Art and Art History
Documenting Visual Design at NYUAD
Goffredo Puccetti introduces a documentary about NYUAD design by Harshini Karunaratne.
Favorite Theorists: Pia Arke
What’s important about mixed-race Danish-Greenlandic artist and cultural theorist Pia Arke (1958–2007).
Rethinking Universality
A Louvre Abu Dhabi student ambassador reflects on the meaning of the new museum.
January Term Sketches from New York
Anastasiia Zubareva presents a series of sketches that seek to capture what she calls the “strange, neo-romantic spirit of a post-modern megalopolis.”
Art and Home
Nikolaj Nielsen explores an oasis of contemporary art and design at the Trapholt museum in Kolding, Denmark.
Looking Toward NYUAD: Mirrors for Princes
Part II of Diana Gluck’s interview with the Slavs and Tatars collective focuses on its current work and the plans for its residency at the NYUAD Art Gallery.
Beginnings, Books, and Bazaars
In the first part of her interview with the Slavs and Tatars art collective, Diana Gluck explores the group’s origins and the conversations sparked by its installations.
Night Light
All photography by Jack Dickson. When I walked into the NYUAD Project Space to meet Julie Stopper for a tour of her exhibition Night Light, I saw a group of students sprawled on the floor, huddled around a computer, giggling at the screen. Stopper was sitting...
Eid Postcard Contest Winners
We asked community members who had traveled during the 2014 Eid al-Adha holiday to submit photos from their trips that would make good postcards. Here are our top submissions. Scroll down to find our winning three postcards: Aiman Khurram, Those Who Don't Jump....
Da Vinci Comes to Abu Dhabi
I should warn you, art has never really been my thing. I have never felt comfortable contemplating art pieces, analyzing them or describing what I feel when I look at them -- partly because I feel nothing. As you might imagine, then, attending the Abu Dhabi Talking...
Crocheting Community
Approximately one year ago, at the beginning of my freshman year at college, I was required to attend an NYUAD Institute talk about coral reefs made out of crochet. In all honesty, I wasn’t entirely keen – I felt typical teenage angst at “being forced to attend an...
What Do Our Artists Say About Us?
Last summer, while interning at a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan, my boss assigned me the prestigious task of purchasing a jeroboam (a three liter bottle) of champagne for her friend’s birthday. When I called a local liquor store, they offered me not only a...