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http://www.designdaysdubai.ae/visitors/information/ About us Design Days Dubai  is the leading fair in the Middle East and South Asia dedicated to collectible and limited edition furniture and design objects. The fair presents design from leading international designers and galleries alongside up and coming design from across the world. The fair also presents a strong non-commercial programme consisting of education, workshops, installations and live performances. Upcycling To Attain Perfection The promising young Jordanian architects behind Aperçu Designs explain how they transform unwanted wood with colored resin to produce elegant, bespoke furniture and ethereal lights that elevate the imperfect into beautiful collectible pieces. Albara Simaldahar of Jeddah-based design studio Dahr, discusses how his fascination with optical illusions and Islamic architecture inspired Qaws, a multifunctional piece that works as a stool, a high table and a coffee table dependin...

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https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/inventing-downtown-artist-run-galleries-in-new-york-city-1952-1965/

Between the apex of Abstract Expressionism and the rise of Pop Art and Minimalism, the New York art scene was transformed by artist-run galleries.  Inventing Downtown  presents works from fourteen of these crucibles of experimentation, highlighting artists’ efforts to create new exhibition venues for innovative works of art—ranging from abstract and figurative painting, assemblage, sculpture, and works on paper to groundbreaking installations and performances. Inventing Downtown  proposes viewing these fourteen galleries via five thematic groupings. Leaving Midtown  focuses on three Tenth Street galleries which adopted a cooperative business structure where expenses were shared among elected members:  Tanager Gallery ,  Hansa Gallery , and  Brata Gallery .  City as Muse  features four ventures that did not adopt the co-op model:   City Gallery ,  Reuben Gallery ,   Delancey Street Museum , and  Judson Gallery . They ar...

part of the panel today At the armory show Collecting digital art Technology Preservation and Posterity Tabor Robak artist Chrissie Iles Whitney museum Pamela and richard Kramlich collectors Michael Connor Rhizome Suma Familiant private curator Michael Xufu Huang

First, the facts:  Michael Xufu Huang  of Beijing is a 22-year-old student at the  University of Pennsylvania , where he is pursuing degrees in art history and marketing and is an active brother in the  Zeta Psi  fraternity. He’s also a co-founder of the nonprofit private art museum  M WOODS , located in Beijing’s flowering (and rapidly gentrifying) factory complex-cum-creative center  798 Art District . Since its inception in 2014, M Woods has hosted exhibitions featuring a mix of Chinese and international artists, from giants like  Ai Weiwei  and  Tracey Emin  to up-and-comers like  Petra Cortright   and  Yu Hongli . It’s a self-consciously hip and dynamic museum that reflects the continually evolving Chinese art market, which Huang himself may exemplify. He's young, hungry, luxury-obsessed, and unstoppable.  A collector from age 16, Huang is in good company with the other founders of M Woods,  Wanwan ...