The Art of the Emirates II
Published by the Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF), this book tracks the development of the UAE art scene through firsthand interviews and roundtables with figures such as Chair of DCT HE Mohammed Khalifa Al Mubarak, HE Zaki Nusseibeh, Louvre Abu Dhabi director Manuel Rabaté, Art Jameel director Antonia Carver, theorist Shumon Basar, curator Munira Al Sayegh, and artists such as Vikram Divecha and Mohammed Kazem.
Available from Books Arabia
Editor
Melissa Gronlund
Year
2022
Designer
Wael Morcos
Published by ADMAF in collaboration with Roxane Zand, this is the catalogue to the exhibition “Portrait of a Nation II: Beyond Narratives,” curated by Maya El-Khalil. It looks at the work of key artists in the UAE including Hassan Sharif, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Abdullah Al Saadi, Moza Al Matrooshi, Ramin Haerizadeh, Rokni Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, and Nabla Yahya.
Available from Books Arabia
Editors
Roxane Zand
Melissa Gronlund
Designer
Wael Morcos
Year
2022
Portrait of a Nation II
Reference Point: A History of Tashkeel and UAE Art
Published by Tashkeel, the arts organisation founded by artist Lateefa bint Maktoum, this book looks back on the first ten years of Tashkeel and the emergence of Dubai’s art scene. With contributions from Beth Derderian, Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, and others.
Available from Tashkeel
Year
2019
Editor
Melissa Gronlund
Published by Routledge, this book analyses the impact of the internet and digital technologies upon art today. Art over the last fifteen years has been deeply inflected by the rise of the internet as a mass cultural and socio-political medium, while also responding to urgent economic and political events, from the financial crisis of 2008 to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
It looks at how contemporary art addresses digitality, circulation, privacy, and globalisation, and suggests how feminism and gender binaries have been shifted by new mediations of identity. It situates current artistic practice both in canonical art history and in technological predecessors such as cybernetics and net.art, and takes stock of how the art-world infrastructure has reacted to the internet’s promises of democratisation.
Available from Routledge
Year
2018
Author
Melissa Gronlund