Art Dubai today revealed details of its March return to a physical event. For the first time, the fair will be spread out at major art spaces across the UAE.
In addition to its home at Madinat Jumeirah, programmes and events will take place at the Sharjah Art Foundation, the Jameel Arts Centre in Dubai and Warehouse421 in Abu Dhabi, which is supported by the Salama bint Hamdan Al Nahyan Foundation.
According to fair organisers, the new plans will celebrate the artistic "synergies" across the UAE as the country enters its 50th anniversary year.
The fair also announced the appointment of Hala Khayat as regional director.
Khayat is a well-known figure in the Middle East art world. The Damascus-born specialist was head of sales at Christie's Middle East, which she joined in 2007.
There she facilitated significant sales of Arab, Iranian and Turkish artworks, and helped build key regional collections.
In a video statement for Art Dubai she said that she has been to every Art Dubai since it began in 2007.
“I have seen first-hand its role as a catalyst for the regional art scene,” Khayat said. “In my role as regional director I’ll be engaging with the audience and bringing them to discover the wealth of content the fair is offering every year and throughout the year.”
Art Dubai, which takes place in March at Madinat Jumeirah, was one of the first international art fairs and exhibitions to be cancelled amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Although a shock to many at the time, Art Dubai's closure presaged the variety of responses to the pandemic, from online-only to a hybrid live/online session to outright cancellation, by major art fairs since.
Its plans to spread events and exhibitions across a variety of significant sites also shows how fairs worldwide are adapting their programming to the Covid era, where collectors are less willing to travel and the international art market has been down.
While fairs such as those of Frieze and Art Basel are investing in Online Viewing Rooms, Art Dubai is taking advantage of the fact that Covid cases have been kept relatively low in the UAE.
The country is now loosening restrictions as other areas head into second waves. While Frieze London goes majority-online in October and Art Basel Miami Beach is being cancelled for December, Dubai Design Week – which is part of the Art Dubai Group – is readying itself for in-person events in November.
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Date of start: 2013
Founders: Rashi Chowdhary and Saad Umerani
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Size, number of employees: 12
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The two riders are among several riders in the UAE to receive the top payment of £10,000 under the Thank You Fund of £16 million (Dh80m), which was announced in conjunction with Deliveroo's £8 billion (Dh40bn) stock market listing earlier this year.
The £10,000 (Dh50,000) payment is made to those riders who have completed the highest number of orders in each market.
There are also riders who will receive payments of £1,000 (Dh5,000) and £500 (Dh2,500).
All riders who have worked with Deliveroo for at least one year and completed 2,000 orders will receive £200 (Dh1,000), the company said when it announced the scheme.
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Conflict, drought, famine
Estimates of the number of deaths caused by the famine range from 400,000 to 1 million, according to a document prepared for the UK House of Lords in 2024.
It has been claimed that the policies of the Ethiopian government, which took control after deposing Emperor Haile Selassie in a military-led revolution in 1974, contributed to the scale of the famine.
Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
The West became aware of the catastrophe through a series of BBC News reports by journalist Michael Buerk in October 1984 describing a “biblical famine” and containing graphic images of thousands of people, including children, facing starvation.
Band Aid
Bob Geldof, singer with the Irish rock group The Boomtown Rats, formed Band Aid in response to the horrific images shown in the news broadcasts.
With Midge Ure of the band Ultravox, he wrote the hit charity single Do They Know it’s Christmas in December 1984, featuring a string of high-profile musicians.
Following the single’s success, the idea to stage a rock concert evolved.
Live Aid was a series of simultaneous concerts that took place at Wembley Stadium in London, John F Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, the US, and at various other venues across the world.
The combined event was broadcast to an estimated worldwide audience of 1.5 billion.
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Real estate tokenisation project
Dubai launched the pilot phase of its real estate tokenisation project last month.
The initiative focuses on converting real estate assets into digital tokens recorded on blockchain technology and helps in streamlining the process of buying, selling and investing, the Dubai Land Department said.
Dubai’s real estate tokenisation market is projected to reach Dh60 billion ($16.33 billion) by 2033, representing 7 per cent of the emirate’s total property transactions, according to the DLD.
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- Priority access to new homes from participating developers
- Discounts on sales price of off-plan units
- Flexible payment plans from developers
- Mortgages with better interest rates, faster approval times and reduced fees
- DLD registration fee can be paid through banks or credit cards at zero interest rates
