The musical "Cats" reached Dubai
Fresh intelligence on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Cats”: in 2016, he triumphantly returned to New York on Broadway, licensed by the Really Useful Group (Nina Lannen was appointed executive producer), and from January 16 to 28 this famous musical will finally arrive on tour in Dubai, at the Dubai Opera, and viewers will hear unfading hits "Memory", "The Rum Tum Tugger" and "The Song of the Jellicles". The musical "Cats", based on the cycle of children's poems "The Popular Science of Cats, written by Old Opossum" by T. S. Eliot, is a purely export product that has gathered a record box office in New York, Budapest, Moscow and Tokyo. Some statistics: the most “long-playing” Broadway musical “Cats” (7485 performances were played from 1982) was watched in 30 countries by 73 million viewers, the musical was translated into 15 languages, received 7 Tony awards, the Lawrence Olivier Award for best musical and choreography. Hurry up to see! Tickets for the musical Cats can be bought online at www.dubaiopera.com
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You can enjoy it more than one day, you can return to it as a trusted friend, it pleases and amuses us, - All this is about street art, or street art, which promises to turn some of the streets of Dubai, for example, the Hatta district, into an open-air museum, into the cultural and tourist center of the city. The project was approved by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, and the city authorities: they developed a clear plan for the next 5 years - the best artists with the support of students from UAE universities will paint murals, will delight residents of the city with original 3D drawings and graffiti on the walls of houses . The most ambitious project starts on December 2 - 16 artists will paint on Satva Street, in the pedestrian part in the center of Dubai.
First exhibitors announced at the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi
In 2017, two large-scale exhibitions will start immediately in the museum complex on the island of Saadiyat, which will become the most important cultural center of the Emirates: American artist Jenny Holzer and Italian sculptor Giuseppe Penone. The general policy of the 69-year-old Turin Penone, a member of the Italian movement of arte povera, "poor art", is the desire to show the connection of man and nature, trees as living sculptures in his expositions "Repeating Forest" (1980), "Vowel Tree", "Gestures of Vegetation "(1986)," Cedar of Versailles "(2004). And 66-year-old Ohio-based artist Jenny Holzer invades the urban environment and public places with her installations, slogans and LED creeping lines: “Protect me from what I want”, “Your oldest fears are the worst” and “Life is not a rehearsal. " “The goal of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi is to reflect the universal nature of the creation of art, and for it we have chosen the work of world-famous artists,” says Mohammed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority (TCA Abu Dhabi). - Artworks by Jenny Holzer and Giuseppe Penone is inspired by the architecture and history of the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, which plays an important role in fusing cultures and civilizations of the past with ongoing discussions about art today and the methods of contemporary artists. "
Dyala Nasibeh appointed as new director of Abu Dhabi Art
The track record of Dyala Nasibibeh includes the international contemporary art fair Art International, which the girl opened in 2012 in Istanbul (Andy Warhol, Joan Miró and Banksy made a splash here), as well as cooperation with the infamous Saatchi Gallery in London. Finally, it recently became known that Dyala was appointed as the new director of the Abu Dhabi Art contemporary art exhibition. She absorbed a sense of beauty from early childhood: her father Zaki was an adviser and translator of Sheikh Zayed himself, as well as a translator of the UAE leaders since 1968, it was he who taught his children to appreciate art and literature. “We immediately noticed Dyala’s brilliant reputation, which went her own creative way. We hope she will breathe new life into the Abu Dhabi Art Fair,” says Rita Aun-Abdo, Executive Director of the Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority.
Warehouse421 hosts an exhibition of the winners of the "100 Best Arabic Posters" Contest
From November 15, 2016 to February 9, 2017 in the exhibition hall Warehouse421 you can not miss the exhibition of posters from the winners of the "100 Best Arab Posters" contest. The project came into being as a student competition, which was invented by Ahmad Sackfalheit, head of the graphic design department at the German University in Cairo. This season there was a real "poster" boom, more than 1200 applications from 17 countries were received for the competition, 100 winners were selected from all the works. "We did not want to limit our participation in the contest, making it only for illustrators who speak Arabic,” said Ahmad Sackfalheit, co-founder of the 100 Best Arabic Posters contest, “so we launched the contest’s advertisement in Instargam, because we dream of creating a visual language.” The posters, according to the organizers, are the most affordable means of visual communication, and this contest reminds us of how powerful, piercing and beautiful they can be.
