programme includes solo exhibitions by Saudi artist Sarah Abu Abdallah and Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz

Why European portrayals of the Middle East have become popular with the people they depict

The daughter of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid has worked at the authority since its set up

The substantial paintings and sculptures that Pei acquired with his wife Eileen are to be sold by Christie's months after the architect's death

'Their work has not been catalogued, has not been documented, has not been stocked by galleries. There’s an element of male chauvinism: it was seen as being of lesser value,' Al Qassemi tells us

The Amman show explores what we can learn from the activism of 1968

The Jerusalem-born artist was the first to tell the history of Palestinian art

Co-curator Tairone Bastien tells us what to expect from the city’s inaugural biennial

"It’s more important than ever to shine a different light on the region," says the Middle East Institute’s vice-president