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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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Elisabeth Wild Untitled (154), 2018 Collage on paper 18.5 x 17.7 cm 7 1/4 x 7 in (ELW009) Photo: Copyright the Artist Courtesy of Carbon 12 and Proyectos Ultravioleta
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The 97-year-old artist who fled the Nazis brings her work to Dubai

Elisabeth Wild has made a selection of collages for Carbon 12 in Alserkal Avenue

ArtMarch 04, 2019
Sharjah's new Africa Institute has held its first international event at Tate Modern. Getty.
Sharjah's new Africa Institute holds first international event in London

A conference at Tate Modern looked at the histories of solidarity movements and liberation groups

ArtMarch 04, 2019
HE Noura Al Kaabi, the Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development, oversaw the use of AI to meet new challenges for Islamic design - she is seen here speaking at the Al Burda Festival. Photo: Leslie Pableo for The National
UAE ministry uses AI to suggest the future of Islamic design

Its Swarm AI analysis resulted in the establishment of the Al Burda Endowment, a new funding scheme that aims to support the making of Islamic art in a new century

ArtFebruary 28, 2019
The Salvator Mundi Experience by Simon Fujiwara and David Kohn Architects. Courtesy Whitechapel Gallery
An exhibition featuring an ode to the Salvator Mundi opens in London

An artist and architect are inspired by the pop-cultural importance of the work in a new collaboration

ArtFebruary 14, 2019
Photographer Andrew Moore. Courtesy Andrew Moore
Renowned photographer returns to find a changed Abu Dhabi

The well-known photographer has focused on the capital for a decade, honing in on its diversity

ArtFebruary 10, 2019
Rembrandt's 'The Head of a Young Man in Prayer' being uncrated at Louvre Abu Dhabi. Courtesy Louvre Abu Dhabi.
Brush with genius: Louvre Abu Dhabi unveils its first Rembrandt

Rembrandt’s masterful oil sketch of Christ is the first of his works to ever join a museum collection in the Gulf

ArtFebruary 10, 2019
A Village by Mohamed Sabry. Courtesy of Barjeel Art Foundation
Egyptian artist Mohamed Sabry dies at 100

He was known for a beautiful use of colours in his Maghrebi landscapes

ArtFebruary 05, 2019
An untitled 1998 work, a medley of symbols around a central Nubian figure. Courtesy Lawrie Shabibi
Fathi Hassan: a veteran Egyptian artist who deserves more attention

His work takes in his journey from his Nubian community to his days as a 'wild Neapolitan'

ArtFebruary 04, 2019
Dana Awartani uses poetry in her work. Courtesy of Jameel Arts Centre
Dana Awartani: 'I'm not a refugee, and my parents are supportive'

At Sharjah's Maraya Art Centre, the artist's new exhibition, The Silence Between Us, pushes beyond the East-meets-West narrative

ArtFebruary 04, 2019
Mohamed Mahdy’s works look into the effect of toxic dust on residents of Moon Valley, Egypt. Courtesy GPP
GPP Photo Week 2019: A focus on Arab documentary photography

The event in Dubai highlights the important role of photography as a form of storytelling

ArtFebruary 03, 2019
Al Balad is undergoing a cultural renaissance. Willy Lowry / The National
21, 39 Jeddah Arts celebrates the myths of its old town

This year’s theme overall is Al Obour, or “crossing” – such as the new crossing into the old, the exterior crossing into the inside and, crucially, different generations crossing paths.

ArtFebruary 03, 2019
A 1974 oil painting by Samir Rafi, in which a wolf snarls in the face of a caged man. Courtesy of Ubuntu Gallery and Green Art Gallery, Dubai.
Spotlight on Samir Rafi: a new exhibition at Green Art Gallery

Green Art Gallery has mounted a show to celebrate the works of the Egyptian surrealist painter

ArtJanuary 30, 2019
Poet and filmmaker Nujoom Alghanem will represent the UAE at the Venice Biennale later this year. Courtesy National Pavilion UAE
Dubai poet and filmmaker to represent the UAE at Venice Biennale 2019

Nujoom Alghanem is a significant figure in the history of modern UAE culture

ArtJanuary 29, 2019
Chant Avedissian's 'You Are Love' (2008), of Egyptian diva Umm Kulthum. Courtesy Barjeel Art Foundation
Egyptian-Armenian artist Chant Avedissian dies at 67

Avedissian's work celebrated pop and folk culture

ArtJanuary 29, 2019
Turkish barbers in the 1870s-90s, from the Abdullah Freres studio. Part of the newly digitised Gigord Collection at the Getty Research Institute. Courtesy Getty Research Institute
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A treasure trove of Ottoman Empire photographs now available online

Thousands of images have been made freely available by the Getty Research Institute

ArtJanuary 29, 2019
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