Manar Abu Dhabi 2025: ‘The Light Compass’

Manar Abu Dhabi returns for its second edition, bringing 22 site-specific light artworks to Jubail Island, Souq Al Mina, and, for the first time, Al Ain’s UNESCO-listed Al Qattara and Al Jimi Oases. Following its debut in Al Ain on…

Your Guide to Alserkal Art Week 2025

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 2025: Designing the Unspoken at Ithra

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…

Forever Is Now 05: Art at the Edge of Time

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…

Maysaloun Faraj: Roots & Horizons: T/Racing Time

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’ at Beit Beirut Urban Observatory

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…

Image Keepers at Sharjah Art Foundation

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…

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