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Harvey Nichols – Dubai pays tribute to Oscar de la Renta and his career as a leading fashion icon with it's ‘Legendary Style’ – in-store event.The first of it's kind in Dubai, the event will highlight memorable red carpet and runway gowns from previous Oscar de la Renta collections.Also being shown will be a selection from the Spring Summer 2015 collection.

‘Legendary Style’ will showcase the extraordinary talent and creativity of one of the world's most celebrated designers.These spectacular red carpet and runway gowns, worn by models and celebrities throughout de la Renta's career, illustrate his sense of style and love of beauty.The exclusive VIP event will feature stunning pieces of the current Spring Summer 2015 collection including a selection of daywear, shoes, bags, fur and eveningwear.

Date     : 13 April - 13 May, 2015

Venue  : Harvey Nichols Dubai

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In line with Cities Boutique's drive to encourage and support artists and designers, the region's pioneering art and design concept store will host an in-store exhibition of works by Greek-American artist Fotis Gerakis showcasing skateboard art form in the boutique.

The purpose of the exhibition is to encourage viewers to discover the world of art that often resides within the realm of design.Fotis Gerakis' skateboard art focuses on contrast, mastery of the self, fantasy, objectification, and desire, making his urban style artwork worthy of further examination.

Fotis Gerakis is a lifelong artist whose previous creations include endless experimentations.He has been educated, lived, and traveled around the world.Within his professional career, his motion graphic and art direction work was awarded multiple times with prestigious Emmy and Telly awards, and he also received a silver BDA/PROMAX award.He has taught at the university level and he was also one of the co-founders of a successful design firm based in Riyadh and Beirut, where he helped influence the design trends of the region.

This exhibition aims to introduce the art of Fotis Gerakis to the public while encouraging new forms of artistic expression.His debut is part of a series of events that Cities has planned in order to further the education and exposure of viewers to the endless forms of art and design available.

Date   : 19 April - 29 April, 2015

Venue: Galleria Mall, Dubai, UAE.

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Celebrating another year of Beauty excellence, AREEJ hosts the annual and exclusive Beauty Extravaganza across all its stores from 1^{st -} 30^th April 2015.

In celebration of a month dedicated to beauty, AREEJ will also offer customers the chance to take their make-up skills to the next level with beauty master classes, which will cover popular techniques as well as beauty basics such as ‘The Smokey Eye’, ‘Contouring’ and Flash make-up’ for beauty addicts on the go.

The beauty obsessed can visit AREEJ from April 10 to be amongst the first to exclusively experience ‘French Paradise’, Lancôme’s Summer Make-up Collection of luminous corals, refreshing azures, power pastels.That's not all, add a pop of colour to your dresser with a limited edition AREEJ make-up brush case containing 4 professional make-up brushes, upon a spend of AED 699 or or 69.

With a host of the finest offers from international beauty brands such as Dior, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Lancome, Illamasqua, Clarins and Givenchy to name a few, there's never a better time to stock up on all your beauty must-haves.

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You're invited! Socialista Boutique is hosting a pop up called THE HUT this coming Tuesday and Wedesday, co-hosted by Juniors Be Junior.The Hut will host the top emerging brands of the region, good music and very yummy snacks.


Date     : 24 March - 25 March, 2015

Timings: 11AM - 8PM

Venue   :Socialista Boutique, The Sunset Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road, Dubai.
               
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Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce Drawings on Paper, the forthcoming solo show of Syrian painter Nihad Al Turk.Featuring a new body of work, the exhibition will highlight an essential component of Al Turk's artistic practice by examining his use of drawing as a formal device that gives volume and depth to expressionist figures and objects-subjects that appear to shift in place as masses trapped in disfigured shells. 

Although widely known for allegorical paintings exploring a cast of monstrous, semi-autobiographical characters, Al Turk recently produced a series of large ink and acrylic drawings that chronicle the current conflict in Syria from it's early days as a popular uprising to it's current state as an all-consuming war. 

Al Turk's new works follow a period of his art that restructured his compositions as he injected brilliant hues and minimised backgrounds with flat areas of colour.Inspired by his move from Damascus to Beirut after the outbreak of the war, the last series is ostensibly optimistic.In contrast, his most recent drawings provide a somber account of displacement through a medium that allows for the laden inferences of markings.As the artist's lines seem to cut into the surface of the paper, an evident tension is created. 


Date     : 2 April - 28 May, 2015

Timings: 2 April (7PM - 9PM)

Venue  : Beirut Tower, Ground floor, Zeitoune Street, across from Beirut Marina.

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Experience a night of Botanical Fashion at Valleydez boutique, as they unveil their latest arrivals, which include stunning collections from Monique Lhuillier, Tony Ward, Manish Arora, Amit Agarwal and many more.

Date     : 23 March, 2015

Timings: 6PM - 9PM

Venue   : Valleydez at Sunset Mall, Jumeirah Beach Road.

