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Melissa Gronlund

Melissa Gronlund

Art Correspondent
London
Melissa is an art correspondent for The National. Originally from New York City, she studied comparative literature at Princeton University and film aesthetics at Oxford. She is the author of Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. From 2007–2014 she lectured on contemporary art at Oxford University's Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art and co-edited the journal Afterall, based in London.
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Samia Halaby pictured in 2020 in front of her artwork. Photo: Lara Atalla
'We put up a good fight': Samia Halaby on US show cancellation

In an exclusive interview with The National, abstract painter says she detects 'sentiment shift' among younger Americans following occupied country's struggle

Arts & CultureJanuary 17, 2024
Artist Hera Buyuktasciyan was inspired by this image of Zaha Hadid as a child. Photo: Hera Buyuktasciyan
Controversy emerges over show about Zaha Hadid in the US

Contemporary Arts Centre declines to publish letter in solidarity with Palestinians

Arts & CultureJanuary 04, 2024
Shezad Dawood's installation at the Abu Dhabi Corniche. Photo: Lance Gerber
Abu Dhabi artwork is Shezad Dawood's response to climate crisis

Since 2017 the London creative has collaborated with scientists and environmental campaigners

Art & DesignDecember 07, 2023
The new East Bank cultural quarter aims to revitalise the formerly derelict area. Photo: East Bank
East Bank, a new cultural quarter emerges in London

Branches of major museums and universities are setting up shop in the former Olympics park

Arts & CultureNovember 30, 2023
The human-headed winged bull sculpture discovered with its entire wings intact at the archaeological site of Khorsabad. AFP
Lamassu discovery in Iraq hails new period of archaeology

The excavation of the beast reverses narratives of ISIS destruction

Arts & CultureNovember 05, 2023
Bakhter Art has been selling Central Asian textiles for decades. It is housed in the Al Fayez arcade, inside Alfies. Amy McConaghy / The National
Legendary London antiques market Alfies opens to Middle East trade

The new high-end galleries reflect the thriving community around the Edgware Road

WeekendNovember 03, 2023
Art X Lagos's founder Tokini Peterside-Schwebig. Photo: Art X Lagos
Art X Lagos changes format due to Nigeria's economic troubles

Fair to become an engine of dialogue says founder Tokini Peterside-Schwebig

Arts & CultureNovember 02, 2023
Shafic Abboud's incandescent Villa des Iris (1984) is leading Bonhams's November Middle East sale. Photo: Bonhams
How will Middle East art market be affected by political events?

Sotheby's weathered a tough sale but strength in the market remains

Art & DesignOctober 25, 2023
An installation by anonymous artist Spy dubbed Orb: Under the Same Sun sits on the Pyramids plateau in Giza in 2022. The installation was part of the second edition of Forever Is Now by Art d’Egypte. Photo: Art d'Egypte
Art d'Egypte is putting Egyptian art back on the map

Its free exhibition at the Pyramids of Giza, Forever Is Now, is returning for its third year

Arts & CultureOctober 23, 2023
Hallima Imane Zoubai performs Is Our Bread Ready Yet? at Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany. Photo: Nicolas Wefers
Moroccan artist finds her visual rhythm in Maghribi music

Hallima Imane Zoubai uses sound as a visual rhythm in both her art as well as her performative pieces

Arts & CultureOctober 02, 2023
Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah shot with a wide-angle lens to give the landscape a greater role. Photo: Lux
Film examines France's nuclear history in Algeria

Documentary gives voice to villagers who lived through explosions and still suffer from deadly effects

Arts & CultureSeptember 29, 2023
The archaeological site with Christian remains and discoveries located in the middle of a Muslim graveyard at Muharraq, Bahrain. Khushnum Bhandari / The National
Bahraini archaeology yields understanding of the movement of religion

Professor Timothy Insoll examines the past two decades of discoveries in the country

Arts & CultureSeptember 23, 2023
Sharjah Art Museum will host the region's first large-scale retrospective of Samia Halaby. Photo: Samia Halaby / Ayyam Gallery
Best global art exhibitions to look forward to this autumn

From Sharjah to New York, Dubai to Vienna, The National picks the highlights from the upcoming season

Arts & CultureSeptember 11, 2023
Wallace Chan's brooch Forever Dancing – Wind's Tale is made of diamonds, garnets, crystals, mother-of-pearl, sapphires, porcelain and a real butterfly specimen. Photo: Wallace Chan / Christie's
Wallace Chan's fine jewellery butterflies sparkle in London

The Wheel of Time, on display at Christie's, marks the artist's largest exhibition in Europe

LuxurySeptember 09, 2023
Charles Dickens imagined at his desk in the blacking factory by illustrator Frederick Barnard in 1904. Photo: Charles Dickens Museum
Charles Dickens's time as child labourer explored in new display

Beloved author's London museum brings to life dark and little known period of his life

Arts & CultureSeptember 04, 2023
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