There’s something quietly powerful about watching a city define itself through light. In Dubai, that feels especially true. This November, Dhai Dubai returned to Al Wasl Plaza at Expo City Dubai – an architectural heart that has itself become a…
EXHIBITIONS
The 28th edition of Paris Photo wrapped up last week after welcoming 75,000 visitors and closing major transactions. From the outset, the fair carried a lively energy, anchored by Sophie Ristelhueber’s monumental installation at the Grand Palais. Stretching nearly forty…
Alserkal Avenue announces Uprooted as the theme for its November edition of Alserkal Art Week, a moment that reflects on the displacements shaping contemporary life and the quiet forms of resilience that follow. This iteration turns to the aftermath of…
Tanween, the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture’s (Ithra) flagship design event, returns for its eighth edition this week from 17 to 22 November in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, . Building on the success of 2024, Tanween transforms Ithra into a…
Cairo Design Week (CDW), one of the region’s fastest-growing platform for design and creativity, has launched its first-ever campaign, Design, So I Can See You. More than a campaign, it serves as a manifesto for CDW 2025, the most ambitious…
Art D’Égypte by Culturvator has announced that the fifth edition of its annual international exhibition Forever Is Now will take place from 11 November until 7 December 2025. Initially scheduled for October, the new schedule aligns the exhibition with the…
Roots & Horizons: T/Racing Time marks Iraqi artist Maysaloun Faraj’s first solo exhibition in Kuwait, presented by Contemporary Art Platform (CAP). Spanning two decades of her practice, the exhibition offers an intimate and layered encounter with Faraj’s evolving visual language,…
Beirut al-Marfa’ examines the deep and often fraught relationship between Beirut and its port, a space that once fuelled the city’s prosperity but later became the site of its devastation on August 4, 2020. Since the nineteenth century, city and…
Sharjah Art Foundation inaugurates its new Photography Gallery with Image Keepers, on view from 8 November 2025 until 26 April 2026. The exhibition brings together over 50 works by 17 artists and collectives from the Foundation’s collection curated by Jiwon…
The Nuhad Es-Said Pavilion for Culture inaugurates a new programme that reconnects Lebanon with its artistic presence on the global stage. For nearly two decades, the country’s national pavilions at the Venice Biennale have reflected its evolving creative voice. Now,…