Ali Kazim and Zarina Beckon Us Into Their Urdu Worlds

The UAE’s inaugural exhibition dedicated to the Urdu language, curated by Hammad Nasar

AAU Anastas Bring the Art and Politics of Building with Stone to ICD Brookfield Place Dubai

Aga Khan Award–winning architects Elias and Yousef Anastas make the case that what we build with and how we extract it, is never just a material question

My Favourite Neuroses: Mapping the Ecstasy and Comedown of Romance Across the Arab Love Song

Bad Boys and Big Feelings: Abdulaziz Al-Hosni Toys with the Anatomy of the Heart

From heart-embroidered kummahs to 50 dancers arranged in formation against a crimson background, Abdulaziz Al-Hosni’s work is a love letter to softness

Grey Area: Your Guide to New Balance’s Grey Days in Dubai

SLOP IS THAT DEEP

Do you sense that you live in a world that literally makes no fucking sense?

Salasil: Practitioners of Care and Experimentation

The UAE-based curatorial duo favours slowness, depth and imagination, resisting extractive cultural models and spectacle-driven sameness of today’s institutions. Studio salasil responds to the shifting contours of the world, forging encounters where care grounds the work and experimentation keeps it breathing

From the Ground Up: Jonathan Anderson’s Dior Archie Starts Where Most Shoes Stop