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What's On
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- What's On
Short+Sweet: A theatre festival is taking place at Alserkal Avenue
Short+Sweet is for all the theatre fiends… They call it the biggest little play festival in Dubai – Short+Sweet Dubai is back this year for another season, after several successful runs over 13 years, bringing you one of the world's largest 10-minute play festivals. The festival features over 300 actors, writers, and directors, this festival is a celebration of creativity, diversity, and powerful storytelling, done in bite-size. Experience big stories in small packages, performed in 8 different languages, representing a mix of cultures and perspectives. From monologues to musicals, comedies to dramas, there's something for all. Taking place at The Junction at Alserkal Avenue, a hub for live theatre and performing arts, the festival features 70+ original plays, each 10 minutes long. It will run till June 1, and tickets are available to purchase on Platinumlist. We're about halfway through the run, but there's loads more plays left to discover. In a format like this, every second on the stage counts, and the message is swiftly delivered, but with a big impact. If you're a live theatre enthusiast, this is exactly what you need to keep yourself busy this summer. More like this… The month of May is rife with the energy of arts and culture. Immersive digital art space Art e Museum Dubai is collaborating with the famed Musée d'Orsay in Paris, to bring classic masterpieces in a new light. Expect to see ver 100 artworks from Monet's Water Lilies to Van Gogh's Starry Night. Comedy in the Sky is back at Aura Skypool for a second round. In partnership with The Laughter Factory, catch comedians like Justin Panks, Aaron Butler, Roxy Yekta, Viswajit Dilip and Valentina Danubio on Wednesday, May 21, starting 8pm. Carmina Burana: The Ballet makes its Dubai debut at Dubai Opera on May 23 and 24, 2025, in a thrilling reimagining of Carl Orff's iconic cantata. Directed by acclaimed choreographer Edward Clug, the production fuses classical and contemporary ballet to capture the raw energy of fate, desire, and destiny. Discover more in our guide here… Short+Sweet, The Junction, Alserkal Avenue, until June 1, tickets at Dhs120, @shortnsweetdxb Images: Socials > Sign up for FREE to get exclusive updates that you are interested in
Buzz Feed
09-05-2025
- Buzz Feed
Art Heist Simulation Quiz
"Bal du moulin de la Galette" by Renoir has been STOLEN from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, France. It is up to you, detective, to interrogate the witnesses, investigate their alibis, and find the missing piece of art.
What's On
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- What's On
The Dubai art and culture digest: 12 happenings this May
Dubai welcomes another month of art-culture cool this May… May is here (we know, freaky) and if you're an arts-and-culture-crawler, this list is for you. Find here, all of the coolest alternative art happenings throughout the month to keep you busy and your soul fed. Arte Museum x Musée d'Orsay Immersive digital art space Art e Museum Dubai is collaborating with the famed Musée d'Orsay in Paris, to bring classic masterpieces in a new light. The exhibit invites visitors to experience the emotional and cultural depth of 19th-century French art with all the five senses engaged, as these pieces come to life. Expect to see ver 100 artworks from Monet's Water Lilies to Van Gogh's Starry Night. ARTE MUSEUM DUBAI, opposite Galeries Lafayette, Dubai Mall, from Feb 19, Mon to Thurs, 10am to 11pm, Fri to Sun, 10am to 12am, Arab Cinema Week This iconic celebration of the very best of regional cinema started off as a small spark and has now become an annual staple on the city's cultural calendar. The festival kicked off on May 2 and will run till May 11, taking you through an incredible journey through the cinematic landscape of the Arab world. 10 days of the event will feature 10 feature films, 6 Gulf Premieres, 3 UAE Premieres, and stories from 10 Arab countries including Lebanon, Sudan, UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan and Syria. Read more here. Find the full schedule here, tickets priced at Dhs56.70 Dreams of Spring at Al Habtoor Palace The Dreams of Spring exhibition at Al Habtoor Palace was unveiled recently, and features a specially curated collection of pieces by internationally-acclaimed artists like Timur D'Vatz, Timur Akhmedov, and Alfiz Sabirov. The exhibition has been curated by Andakulova Gallery, renowned for championing the vibrant art scene of Central Asia, and Legends Art Club. The exhibit is open for public viewing from until May 31, 2025. Dreams of Spring, Al Habtoor Palace, till May 31, @alhabtoorpalace Terra Dubai x Pinkum Collection Terra Dubai has a new exhibition by celebrated Dubai based, Canadian-Lebanese multidisciplinary designer and digital artist, Chafic Mekawi, curated by renowned Dubai based collector Margo Castro, founder of Pinkum Collection. The