The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Now Showing: Youssef Nabil’s I Saved My Belly Dancer, marking the first public screening of the film since its acquisition by the museum in 2025. Centred on Youssef Nabil’s 2015 film…
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Silent Residues is the first solo exhibition by Ammar Al Attar, a leading voice in the UAE’s contemporary avant-garde scene, on view at Iris Projects’ MiZa space until 26 November 2025. Curated by Nasser Abdullah, the exhibition reflects Al Attar’s…
We Design Beirut is one week away from transforming into a living canvas. Five landmark locations, each carrying its own intimate history with Beirut, will open as spaces for reflection, re-imagination, and rediscovery of a city ridden with triumphs and…
The first solo exhibition in the UAE of independent artist-designer Banafsheh Hemmati is hosted from 9 to 31 October 2025 at Satellite Gallery, DIFC. Titled Body Geometry, the exhibition brings together wearable jewellery and sculpture in a unified yet shifting…
Louvre Abu Dhabi unveils Mamluks: Legacy of an Empire, a landmark exhibition exploring the splendour and influence of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the most powerful dynasties in Islamic history. Bringing together more than 270 masterpieces from 34 leading…
Both creative and destructive, vital and deadly, fire has captivated humanity since the dawn of time. It flickers in myth and ritual, warms the domestic sphere, and devastates in moments of violence. Fire, the new exhibition at the Boghossian Foundation’s…
The Visual Arts Commission has launched Art Bridges 2025–2026, a new initiative dedicated to professional development and cultural exchange for Saudi and Saudi-based artists and practitioners. Designed as a series of international programmes, Art Bridges’s first programme took place in…
Aidha Badr portrays the quiet transformation of the self that occurs with motherhood in her new solo exhibition I’m Never Coming Back on view until 7 November 2025 at Firetti Contemporary, in collaboration with Hunna Art Gallery. In this exhibition,…
Tashkeel has reopened its Nad Al Sheba 1 Gallery with Of Liminal Threads, the debut solo exhibition by Syrian-Lebanese artist and designer Ranim Al Halaky. The exhibition is the culmination of her year-long journey as part of Tashkeel’s Critical Practice…
Maraya Art Centre has opened SILA. All That Is Left to You, an exhibition that turns to Palestinian embroidery, or tatreez, as both cultural inheritance and artistic language. The opening of the exhibition was marked by the presence of HE…