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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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Maha Mullah's monumental cassette-tape work Food for Thought “World Map” is on show at Galerie Krinziger in Basel. Courtesy Galerie Krinzinger, Photo: Peter Hoiss
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Arab artists and intriguing works at Art Basel

The art fair is taking place in Switzerland this week

ArtJune 17, 2022
A mud brick bearing a cuneiform inscription is seen during excavation at the ancient Sumerian city of Girsu, now known as Tello, in Iraq's al-Shatrah district of the southern Dhi Qar province on November 14, 2021. AFP
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New discoveries in Iraq upend story of Mesopotamia

Exhibition by the British Museum highlights new findings by the Girsu Project

ArtJune 14, 2022
Tarek Al-Ghoussein poses for his portrait amid samples of his work at The Third Line gallery in Dubai on February 12, 2009. Rich-Joseph Facun / The National
Tarek Al-Ghoussein: an important artist and mentor

The Kuwaiti-Palestinian pictured the world as a field – often empty or desolate – in which he sought his place

ArtJune 14, 2022
'When It Didn't Cut' (2022) by Mounira Al Solh, who is nominated for the 10th Artes Mundi prize. Photo: Sfeir-Semler Gallery
Kuwaiti and Lebanese artists nominated for prestigious £40,000 UK prize

Alia Farid and Mounira Al Solh are some of the candidates in the running to scoop the Artes Mundi award

ArtJune 09, 2022
Etel Adnan's 'Landscape' (circa 1990) is compared to paintings by Van Gogh in a new exhibition. Photo: The Estate of Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan paired with Van Gogh in Amsterdam exhibition

Works of the late Lebanese artist are being shown alongside the famous Dutch painter in Colour as Language

Arts & CultureMay 26, 2022
Budoor Al Riyami creates facsimiles of peridotite rocks, which are said to inhale carbon dioxide, in her installation 'Breathe' (2022) for Oman's National Pavilion. Photo: David Levene
Inside Oman's first Venice Biennale pavilion

Past, present and future cross over one another in the group show featuring five artists

Arts & CultureMay 20, 2022
The installation 'Al-Burkan' by Fadel Al Mheiri at Dirwaza Curatorial Lab's exhibition Zemanna in Abu Dhabi. Al Mheiri celebrates the pastimes of the 1990s, such as the popular game Connect 4. Victor Besa / The National
New fund launched for UAE's creative talents

The peer-led Dirwaza Curatorial Lab is looking to support open-ended projects

ArtMay 13, 2022
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is set for completion in 2025. Photo: DCT Abu Dhabi
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Guggenheim Abu Dhabi announces new project director

Stephanie Rosenthal comes from the Gropius Bau in Berlin

ArtMay 13, 2022
London Gallery Weekend is back with 150 galleries, including Goodman Gallery's presentation of work by the Egyptian-American artist Ghada Amer, whose work is pictured here. Photo: The artist / Goodman Gallery
Saudi artist and Indian artworks feature at London Gallery Weekend

The 'world's largest gallery weekend' is hosting 150 galleries from the UK capital, with works by international artists

ArtMay 13, 2022
Khalil Rabah subverts fact through fictional structures that in turn make us question reality. Photo: Khalil Rabah
What's real? The question posed by Khalil Rabah in Sharjah retrospective

His challenging retrospective asks what is not, rather than what is

WeekendMay 06, 2022
Zineb Sedira's pavilion features a cinema in which viewers can watch her film — about cinema. Photo: Thierry Bal
Four Venice Biennale national pavilions of note, including France and Estonia

A total of 58 countries are represented in national pavilions showcasing 213 individual artists this year

Arts & CultureApril 30, 2022
Simone Leigh's sculpture of an eyeless African-American woman, surrounded by Cuban artist Belkis Ayon's prints of a secret Afro-Cuban society, set the tone for the biennial's interrogation of spirituality and justice. Photo: Roberto Marossi
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Venice Biennale's 'Milk of Dreams' highlights great artists often overlooked

Curator Cecilia Alemani casts a wide net, bringing together striking works from Eritrea to Algeria, making a case for representation in the art world

Arts & CultureApril 28, 2022
Muhannad Shono's 'The Teaching Tree' was inspired by a line of ink. Photo: The Visual Arts Commission, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's Muhannad Shono introduces his 'monster' in Venice

The installation is 'an act of creative resistance' and symbolic of the changes occurring in his country, says the Riyadh artist

ArtApril 25, 2022
Emirati artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim’s installation of 128 sculptures, Between Sunrise and Sunset, has opened at the Venice Biennale's National Pavilion UAE. All photos: Ismail Noor / National Pavilion UAE
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Inside Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim's exhibition at Venice Biennale

'Between Sunrise and Sunset' is an homage to the renowned Emirati artist's hometown of Khor Fakkan

ArtApril 21, 2022
Hesam Rahmanian, Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh in their home and studio in Dubai. Photo: Maaziar Sadr
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Dubai art collective emphasises spirit of collaboration in Abu Dhabi show

First institutional retrospective of work by Ramin and Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian is at NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery

ArtApril 10, 2022
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