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Featuring live talks guided by a curated<br />

theme, the Global Art Forum brings together<br />

a diverse line-up of participants, including<br />

artists, curators, musicians, strategists,<br />

thinkers and writers.<br />

The Global Art Forum was launched by Art<br />

Dubai at its inaugural fair in 2007. In 2015, it<br />

is presented by the Dubai Culture and Arts<br />

Authority and supported by Dubai Design<br />

District (d3).<br />

GLOBAL ART FORUM<br />

The Global Art Forum Kuwait is supported by<br />

The Tamdeen Group and takes place at Dar<br />

al-Athar al-Islamiyyah, in association with<br />

Sultan Gallery and Nuqat.<br />

The International New York Times is the<br />

international media partner of the Global Art<br />

Forum.<br />

89PLUS<br />

The Global Art Forum also features the<br />

launch of a two-year partnership with 89plus,<br />

the long-term, international, multi-platform<br />

research project co-founded by Simon Castets<br />

and Hans Ulrich Obrist, investigating the<br />

generation of innovators born in or after 1989.<br />

Workshops and a presentation at Art Dubai<br />

2015, where Obrist and Castets are joined<br />

by artist and 89plus collaborator Abdullah<br />

Al-Mutairi, are geared towards developing a<br />

collaborative project – the first in the region –<br />

to be presented at Art Dubai 2016.

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