1 gallery · 4 museums · 3 places
Saadiyat Cultural District is Abu Dhabi's purpose-built cultural island — Louvre Abu Dhabi, Manarat Al Saadiyat, and the forthcoming Guggenheim and Zayed National Museum form its spine.
The publisher's first West Asian venture brings global heavyweights and regional pioneers to Saadiyat Island
Frieze debuts in Abu Dhabi with an 84-gallery roster, shifting focus from local development to transnational exchange ahead of its November launch.
How Abu Dhabi took one of the West's most contested ideas — the museum that claims to hold all of humanity — and moved the question of who gets to frame the world
A portolan chart in the floor, three ewers without a hierarchy, and a $450-million Leonardo no one has seen since it was bought. The Louvre Abu Dhabi is a French–Emirati experiment in what the universal museum becomes when it is rebuilt from a different centre — and whether that moves the centre, or merely moves the Louvre, is the question the building leaves open.
The former NCMA chief returns to the capital to shape the Saadiyat Island venue's debut year and curatorial strategy
Valerie Hillings has been named the founding director of Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, marking a significant leadership shift ahead of the island campus's December inauguration.
Eight thousand years before the first barrel, the Gulf had already built a global economy — out of an oyster, a held breath, and a rope.
Before oil, the Arabian Gulf ran on the pearl: a global luxury trade that raised its cities from the sand, drew fortunes and real suffering in equal measure, and then vanished almost overnight. The story of the industry that made the modern Gulf — and the quiet way it is coming back.
Frank Gehry's Saadiyat Island museum to join global network amid regional shifts
The long-anticipated cultural institution on Saadiyat Island confirms its December debut, outlining curatorial ambitions and architectural scale.
The 1894 painting, the latest addition to the Abu Dhabi Masterpieces Collection, will be on view for a year alongside Monet, Japanese prints and photography that trace Impressionism's cross-cultural roots.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's 1894 double portrait of Berthe Morisot and her daughter, Julie Manet, is now on display in the permanent galleries of Louvre Abu Dhabi for one year — the latest addition to the Abu Dhabi Masterpieces Collection, placed in dialogue with Monet, Japanese prints and period photography.
