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Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Fields of Memory by Shalabia Ibrahim
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Fields of Memory by Shalabia Ibrahim

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Beauty & Ruin by David Najib Kasir
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Beauty & Ruin by David Najib Kasir

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Memoryscape - Group exhibition
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Memoryscape - Group exhibition

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Encoded in Petals by Soraya Abu Naba'a
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Encoded in Petals by Soraya Abu Naba'a

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

I Am The Letter, I Am The Meaning by Akil Ahmad
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I Am The Letter, I Am The Meaning by Akil Ahmad

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Threshold by Richard Hearns
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Threshold by Richard Hearns

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

The Red Between Us
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The Red Between Us

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Heritage, Memory, & The Body
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Heritage, Memory, & The Body

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Nomads In Time by Balnur Assanova
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Nomads In Time by Balnur Assanova

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Third Eye by Amjad Gharezeddin
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Third Eye by Amjad Gharezeddin

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Between Lines & Colors Group Exhibition
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Between Lines & Colors Group Exhibition

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Currents: Journeys in Motion by Vandana Sudhir
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Currents: Journeys in Motion by Vandana Sudhir

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Summered A Group Show
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Summered A Group Show

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Chroma
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Chroma

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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The Other Side of the Moon
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The Other Side of the Moon

O Contemporary · Abu Dhabi

Facets of a Father
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Facets of a Father

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Gilbert Halaby SONNET V
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Gilbert Halaby SONNET V

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Majlis of Memory
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Majlis of Memory

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Intersections
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Intersections

O Contemporary · Abu Dhabi

Will You Wait For Me Under That Pine Tree?
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Will You Wait For Me Under That Pine Tree?

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Generational Gifts
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Generational Gifts

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

November Gardens
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November Gardens

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Sustainable Art Awareness Project
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Sustainable Art Awareness Project

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Still Life to Abstraction
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Still Life to Abstraction

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Abu Dhabi Art Fair
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Abu Dhabi Art Fair

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi Art
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Abu Dhabi Art

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Women and Fruits
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Women and Fruits

Etihad Modern Art Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Uncertainty
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Uncertainty

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Empty Spaces
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Empty Spaces

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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The World of Banksy
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The World of Banksy

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Salam
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Salam

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Art Collective
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Art Collective

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Memories
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Memories

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Flashback
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Flashback

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Distancing
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Distancing

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

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Break
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Break

Artbooth Gallery · Abu Dhabi

Stories from Abu Dhabi

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A full moon rising over dark water on the Abu Dhabi coast, a single bright disc against a black sky.
Editorial

The Word for Beautiful Was the Word for Moon

The moon has been the measure of a beautiful face in Arabic verse for fifteen centuries — but beauty was only one of the things that light was ever asked to carry. A history of one disc, from a pre-Islamic ode to a glowing sphere over an Abu Dhabi harbour.

Ya qamar — you moon — is the oldest compliment in Arabic, and almost nothing about it means what we assume. The moon it praised was not always a woman, not always even a kindness, and in the end not only about beauty at all.

A large landscaped roundabout in Doha, Qatar, with a monumental sculpture on its central island and multi-lane traffic circling it against a backdrop of West Bay towers.
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Why Doha Is Full of Roundabouts

An old circle at a crossroads, sharpened by British road engineering, became the way an Arabian city found its way and remembered itself — and it took the bulldozers to reveal it.

In a city where a landmark was more useful than an address, Doha's roundabouts became its navigation, its landscaping and its national image all at once. Now they're being torn out for signalled junctions — and the affection for them arrived, as one scholar put it, only posthumously.

Sunlight falls in scattered points through the perforated dome of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Jean Nouvel's "rain of light," onto the pale stone of the museum's interior.
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The Universal Museum, Rebuilt on Arab Soil

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.

An Arabian oryx, white with long nearly straight ringed horns and dark facial markings, standing in pale desert sand.
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The Animal We Drew Everywhere Once It Was Gone

From Neolithic rock to airline tailfin — how the Arabian oryx vanished from the desert, came back from nine animals, and multiplied everywhere as a symbol in the very decades it was gone.

The last wild Arabian oryx was shot in 1972. By then it was already a picture — carved on Bronze Age tombs, mistaken by the ancients for a unicorn, praised by poets as the eyes of the beloved. This is the story of an animal that went extinct in the wild and was brought back from nine survivors, and of the strange gap between the creature and the emblem it became: fast, sharp and ascendant on a nation's tailfin, while the animal itself survives by standing still in the shade.