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#myDubai has been ranked the fourth most popular travel destination in the world this year!!!
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#Dubai has been ranked the fourth most popular travel destination in the world this year, according to a study by MasterCard. According to their annual travel study, ‘Global Destination Cities Index’, officials representing MasterCard were quoted as saying that Dubai is among the top 10 destinations for tourists in terms of total international overnight visitor arrivals and cross border spending. The global payments and Technology Company revealed that the study involved ranking 132 destination cities around the world, in which #London topped the list in 2015, followed by #Bangkok and #Paris. According to the study, Dubai is expected to receive almost 14.3 million international visitors this year, an increase of 8 per cent than the previous year.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum visited Expo Milano 2015
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His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the #UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of #Dubai, visited the#ExpoMilano2015 on Wednesday. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed toured the exhibition where 121 countries are currently participating. HH Sheikh Mohammed visited the UAE’s pavilion, organised by the National Media Council, where a number of national institutions are taking part to promote the country’s achievements. Hh Sheikh Mohammed also watched an eight-minute long mini feature film, ‘the Family Tree’ which follows a young girl, Sara, as she learns the values and experiences of past generations. H.H. Sheikh Mohammed instructed the chairman and members of the Expo 2020 Dubai Higher Preparatory Committee to pay attention to any shortfalls in the organisation of the Expo Milano 2015 in order to learn for #Expo2020 Dubai.
RAMADAN KAREEM!
A discussion on internet-inspired art in the Gulf at A4 Space
December 14, 2014 Updated: December 14, 2014 05:37 PM
Unlike the music, film and television industries, the art world hasn’t yet had its big moment of digital disruption.
It’s still paintings and sculptures that fill the blockbuster shows and break auction-house records, and curators and dealers still play their role as gatekeepers and arbiters of taste.
But a new generation of artists who grew up alongside computers in the 80s and 90s is starting to create work that is influenced by the time they spend online, from the subjects they address and the methods of production to the way the finished pieces are shown.
Everyone agrees that everything is changing – but no consensus has yet been reached on where we’re headed next.
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Global change
“Post-internet art” is the term that crops up most often as a description of work that couldn’t have existed before the digital age – although, like “hipster”, it is a label that people rarely use to describe their work.
Its stars include Ryan Trecartin, who makes bewildering videos full of babbling, face-painted quasi-humans and posts them online. Then there’s Cory Arcangel, who has exhibited hacked video games at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and sells clothes printed with early-90s web iconography through his website and at DIY art shows promoted on Twitter.
These artists seem to be circumventing traditional art-world institutions, and yet both have sold limited-edition and one-off work through the mainstream market for substantial sums.
Both artists are American, but the change that is happening is global.
This year alone, an exhibition called Art Post-Internet took place at Beijing’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art gallery; an anthology of essays called Uncommon Grounds was published, looking at the effect of new media and activism on art in the Middle East and North Africa; and Omar Kholeif, a curator at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, published another collection titled You Are Here: Art After the Internet. Artists who contributed include the Palestinian duo Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, and the Qatari-American artist Sophia Al Maria.
Expect a lot of chatter about post-internet art at Art Dubai in March. Global Art Forum, the debate series that runs alongside the fair, is titled Download Update? and is dedicated to the interplay between art and technology.
The programme is being put together by the Emirati curator, collector and writer Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, with the help of the technology entrepreneur Turi Munthe.
A series of talks leading up to the event kicks off on Monday, December 15, at A4 Space on Alserkal Avenue, where Sheikh Sultan will be in conversation with Kholeif about the digitally saturated future of art in the region.
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The discussion in Dubai
Kholeif is more interested in sparking debate than he is in coming up with conclusions about what’s happening at art’s frontiers. When selecting pieces for the book You Are Here, he deliberately chose contradictory arguments and thinkers who took wildly different approaches to the subject matter.
Rather than making sweeping predictions about the future, Kholeif is expecting to discuss specific, pragmatic topics at A4 such as: will collectors in the Gulf start to collect online and media-based works? How are attitudes to internet-aware art changing here?
When talking about this new type of artistic practice, Kholeif avoids the “post-internet” buzzword, instead talking about art that’s “internet aware”.
“I tend to seek work,” he says, “that is aware of the complex social and political hierarchies that influence a world where the internet has become second nature.”
When asked how artists respond to technology, he says that they don’t. “I think artists shift extant technology beyond its limits. They use it counter-intuitivelyagainst its purpose, opening up possibilities that otherwise may not have seemed obvious at first.” He adds that artists spark “a critical discussion about our reliance on technology”.
