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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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      Mother and child by Munira Al-Kazi
      The GCC art Sotheby's and Christie's are auctioning and what it's expected to fetch

      Sotheby’s and Christie’s are auctioning works from renowned GCC artists this month. We look at the stories behind some of the pieces

      ArtOctober 01, 2018
      Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi. Photo by Nato Welton
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      How Sheikha Hoor Al Qasimi brought new life to Sharjah's arts scene

      After being appointed to the committee overseeing the Sharjah Biennial, she eventually took the exhibition over and turned it into an important stop on the art world calendar

      ArtSeptember 29, 2018
      Camille Zakharia's Out Done (2013). Victor Besa / The National
      In the Frame: What Camille Zakharia's latest work says about his experience with immigration

      Out Done is part of a solo show, Redefining Space: Between Borders, at Warehouse421 in Abu Dhabi, staged by Cuadro Fine Art, in which the Beirut-born artist ruminates on the idea of lines and borders.

      ArtSeptember 29, 2018
      Manal Ataya, the director-general of Sharjah Museums Authority, with H.E. Ludovic Pouille, French Ambassador to the UAE. Photo / Supplied
      Manal Ataya and Hissa Al Dhaheri given top honours by France

      'It’s wonderful when people recognise the work that we do behind the scenes and in front of the scenes, and that France is so gracious in this way'

      ArtSeptember 27, 2018
      Omar Kholeif pictured at the Sharjah Art Foundation
      Omar Kholeif unveils his Sharjah Biennial plans

      'My dream is to see a major commission by James Turrell in the UAE,' says the Egyptian curator

      ArtSeptember 27, 2018
      Traditional coffee (gahwa) is made at a camp site at Qasr al Hosn fort. Photo: Silvia Razgova / Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi
      Are you drinking that Arabic coffee properly?

      Abu Dhabi's new Bait Al Gahwa scheme introduces visitors to the correct way to go about the UNESCO-protected practice of Arabic coffee

      ArtSeptember 27, 2018
      Africa Hall, Sharjah Courtesy of The Africa Institute
      Sharjah's new Africa Hall to house the Africa Institute

      Sharjah's Africa Hall will reopen on September 25

      ArtSeptember 25, 2018
      Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi with Egyptian artist Ahmad Morsi at his home in New York City. Photo / Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi
      Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi: New York 'breathed life' into me

      In a candid interview, the Emirati art expert talks about his habit of cleaning plane bathrooms and how New York lifted him out of a time when his 'spirit was broken'

      September 24, 2018
      Work by Sunil Gawde from the series called Blind Bulbs
      A guide to Galleries' Night at Alserkal Avenue

      We look at what's on display at the new exhibitions gearing for Galleries' Night at Alserkal Avenue

      ArtSeptember 18, 2018
      Ameena Khalfan Aljarman tells the story of the pearl and date trade in sculptures made of plaster, pearlescent paint, and date syrup.
      The different strokes of Seaf: 16 new artists display their works

      In its fifth year, the Sheikha Salama Emerging Artist Fellowship continues to nurture artists, writes Melissa Gronlund

      ArtSeptember 15, 2018
      Idris Khan says the process of making the award-winning Wahat Al Karama was particularly intense. Victor Besa / The National
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      Memorial artist on the 'overwhelming' nature of Wahat Al Karama

      The artist says he could not create new work for a year-and-a-half after finishing the Abu Dhabi monument, which has just won the CODAworx design and art award

      ArtSeptember 11, 2018
      Maurice Denis's 1891 'October Evening' uses a female figure to show the stages of life.RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
      Louvre Abu Dhabi’s new exhibition: Japanese and French cultures explored side by side

      The show displays the dreamlike paintings of France’s Les Nabis society of artists alongside Japan’s ukiyo-e works they borrowed from

      ArtSeptember 10, 2018
      The Palestine Museum US opened in Connecticut in April this year, to give prominence in America to Palestinian culture Hector Retamal AFP
      The Palestinian museum in the US with big ambitions

      Entrepreneur Faisal Saleh’s space is America’s first to house works purely from Palestine. We find out it is about more than the art inside

      ArtSeptember 09, 2018
      A rendering of Dubai’s Jameel Arts Centre. Courtesy Serie
      Here's what to expect from Dubai's new Jameel Arts Centre

      Dubai contemporary art space offers a first glimpse of its inaugural programme ahead of November opening

      ArtSeptember 06, 2018
      Early childhood development is full of these terrifying claims. Getty
      Baby-led weaning? One mother offers her take on this 'new' trend

      Baby-led weaning is another one of those new terms for old things that parents knew how to do anyway

      FamilySeptember 05, 2018
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