exhibition features five thought-provoking works that blend traditional Gulf elements with a forward-looking perspective, shaped by his upbringing between Beirut and the UAE. Visitors are invited to explore themes of Arab identity, heritage, cultural symbolism and futurism expressed through striking compositions. Terra Dubai, Sun to Thurs, all summer, 8am to 11pm, Fri to Sat, 8am to 12pm, Tel: (0) 4 388 8582, @ Women in Contemporary Arab Art at Kutubna Cultural Centre Kutubna Cultural Centre is hosting Women in Contemporary Arab Art , an exhibition of 35 works that offers a rare and powerful perspective on how Arab women have been depicted through decades of modern and contemporary art. The display features revealing stories of strength, beauty, resilience, and cultural transformation outlined by renowned regional including paintings on canvas and paper, highlighting both classic and experimental styles from the 20th and early 21st centuries. Kutubna Cultural Centre, until May 18, daily, 10am to 10pm, Tel: (0) 4 447 4050, @kutubnadubai Comedy in the Sky at Aura Skypool Comedy in the Sky is back at Aura Skypool for a second round. In partnership with The Laughter Factory, catch comedians like Justin Panks, Aaron Butler, Roxy Yekta, Viswajit Dilip and Valentina Danubio on Wednesday, May 21, starting 8pm. Stellar comedy paired with incredible panoramic views of the city -doesn't get better than that. Guests also receive a complimentary drink. Aura Skypool, The Palm Tower, Wed, May 21, 8pm , Dhs250, Tel: (0) 4 566 2121, @ The ME by Meliá ME by Meliá Dubai invites guests to immerse themselves in Harmony in Diversity, a captivating exhibit ion by Dubai-based artist Rada K., as part of the hotel's Cultural Connection series. Known for her bold exploration of styles and materials, Rada K. brings a dynamic and thought-provoking collection that celebrates contrast, connection, and creative freedom, transforming the entire hotel into a gallery. The ME by Meliá, Business Bay, launching May 9, Tel: (0) 525 2500, @medubaihotel Expo City In celebration of International Museum Day, Expo City Dubai invites visitors to relive the glory days of the Expo with free entry to the Expo 2020 Museum and Garden in the Sky from May 17 to 18. Expo 2020 Museum offers a unique experience on an inspiring journey through Dubai's triumphant bid to host the first World Expo in the Middle East, the challenges of delivering a global mega-event during a pandemic, and the unforgettable moments that made the Expo 2020. Expo City, May 17 and 18, @expocitydubai Carmina Burana – The Ballet Carmina Burana: The Ballet makes its Dubai debut at Dubai Opera on May 23 and 24, 2025, in a thrilling reimagining of Carl Orff's iconic cantata. Directed by acclaimed choreographer Edward Clug, the production fuses classical and contemporary ballet to capture the raw energy of fate, desire, and destiny. With dramatic choreography set to the thunderous O Fortuna and Orff's emotional score, this bold performance promises a visceral, unforgettable night of music and movement. Dubai Opera, Downtown Dubai, May 23 and 24, @dubaiopera Tashkeel x Van Cleef & Arpels Van Cleef & Arpels and Tashkeel celebrate a decade of the Emergent Designer Prize with a striking exhibition at Tashkeel Nad Al Sheba, running until June 3. Centered on the theme 'Inspiring Winds,' the show features innovative works by Gulf-based designers. Highlights include Dhow Kite by Hajar Al Tenaiji, blending Emirati maritime heritage with sustainable design, and poetic pieces like No Beginning and Breezeborn . Expect sculpted wood, wind-shaped cork, and plenty of imagination. Tashkeel, Nad Al Sheba, until Jun 3, daily, 8am to 10pm, Tel: (0) 4 336 3313, @tashkeelstudio Fragments of Persian Modernity This exhibit at Foundry, presented by Bavan Gallery, Hoor Gallery, Zafi Gallery, offers a powerful snapshot of Iran's artistic evolution through modern and contemporary works. Running across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the exhibition highlights visionaries like Aydin Aghdashloo, Monir Farmanfarmaian, and Sirak Melkonian, exploring themes of identity, tradition, and transformation. Juxtaposing generations and genres, it reveals a vibrant artistic dialogue shaped by heritage and global influence — poetic, political, and deeply personal. Foundry, Downtown Dubai, until May 13, daily, 10am to 10pm, Tel: (0) 4 367 3696, @foundrydowntown HOME: Heart Of My Existence at JD Malat Gallery Afro-Surrealist artist Kojo Marfo makes his Dubai debut with HOME: Heart Of My Existence at JD Malat Gallery, running until May 31. Through 13 bold, large-scale works, Marfo explores home as a feeling rather than a location — shaped by memory, identity, and cultural drift. Blending Cubist flair, Ghanaian iconography, and classical technique, his vibrant compositions pulse with emotion and existential inquiry. It's a show that speaks directly to a rootless, global generation. JD Malat Gallery, Downtown Dubai, May 31, daily, 10am to 10pm, Tel: (0) 4 257 0076, @jdmalatgallery Images: Socials
New York Times