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Initially launched in Cairo by two women whose love for art exceeded the boundaries of their own homes,‘Part With Your Art’ is a one-of-a-kind social event entirely devoted in showcasing people's personally-owned works of art along with the hopes of scouring a new favorite that will make a statement without breaking the bank.

Along with co-founder and creator, Laila Naga, Iris Dubai invites and encourages art patrons and owners to take part in ‘Part with Your Art’, all in the hopes of transforming your home space to feel more like you.

“Iris Dubai will be transformed into an open art market that will focus on acquiring and selling pieces of art while also creating a space for socializing and embracing the art world,” said Karim Jaber, Iris’ founder and managing partner.

How to sell your art:

Visit www.irisdubai.com art in order to login and submit your art piece's necessary details.Iris Dubai will in turn contact you to discuss availability and the procedures of the event.Art submission ends on April 11.

Date          : 18 April - 22 April

Timings     : 4PM - Onwards

Venue       : The Oberoi, Dubai (27th floor).

Telephone: +971569511442

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Design pioneer, Nada Debs will be hosting an exciting launch event to showcase an exclusive collection of her iconic pieces and never before seen furniture and home accessories at design concept store, Comptoir 102.

This year, Debs celebrates the extraordinary 10-year journey of her international furniture and home accessory brand.Following the formative years of her artistic career where the focus was to combine Middle Eastern craft and modern design, Nada Debs will progress into an even more minimalistic and clean design aesthetic continuing forward.

Comptoir 102 is the perfect synergy to Nada Debs' novel direction where interiors are synonymous with contemporary living.Her pieces seamlessly tie into the signature identity of the story-telling concept store. 

Date     : 16 March - 16 May, 2015

Timings: 6PM - 9PM

Venue  : 102 Jumeirah Road, Dubai, UAE.

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Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce it's participation in this year's Art Dubai from 18 until 21 March.Returning to the region's leading art fair with recent examples by Nadim Karam, Faisal Samra, Safwan Dahoul, Sama Alshaibi, Kais Salman, Mouteea Murad, Athier Mousawi, and Alireza Fani, the gallery's curated selection will spotlight artworks that either consider the precarity of the present, on both micro and macro levels, or offer bold visions for the future. 

Date     : 18 March - 21 March, 2015

Timings: 18 March (4PM - 9:30PM) INVITE ONLY

Venue  : Madinat Arena, booth J-24, Johara Ballroom, Dubai, UAE.

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Gallery Ward Dubai is thrilled to invite you to the opening preview of Linked Itineraries, Reminiscence, and Representation.This exhibition marks a significant meeting point in the regional exhibition movement, presenting works side to side by two widely celebrated and inspirational figures in the Arab World art: Adam Henein and Farouk Hosny.Two personal styles and languages, interlinked in the ways each translate visually personal inspiration.

Linked Itineraries, Reminiscence, and Representation brings back Adam Henein and Farouk Hosny after their seminal exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum Farouk Hosny/Adam Henein: Contemporary Egyptian Artists and Heirs to an Ancient Tradition in 1999.

Date     : 11 March, 2015

Timings: 7PM - Onwards

Venue  : Gallery Ward, Dubai.

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Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Sand Rushes In, the forthcoming solo exhibition of United States-based, Palestinian-Iraqi artist Sama Alshaibi.Curated by Isabella Ellaheh Hughes, the exhibition will highlight Silsila (2009-present), an ongoing multimedia project by the artist that was shown as part of the Maldives Pavilion of the 2013 Venice Biennale.Alshaibi has recently created new works for the series, including video installations and large-scale photographs.Sand Rushes In will also mark the UK launch of the artist's eponymous monograph, which is edited by the curator and published by Aperture Foundation, New York.

Inspired by the nomadic traditions of Bedouins and the writings of fourteenth-century Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta, Silsila (Arabic for ‘chain’ or ‘link’) depicts the artist's journey through the significant desert areas and bodies of water that connect North Africa and West Asia to the Maldives, an island nation located in the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Performing at various sites in North Africa and West Asia, Alshaibi has composed a body of work that describes the desert as a place of enduring paradox.As Alshaibi demonstrates with visual poetics and laden imagery, the desert can serve as the starting point for a broader cultural reading, revealing the mystical and historical importance of such environments, through which the region, even more broadly, the world, can re-imagine an uncertain ecological future. 

Date         : 26 March - 9 May, 2015

Timings    : 26 March (6PM - 8PM)

Venue      : 143 New Bond Street, 1st Floor, W1S 2TP, London. 

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Opera Gallery Dubai, part of the internationally renowned Opera Gallery network, is set to exhibit Argentinian artist Antonio Segui’s new collection of paintings.The collection, which will be shown during Art Dubai 2015 ties in nicely with this year's focus on Latin America, showcasing Segui's fascination with cities, urban landscapes and multiculturalism on a global level.The artist will attend the opening night of the exhibition.

