The selected artists are Saudi Arabian artist Ahaad Alamoudi, Emirati painter Almaha Jaralla, Malaysian artist and designer Muhammad Shamin Sahrum, based in Dubai, and Indian contemporary artists Ravikumar Kashi, Reena Kallat and Vivek Vilasini.

Reza Mafi lived for only 39 years, yet within that short life, his unique innovation and genius brought about one of the most significant and fundamental transformations in contemporary Iranian calligraphy and calligraphic painting. Mahboubeh Kazemi, founder and director of Taraneh Baran Gallery,…

Opera Gallery Dubai presents Al Nayed, an exhibition exploring the artistic journey of a painter who has spent more than five decades interpreting the UAE’s changing landscape, cultural memory and spiritual identity.

On the Threshold of Liberation: this compelling concept lies at the heart of Shadi Habib’s "Centaur", a wooden sculpture in which the artist eloquently conveys the idea through a dynamic, ascending, dance-like form.

Kamerani’s creative mind is imbued with a profound reverence for nature. Consequently, the earth and all that emerges from it take on an almost temple-like, sacred quality.

In support of the next generation of artists and galleries, Frieze Abu Dhabi provides participating Focus galleries with bursaries.

From an aesthetic perspective, this work occupies a space somewhere between epic art, Persian miniature painting, folklore, fantasy, and decorative art—and this is the pinnacle of Fatemeh Ahmadian’s artistry.

“Forever a Tree” is Mohamadali Vadood’s compelling project that gives a new life to dead or felled trees.

Influenced by 19th-century French painting and beyond, Sharif’s language is foreign to the region and to his local contemporaries, yet beneath its apparent estrangement, his practice illuminates a rather conservative society, unveiling the subtleties, rituals, and quiet rhythms that shape their…