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Sargent and ‘Madame X' Return, Notorious as Ever
The preternaturally astute portrait painter John Singer Sargent is often identified as an American, but he belonged to no one country. Born in Florence, Italy, to expat parents who moved the family around Europe with the seasons, Sargent (1856-1925) spent a formative decade in Paris before making London his base for a nomadic life (including long stints in Boston and New York). He went to Spain and Italy often enough to have inspired museum exhibitions on his time there. He was cosmopolitan until the end; when he died, in his sleep in London at age 69, obituaries noted that he had been reading Voltaire. France was where Sargent chose to start his career, however, and in the Metropolitan Museum's transporting spring exhibition 'Sargent and Paris' we see just how he did it: with a lot of savoir-faire and a touch of the enfant terrible. A collaboration between the Met and the Musée d'Orsay, where the exhibition will appear in the fall, the show follows Sargent from his arrival in the French capital as an 18-year-old in 1874 through his Salon triumphs of the early 1880s to the controversy around his arresting portrait 'Madame X' of 1883-4. Organized by the Met curator Stephanie L. Herdrich (with help from the museum's research assistant Caroline Elenowitz-Hess and the Musée D'Orsay curators Caroline Corbeau-Parsons and Paul Perrin), the show builds to a climax around 'Madame X,' with long sight lines that tunnel through galleries to stoke anticipation for this famous painting of the precariously dressed Parisian socialite and American expatriate Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau. The work has been a highlight of the Met's collection since Sargent sold it to the museum in 1916, telling the director 'I suppose it's the best thing I've done.' Perhaps because it leans so heavily on a well-known painting and milieu, 'Sargent and Paris' does not break a lot of new ground (unlike, say, the recent 'Fashioned by Sargent' exhibition at MFA Boston and Tate Britain, which shed light on the artist's performative, collaborative process). 'Madame X' and her circle have been covered extensively, including in Deborah Davis's book 'Strapless' and Gioia Diliberto's work of historical fiction 'I Am Madame X.' It's nonetheless an evocative look at the Belle Époque city where a young Sargent hit his stride. And the way he did it — assiduous networking, close study of the greats, an instinctive sense of what was contemporary, and a carefully dispensed soupçon of notoriety — feels instructive for artists today. Emerging artists might also admire the fluidity with which the polyglot Sargent moved between countries (which, at this moment, seems more difficult to emulate). Not that it was so easy then. American-European relations were strained, as today, by trade wars and tariffs and assertions of nationalism. Protectionist impulses extended to art. (One French gossip columnist wrote that Americans 'have painters, like Mr. Sargent, who take away our medals, and pretty women, like Madame Gauthereau [sic], who eclipse ours…') But in a Third Republic Paris in which the newly wealthy mingled with aristocrats and wanted their own status-affirming portraits, Sargent found material and intellectual support. Travel facilitated Sargent's quick rise. Training under the commercially successful portraitist Carolus-Duran, he was sent to Spain and the Netherlands to study works by his idols Velazquez and Frans Hals. His copy of a figure from Hals's 'The Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Civic Guard,' made on an 1880 trip to Haarlem, shows off the vigorous white-on-white brushwork that would become his signature. He also visited Morocco and Italy, in part to satisfy the Parisian Salons' appetite for exotic scenes. Although he dutifully supplied a few of these, as in the overtly sensuous painting of a Tangier woman perfuming herself in 'Fumée d'Ambre Gris,' he thwarted expectations elsewhere with shadowy Venetian palazzo interiors that eschew the city's light-dappled canals. A family friend described Sargent as seeking 'what no one else has sought here — unpicturesque subjects, absence of color, absence of sunlight.' It was a portrait, however, that solidified his reputation in Paris. Appropriately enough, the subject was Amalia Subercaseaux, the wife of a Chilean diplomat. When the painting of Madame Subercaseaux seated at the piano in a bold dress with cascading black-and-white ruffles was shown at the Paris Salon of 1880, it earned Sargent an award that allowed him to bypass the jury for future Salons. At the Met, the picture introduces a gallery of daring portraits that centers on 'Dr. Pozzi at Home' — Sargent's roguish yet regal image of the gynecologist and man-about-town Samuel Jean Pozzi, the reputed lover of Gautreau among others, in a searing scarlet dressing gown. Sargent's travels to Spain influenced the work he made in Paris. His next big Salon moment came in 1882, with 'El Jaleo' — a monumental, intensely