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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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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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