The Bulletin bringing you the latest highlights in the art world FEBRUARY 2026 Ramzi Mallat to Open Leighton House Centennial with Arab Hall Commission In March 21, 2026, Ramzi Mallat will inaugurate the centenary programme at Leighton House with Atlas…
Manal AlDowayan’s artistic journey did not begin with childhood sketches or early declarations of vocation. It emerged gradually, shaped by lived experience, observation, and a sustained negotiation between parallel worlds. Raised in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia within the…
To mark its 15th anniversary, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art presents two exhibitions that reflect on its institutional legacy while engaging urgently with the present. Together, Resolutions: Celebrating 15 Years of Mathaf and we refuse_d frame the museum as both…
The Prince Mohammed bin Salman Global Center for Arabic Calligraphy, an initiative of the Saudi Ministry of Culture, has launched the second edition of the Dar Al Qalam Residency Programme, now entering its final phase until 16 January 2026 in…
Presented in collaboration with the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation (JNAF) and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS), Mumbai, Resonant Histories: India and the Arab World opened at the Jehangir Nicholson Art Foundation, CSMVS, and remains on view until 15…
In That Same Hour is an exhibition unfolding across multiple buildings at the Darat al Funun – The Khalid Shoman Foundation and remaining on view until 31 May 2026. Emerging from a period marked by sustained violence, displacement, and erasure,…
Echoes of the Familiar, an exhibition examining the idea of “home” through contemporary artistic practices in Saudi Arabia is on view at the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra). Curated by curator Gaida AlMogren, the exhibition brings together 28…
Mix & Match brings together a group of artists whose practices span painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and text-based work, assembling a deliberately layered exhibition that treats the gallery as a site of visual collage. Rather than presenting discrete bodies of…
Self-portrait with a cat I don’t have marks Bady Dalloul’s first institutional solo exhibition in the United Arab Emirates. Curated by Lucas Morin, the exhibition forms the second chapter of Dalloul’s ongoing Land of Dreams series, following its presentation in Tokyo…
At Ayyam Gallery, The Fire’s Edge brings together key bodies of work by Ali Kaaf (A.K), marking his first solo exhibition with the gallery and offering a focused entry point into a practice shaped by material tension and restraint. Working…