atmospheric scene of an Andalusian dancer in mid-gyration. A group portrait of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit is opposite a copy of Velázquez's 'Las Meninas' from his student pilgrimage to the Prado. Outside the Salons, Sargent cultivated a strong network of supporters — many of them formidable, creative women, like the writers Vernon Lee and Judith Gautier, represented at the Met in a palate-cleansing display of informal, sketchlike portraits. (Lee described Sargent's image of her, approvingly, as 'rather fierce and cantankerous.') Sargent was also surrounded in Paris by the feminine archetype of the 'Parisienne' in her modish black dress. Examples in the show by Whistler, Renoir and Manet (who died in 1883 and would have been on Sargent's mind around the time he painted Gautreau) attest to the hold of this image of female beauty and modernity on the imaginations of very different artists. By the time 'Madame X' makes her entrance, we are primed to see its subject as both an individual and a type — and to recognize her and Sargent as creators of this enduringly audacious work. As we know from the abundant literature on the painting, both Sargent and Gautreau were looking for a sensational moment and they got it at the Salon of 1884 (though not in the way either one had expected). Critics objected to the fallen shoulder strap of Gautreau's dress (which Sargent later adjusted to an upright position, as it appears today), as well as her heavy makeup and her avoidance of eye contact with the viewer. They ignored the work's Classical lines and symbols, such as the crescent hair ornament associated with the virgin huntress Diana. And they castigated both artist and subject as American interlopers. (Some of the commentary centered on Gautreau's Creole roots.) The naysayers were right about one thing, which is that the work was very much a joint effort. At the Met, 'Madame X' is surrounded by preparatory sketches of Gautreau that celebrate her as an artwork in her own right. Most show her in profile, nodding to the tradition of the cameo or of Quattrocento portraits of women. And the heavy makeup that so offended salongoers can be seen as a painting of a painting — something Sargent's fellow Salon artist Marie Bashkirtseff seemed to grasp when she wrote, 'The beautiful lady is horrible in daylight because she uses too much makeup … This chalky paint looks like plaster and gives her shoulders the hue of a corpse. Further, she paints her ears pink and her hair the color of mahogany …. But at night she is truly beautiful.' Sargent's reputation in Paris largely recovered from the disastrous reception of 'Madame X.' (Gautreau's didn't.) But by this time he had his eye on London, where he took up residence in 1886. He continued to see his own artistic identity through a French filter — 'American by birth, French by the brush,' as an 1884 article from a Belgian newspaper had it. In small portraits he paid tribute to his artist friends Rodin and Monet, even adopting the Impressionist's own style for a lovely little plein-air scene of him at work in the woods at Giverny. Also here is a more formal treatment of the sewing machine heiress Winnaretta Singer; as the label tells us, both Sargent and Singer made large contributions to the fund to acquire Manet's 'Olympia' for the French state. The French state returned the favor when, in 1892, it purchased Sargent's 1890 painting of the Spanish flamenco star known as 'La Carmencita.' This daring work, which shows the dancer assuming a confident hand-on-hip stance in a voluminous yellow costume, makes for a fitting conclusion to 'Sargent and Paris' — a vision of Spain in France, seen by an artist who held an American passport but knew no borders. Sargent and Paris Through Aug. 3, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan,
Time Out
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
The best Hong Kong events in May 2025
The famous Musée d'Orsay and Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris have collaborated with the Hong Kong Museum of Art to present this special exhibition on two of the greatest masters of the Impressionist art movement: Paul Cézanne and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. This is the first large-scale exhibition of the two Impressionists in Hong Kong, showcasing 52 masterpieces on loan from France. See how the pair found innovative ways to reinvent the art of their time, how they viewed the world, and how they captured the rapidly changing times around them. Cézanne and Renoir were also longtime friends and likely influenced each other's works, as well as later becoming beacons of inspiration for later painters such as Spanish surrealist master Pablo Picasso. The Cézanne and Renoir exhibition will run from January 17 to May 7. Tickets are priced at $50, with concessions available. Note that the Hong Kong Museum of Art is closed on Thursdays as well as the first two days of Chinese New Year (January 29-30). View this post on Instagram A post shared by Time Out Hong Kong (@timeouthk)