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A rising star
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, who splits his time between London and Beirut, is an artist whom Kholeif cites as important to this discussion. Abu Hamdan’s recent work has involved building audio archives made up of clips that have a legal or political dimension: tapes of interviews with asylum-seekers have been forensically examined to assess the speaker’s place of origin, for example, and recordings of Druze family members shouting to each other over the Israel-Syria border.
Abu Hamdan’s work isn’t explicitly about technology but it is internet-aware, in Kholeif’s opinion, because it helps us assess the way technology is being used and it’s part of an internet-enabled culture of archiving, remixing and interpreting.
Kholeif has been chosen as the curator of next year’s Armory Show, New York’s biggest art fair, which is held in early March, and he picked Abu Hamdan as the show’s official commissioned artist and “Menam” (Middle East, North Africa and the Mediterranean) as the thematic focus.
Abu Hamdan will help set the tone for the event, and the theme is intended to encourage the re-examination of traditional geographical dividing lines between artistic communities. Sheikh Sultan says that he plans to invite more thinkers to Dubai to discuss the field in the months leading up to the Global Art Forum in March.
With the future of the art-tech crossover wide open, it’s an exciting time to be discussing where things might go from here.
• Omar Kholeif in conversation with Sheikh Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi on Monday, December 15, 2014 at A4 Space, Alserkal Avenue
Celebrate with Art! Meet the Artist – Aliaa Bishr
Glory Art Gallery is happy to introduce you Aliaa Nagib Bishr – a young Egyptian Artist who has got a Bachelor’s degree, B.Sc. in Biotechnology 2010, graduated from Misr University for Science and Technology (M.U.S.T)
Also she’s got a number of certifications in field of fine arts:
Oil Painting Workshop
Preparation of an Artist Workshop
Sharjah Art Institute, 2 years Fine Arts Certification
Down below you can see an extensive list of Art exhibitions where Aliaa has taken part:
- DAF group exhibition, Impact Hub, Souq Al Bahaar, Dubai U.A.E 2014
- Al Tawasoull Exhibition, Emirates Fine Art Society, Sharjah U.A.E 2014
- Letters and Words of Al Dhad Language, Emirates Fine Art Society,
Islamic Arts Festival, Sharjah U.A.E 2014 - Open Studio, Cultural and scientific Association , Dubai, U.A.E 2013
- Jewels and Pearls exhibition, Sharjah Art Institute, Sharjah, U.A.E 2013
- Addition exhibition, Sharjah Art Institute, Sharjah, U.A.E 2013
- Encounters exhibition, Sharjah Art Institute, Sharjah, U.A.E 2012
- Visual Dialogue exhibition, Sharjah Art Institute, Sharjah, U.A.E 2012
- Version # 1 exhibition, Cairo Atelier, Cairo, Egypt 2011
- Egypt’s Smile exhibition, Alexandria, Egypt 2011
- Egyptian Treasure exhibition, Cairo, Egypt 2010
- The Nuba Noto exhibition at Talaat Harb culture centre (Nubian Arts & Culture week)2010
- The Nuba Noto (Nubian Day) , Cairo, Egypt 2010
- The 1st Student Art exhibition at MUST Gallery, Cairo, Egypt 2007
Aliaa ‘s participated in National Day at the Cultural and Scientific Association, Dubai U.A.E 2013 .
She also had solo exhibition “Touches of Colour” at Arab Cultural Centre, Sharjah, U.A.E in 2013.
Aliaa’s got excellent skills in Drawing with different materials, Oil Paints, Acrylics, Mixed Media, Collages, also fond of Photography and Photo Editing.
Meet the Artist:
Aliaa Bishr
Aliaa is a Member of Emirates Fine Arts Society & Egyptian Colours and Creations Fine Arts Society.
Do you feel music in the air? ))
Aliaa’s artwork is about the traditional Emirati “Ayala” dance, this simple and meaningful dance inspired her artwork.
She was keen to capture the spirit of the UAE National Day celebration and the flag colors decoration, all Emirati dancers and drummers are moving in harmony to celebrate their national day.
We were happy to work together & thank Aliaa for her talent with courage & enthusiasm to present so beautiful artwork for the UAE National Day, thank you, Aliaa!
To get more info on artworks created by Aliaa please contact Glory Art Gallery
@ M. / whatsapp: +971 58 570 2103 dubaionpalm@gmail.com
43rd UAE National Day – Celebrate with art!
43 UAE National Day – Celebrate with art!
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43rd UAE National Day Celebration – Shamsa @ Mirdif City Centre
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