Culture + Lifestyle
Rare and the Return of Atmosphere in Dubai DiningIn a city that often confuses spectacle with experience, Rare proposes something quieter, more difficult, and ultimately more enduring: a restaurant designed not around performance, but around emotional ease.Show More
The Regional Edit | A Beirut’s Chairmaker Is Rethinking Everyday Luxury Through Lebanese CraftAs part of The Regional Edit, the Beirut-based entrepreneur discusses craft, visibility, and creating opportunities for women through design in the MENA region.Show More
Beyond Spectacle: The Mood Shift Around Art DubaiFrom ecological rhythms and organic matter to memory, tactility, and stillness, a quieter artistic sensibility appears to be emerging across Dubai’s galleries during Art Dubai week.Show More
The Rise of the Curated Interior: Gradient Opens at Alserkal AvenueWith the opening of Gradient at Alserkal Avenue, designer Nader Gammas joins a growing generation of regional creatives transforming galleries into immersive, collectible environments where lighting, vintage pieces, and contemporary design coexist through atmosphere rather than chronology.Show More
Art Dubai: A Redistribution of Cultural GravityFrom regional galleries to large scale commissions, the fair’s 20th edition maps the institutions, artists and conversations shaping the Middle East today.Show More
Boffi | DePadova Opens Its First Dubai Pop-Up at Alserkal Avenue Ahead of Its Dubai FlagshipAhead of its permanent UAE flagship opening in 2026, Boffi | DePadova arrives at Alserkal Avenue with an immersive pop-up developed alongside Atelio, exploring architecture, systems, craftsmanship, and a more integrated vision of contemporary living.Show More
Whispers Against the Noise: How the UAE Pavilion Turns Sound into a Political and Cultural Medium at VeniceAt the UAE Pavilion of the 2026 Venice Biennale, Washwasha transforms whispering into a cultural and political language, tracing how sound, oral memory, migration, and technological noise shape contemporary identities across the Gulf and beyond.Show More
Looking Is Never Neutral: Ramzi Mallat In The Arab HallAs part of the centenary programme at Leighton House, Lebanese multidisciplinary artist Ramzi Mallat inaugurates the museum’s Arab Hall: Past and Present series with Atlas of An Entangled Gaze, his first institutional commission in the United Kingdom.Show More