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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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An artwork by Marwan, a Syrian artist who depicts the face with lanscape-like properties, such as its ravines and peaks, on show as Within/Without at Manarat Al Saadiyat. Photo courtesy of NYU Abu Dhabi
'Art is to be shared': Zaki Nusseibeh lends collection to students

Nine students were split into three groups, each tackling the steps of putting an exhibition together: 'I am impressed by the choices of the students,' says Nusseibeh

ArtDecember 02, 2018
Salama Al Shamsi is the newly appointed director of Qasr Al Hosn. DCT Abu Dhabi
DCT Abu Dhabi appoints director of Qasr Al Hosn

Al Shamsi is the former senior project manager of the Zayed National Museum

ArtNovember 30, 2018
Maram Kassab and Mariam Ayoub’s ‘Qasa’ed’ on display. Courtesy NYUAD
Award-winning architects find their inspiration in Abu Dhabi’s desert

'Qasa’ed [Poems] takes inspiration from the desert landscape of the UAE. It is an imitation of poetry, one of the key traditions of the Bedouins.'

ArtNovember 28, 2018
Zhivago Duncan's 'Rising Meteor Shower' (2018)
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Zhivago Duncan celestial works try to make sense of everything

He creates otherworldly works that would be maddening if they weren’t so beautiful

ArtNovember 28, 2018
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - SEPTEMBER 19, 2018. Hazem Harb in his studio. Born In 1980 In Gaza; Palestinian artist Hazem Harb's work deals with core issues including war, loss, trauma, human vulnerability and global instability. (Photo by Reem Mohammed/The National) Reporter: Melissa Gronlund Section: AC
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Artist Hazem Harb's excavation of the Palestinian past

The artist pieces together old maps and photos, creating collages of Palestine’s past. He talks us through his process

ArtNovember 27, 2018
The appointment last year of Noura Al Kaabi as Minister of Culture and Knowledge Development was seen by many as a significant recognition of the role that women play in culture. “It means so much for women in the workplace to have a woman representing the entire cultural sector of the nation,” says Vilma Jurkute, director of Alserkal Avenue.
The influential female voices shaping the UAE art scene

'Talent, and not gender, is what should define you in the art world,' says Minister of Culture Noura Al Kaabi

ArtNovember 27, 2018
Saudi artist Ahmed Mater. Courtesy Ahmed Mater
Saudi artist Ahmed Mater: 'Art and culture now is about exchange, dialogue'

The 39-year-old artist discusses his cancelled talk at Columbia University and the future of the Misk Art Institute

ArtNovember 25, 2018
Antonia Carver, Director of Art Jameel, pictured in November 2018 at the new Jameel Arts Center in Dubai. The centre is one of the first independent not-for-profit contemporary arts institutions in the city. Photo by Reem Mohammed / The National
Antonia Carver: 'travel teaches us a sense of the extreme enormity of the world beyond our own four walls'

The director of Art Jameel on her favourite places, tips and lessons learnt on the road

November 25, 2018
Visitors check out the art work at the Sfeir-Semler Gallery at Abu Dhabi Art at Manarat Al Saadiyat. Pawan Singh / The National
Abu Dhabi Art celebrates a decade of culture in the capital

Annual event still has a key role to play in UAE's flourishing arts scene

ArtNovember 17, 2018
Monira Al Qadiri poses next to one of the hoardings using her work for Abu Dhabi Art's visual campaign. Pawan Singh / The National
Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri lands in Abu Dhabi

The Kuwaiti artist connects the Gulf's pre- and postmodern economies

ArtNovember 17, 2018
The structure that houses the film by Marysia Lewandowska, second from left, was designed by, from left, Aram Mooradian, Summer Islam and George Massoud of MMI Architects. Pawan Singh / The National
How Marysia Lewandowska found inspiration in UAE home movies

“I rely on archives – what exists and circulates in the country,” says the artist

ArtNovember 15, 2018
An attendee looks at art on display at the Al Burda Festival at Warehouse 421 in Abu Dhabi. Leslie Pableo for The National
Al Burda celebration of Islamic art launched in Abu Dhabi

A full-day programme of talks and performances at Warehouse421 culminates in an awards ceremony held in conjunction with NYU Abu Dhabi

ArtNovember 14, 2018
Jameel Arts Centre will test how we think about art in Dubai. Reem Mohammed / The National
Why Dubai needs the Jameel Arts Centre

But its first challenge will be familiar to many in Dubai: its neighbourhood of Al Jaddaf is still being developed

CommentNovember 13, 2018
Louvre Abu Dhabi welcomed one million visitors in its first year. Hufton + Crow
One million people visited Louvre Abu Dhabi in its first year

'My job is to plan. My job is to anticipate,' says museum director Manuel Rabate, as Louvre Abu Dhabi acquires new pieces, with the loans from Agence France-Museums beginning to go home

ArtNovember 11, 2018
A project by Amman’s Turbo Design Studio, which will be at Fikra Design Biennial. Courtesy Fikra Design Biennial
Here's what to expect from the first ever Fikra Design Biennial in Sharjah

The month long event promises to push the boundaries of the influential craft

ArtNovember 11, 2018
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