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Design as Reform

As Traffic Gallery in Dubai’s design competition Volume 2 enters the last month before its deadline for entries brownbook talks to one of last year’s winners. ..  Read More
 
BAC Celebrates Anniversary

Reflecting back on its first year, Beirut Art Center (BAC) co-founder, Sandra Dagher, feels her instincts confirmed. When she began to establish the BAC with local artist, Lamia Joreige, in 2004, the two noted a need for not only a space for contemporary art and the artists of that genre, but a platform for expanding audiences of contemporary art...  Read More
 
Women and Art

Sharjah Ladies Club will unveil a month long international exhibition entitled Women and Art later this week...  Read More
 
The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum

Frequently painted with vivid, unnatural colours and unconventional materials or loose brushwork, the paintings of the exhibition The Guggenheim: The Making of a Museum represent the innovation of art types such as abstractionism, expressionism and cubism in the 20th century. ..  Read More
 
The Dark Lens – The Dubai Invasion

Combining droid armies and villains from Star Wars with sceneries of Dubai in his exhibition The Dark Lens – The Dubai Invasion, French photographer Cédric Delsaux aims to prove that we live in a world of science fiction.

The final instalment of Delsaux's The Dark Lens trilogy – previous works have been shot in Paris and Lille, France – is shown in Dubai's The Empty Quarter Fine Art Photography Gallery...  Read More
 
thejamjar raises the curtain

Dubai Drama Group (DDG) will act out eight plays about the UAE's evolving culture scene on three consecutive nights starting Thursday (December 10) at thejamjar. The one-act plays, titled New Developments, range from stories about lunching ladies to those of passionate young Emirati's. The eight pieces are written by the finalists of the UAE's first playwriting competition launched by DDG, which performs at Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre, in summer for its 25th anniversary...  Read More
 
Urban Awards - Rami farook

Sometimes when you want something done you simply have to do it yourself and that is exactly what Rami Farook did when he founded Traffic gallery in Dubai.
A mixed used space combining design gallery, studio, furniture store and place for events and screening, Traffic is a bringing together of the creative classes according to Farook. Having bought his first apartment in 2006, the 28-year-old Emirati, was leafing through magazines for ideas on furniture and realised that none of the brands he was interested in had a home in his home city. ..  Read More
 
Comedian Lamya Tawfik

“Veiled women are generally thought of as being shy and not open about their feelings or thoughts, but I break every one of these stereotypes, proudly,” says veiled woman comedian Lamya Tawfik. The 32-year-old Egyptian, who lives in Dubai, even sees the fact that she's on stage performing stand-up comedy as tackling a stereotype.

Tawfik first got into stand-up comedy when she joined a workshop for budding comedians held by Aron Kader, one of the members of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour. As part of the workshop, she and the other comedians performed in a show and Tawfik immediately “became addicted to the number one drug in showbiz: applause”. ..  Read More
 
Mojo - a new addition to the Dubai art scene

Having recently opened with an exhibition by renowned South African artist Gail Caitlin, Mojo Gallery in Al Quoz, Dubai is striving to bridge the creative gap between fine art and commercial art.
The Gallery is the brainchild of Kurt Blanckenberg, Mark Rogers and Bob Pedder the three managing partners of online media, branding, advertising and PR company Mojo Communications Group.
Situated in a converted warehouse, Mojo Gallery has 280m sq of exhibition space and a 140 m sq mezzanine that is simultaneously used as a workspace.
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BMW – Paris Photo Prize winner Karijn Kakabeeke talks to brownbook

When she set out to take photographs of the political changes in Afghanistan Karijn Kakabeeke never thought three years later she would be the winner of an international competition.

Now her photographs of women footballers in the war-ravaged country have won this year’s BMW-Paris Photo Prize with judges saying the images offer a glimmer of hope for the future.

Dutch photographer Kakabeeke took her series of photographs of the Afghan women titled Bend it Like Beckham in the spring of 2006 and was represented at Paris Photo by Dubai’s The Empty Quarter photography gallery, one of 83 galleries at the annual show...  Read More
 
George azmy - illustrator

It is significantly more difficult to point out the obvious than one might think. Everyday, people take items, events, their surroundings and even each other for granted, unable to put into words the basics without which their lives would be less interesting. It takes a special talent to draw on -and literally draw- these various elements of our lives and bring them to the forefront of our consciousness...  Read More
 
Jean Nouvel

During a visit to Abu Dhabi Art, French architect Jean Nouvel shared his vision of the Louvre Abu Dhabi and explained why urban art is so important.
Designed by Nouvel, the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, is currently under construction and expected to open in 2012 on Saadiyat Island. Nouvel, last year's Pritzker Prize (architecture's highest honour) winner, also designed the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris in the mid-eighties, for which he obtained the Aga Khan Award for Architecture...  Read More
 
Abu Dhabi Art

Abu Dhabi Art officially opened today at Emirates Palace hotel. Galleries such as Guggenheim and Louvre will be holding exhibitions and there is a design studio (pictured) by Traffic and a Bidoun Library...  Read More
 
Mezaina – Rooney

Mezaina – Rooney
Emirati and Irish artists Khalid Mezaina and Declan Rooney are currently working on a collaborative project in Dubai following a year long correspondence.
In the Gallery of Light at Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre (Ductac) the two can be seen working together on a cross-cultural relations exhibition, which combines Mezaina’s artwork of visually illustrative pieces and Rooney’s performance art...  Read More
 
Gold Ring

It sounds perhaps unusual to bring a storyline set in the UAE to life as Japanese manga, but Qais Sedki, author of Gold Ring and founder of Pageflip Publishing has done just that.

Winner of a brownbook Urban Award for best book Gold Ring was a collaboration between Sedki and two Japanese artists who go by the pen name Akira Himekawa.

They pair are internationally recognized for works such as the revamped Astro Boy and the mangas based on Nintendo's Legend of Zelda franchise. ..  Read More
 
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