Stories

Tyra Banks and the ANTM Reckoning: Five Brutal Truths After Netflix’s Reality Check

You wanna be on top? No, we want accountability but the truth is Banks is part of a much more complicated problem

Feb 19 • Maan Jalal

The Rise and Fall of Gwyneth Paltrow and Winona Ryder’s Friendship, and Hollywood’s Obsession With Female Conflict

From 90s it-girls to pop culture myth, and why the system still profits from women falling out

Feb 3 • Maan Jalal

New Auction Record for Saudi Art: Safeya Binzagr’s $2.1 Million Sotheby’s Diriyah Sale

See the full list of Saudi and Arab artworks sold at Sotheby’s Origins II, including the record-setting sale

Feb 2 • Maan Jalal

Werner Bronkhort's First Exhibition in Dubai was Fun

The exhibition combines notions of pop art with abstraction and experimentation with material

Jan 21 • Maan Jalal

Art on a Monumental Scale: Desert X AlUla 2026

A visual journey through site-responsive works set within AlUla’s desert terrain

Jan 16 • Maan Jalal

Newly Discovered Michelangelo Drawing Is on View at Christie’s Dubai

How a forgotten Michelangelo study for the Sistine Chapel resurfaced centuries later

Jan 13 • Maan Jalal

“But She Was Beautiful” Is Not an Argument

Brigitte Bardot, Diana Mitford Mosley, Chappell Roan, and the moral laziness of aesthetic admiration

Jan 4 • Maan Jalal

Design Miami Is Coming to Dubai: Inside Alserkal’s New Regional Partnership

The multi-year collaboration positions the UAE as a rising hub for collectible design, joining a year of transformative cultural announcements

Dec 3, 2025 • Maan Jalal

Inside The Third Line’s 20-Year Story: How a Dubai Gallery Helped Shape the UAE’s Art Scene

The landmark exhibition The Only Way Out Is Through traces two decades of regional change through the artists who lived it

Dec 3, 2025 • Maan Jalal

BIENALSUR Comes to Riyadh: Inside Saudi Arabia’s Playful Turn Toward Contemporary Art

From sound installations to open-air concerts, Riyadh signals a confident, more experimental moment for Saudi contemporary art

Oct 16, 2025 • Maan Jalal

Abu Dhabi Art 2025 Puts Nigeria, Turkey, and the Gulf in the Spotlight

The fair returns this November with its biggest line-up yet, welcoming leading galleries, first-time participants, and a renewed regional spotlight

Sep 27, 2025 • Maan Jalal

Avedon in Egypt: The Fashion Editorial That Changed Everything

With Dovima, Diana Vreeland, and the pyramids, Richard Avedon transformed fashion into high art and an orientalist dream

Aug 17, 2025 • Maan Jalal

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