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WORLD TRAVELLER X DCT ABU DHABI<br />
THREE WAYS TO EXPERIENCE ABU DHABI...<br />
Artistic inspiration<br />
Explore the UAE capital's eclectic arts scene, from contemporary gallery<br />
showcases to cultural pop-ups, and snapshots of history with a global perspective<br />
Photo: Project Warehouse by Festember<br />
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Project Warehouse. Yas<br />
Island welcomes back<br />
the popular Festember<br />
pop-up event with a vibrant<br />
celebration of contemporary<br />
culture covering art, cuisine,<br />
fashion and design, from<br />
15-18 <strong>May</strong>. Art themes for<br />
<strong>2019</strong> range from female<br />
empowerment to rural<br />
Emirati populations with<br />
local and international artists<br />
taking part in the four-day<br />
event. Los Angeles-based<br />
artist Oliver Coreaux is flying<br />
in to handpaint a collection<br />
of luxury handbags and<br />
accessories with a visual<br />
collage comprised of text<br />
and symbols.<br />
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Louvre Abu Dhabi.<br />
The museum's first<br />
photography exhibition<br />
explores the development<br />
of this fascinating art form<br />
from its earliest beginnings.<br />
Entitled 'Photographs 1842 –<br />
1896: An Early Album of the<br />
<strong>World</strong>', the exhibition features<br />
250 images from across<br />
the globe including Saudi<br />
Arabia, Egypt, India and the<br />
Philippines. The works on<br />
show mainly originate from<br />
Musée du Quai Branly –<br />
Jacques Chirac’s collection,<br />
which includes some of<br />
the earliest photographs<br />
produced outside of Europe.<br />
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Warehouse421. A hub<br />
for regional talent, this<br />
Mina Zayed located<br />
gallery is showcasing six<br />
forms of writing as part<br />
of its Nomadic Traces:<br />
Journeys of Arabian Scripts<br />
exhibition. Works by nine<br />
GCC and Levantine artists<br />
are on show, including 'Yad'<br />
by Margherita Abi Hanna,<br />
which draws on the abstract,<br />
simple geometry of ancient<br />
Phoenician text to Khalid<br />
Mezaina's 'If Speech Is Silver'<br />
piece, featuring a trio of<br />
Musnad and Aramaic printed<br />
textiles with silver as the<br />
starting inspiration.<br />
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