One of the greatest Latin American painters, Segui's past three decades of work illustrates his attraction with the city, it's people and it's pulse.Visually, Segui presents the 'everyman' in his work, an anonymous passerby amid the swarm and hustle and bustle of city life exploring man's place in society and surroundings.

Date       :18 March - 1 April, 2015

Timings  : 7 PM - Onwards

Venue    : Opera Gallery, Gate Village Building 3, DIFC, Dubai.

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Ayyam Gallery is pleased to announce Femafia, the solo exhibition of acclaimed Iranian artist Afshin Pirhashemi, who returns to Dubai with a new body of work.Pirhashemi's evident fascination with women, their struggles in hostile environments, and a resulting combative character, now expand to a wider scope of observation, tainted by the atmosphere that has been surrounding the artist for the past year.News, films, and women, among others, ignited a shifting outlook on the world that Pirhashemi has translated with his unmistakable style into photorealistic portraits defiantly laying on minimalist backgrounds. 

While Pirhashemi's consummate brushwork remains a constant, his instantly recognisable monochromatisms seemingly dissolve, allowing colours to gain territory on his canvases.Following his UK show last year (Seduction, Ayyam Gallery London), in which two large-scale paintings introduced nude hues on the faces of his bold heroines, Pirhashemi’s thirst for pigments amplifies after years of colour abstinence. 

Through carefully orchestrated depictions of his flamboyant characters, paired with strong, symbolic, and revealing titles, Pirhahsemi takes the viewer on a narrative road to an evolving psychic state that translates his oeuvre into one continuous series.

Date     : 16 March - 30 April, 2015

Timings: 16 March (7PM - 10PM)

Venue  : Ayyam Gallery, Gate Village 3, DIFC, Dubai.

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After launching it's 2 storey department store located in Zamalek, ABn'G is now proud to invite you to the opening of it's funkier and second branch named - "The Caravan".With a gorgeous setup situated in Cairo Festival City, The Caravan carries a diverse selection of 'must haves' which accomodate almost every palate.

Against popular superstition, The Caravan has been effectively open since Friday the 13th; bringing art and love to every visitor and passer by.However they have chosen the 20th of February to be their official celebration, hoping you too can join in on the fun and help them make some noise!

It will be a full day of festivity inaugurating some of the coolest and edgiest underground artists and musicians.In fact, expect some phenomenal sketch art by uber talented Hassan Hassan; his work will be on display during the opening for everyone to admire.One-of-a-kind photographer Taimour Othman will also be exhibiting his recent work named 'Roam Egypt'- a project aimed at showcasing a excerpts of Egypt that we probably have never seen.Also don't miss the enticing photography exhibit by photographer/wanderer Nour Kamel who has managed to portray urban reality through a playfully colorful lens.

Aside from their wide selection of edgy displays, unique art pieces, select fashion items and one-of-a-kind furniture, they are also thrilled to welcome on board Lychee, VNTG Eyewear, Deana Shaaban, Tajalli, Atika, and Bashayer.


Date      : 27 February, 2015

Venue   : Cairo Festival City Residence, Cairo, Egypt

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Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to present Civilised Society, the solo show of Syrian painter Kais Salman.Debuting the artist's latest body of work, the exhibition will feature paintings that satirically explore the realm of politics in the Arab world through its various archetypes.Deconstructing the historical tradition of portraiture as a demonstration of power or social status, Salman scrutinises the public posturing of political figures-from armchair activists to international delegates.

At the same time, the new series demonstrates a shift in Salman's painting style as he employs a brilliant palette with a combination of expressionism and realism and introduces vividly described settings.These formal elements draw the viewer into each composition as mundane trappings surround monstrous figures.In The Anonymous Arab(2014), for example, a protagonist is enlivened by painterly brushmarks as he holds a meticulously rendered mask of the international hacktivist group.Outfitted in a tuxedo while lounging on an antique sofa, he is portrayed as a self-assured dandy experiencing a life of privilege. 

Date     : 29 January - 20 March, 2015

Timings: 29 January ( 7PM - 9PM)

Venue  : Beirut Tower, Ground Floor, Zeitoune Street, Across from Beirut
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Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC) is pleased to announce LOL, the solo show of influential Syrian artist Khaled Takreti.Highlighting Takreti's latest body of work, the exhibition travels to Dubai after a highly successful debut at Ayyam Gallery's Beirut outpost in September 2014, where a new monograph on the artist was simultaneously launched.

LOL demonstrates Takreti's recent innovations in painting through a methodical process that involves multiple stages of executing his compositions.In each work, the artist begins with appropriated or photographic imagery then creates a stencil that serves as the outline of his subjects as he renders an ‘etching’ on the sparse background of untreated canvas. 

The new, bilingual monograph on the artist will be available at the DIFC installment of the exhibition.Featuring a catalogue of reproductions spanning two decades of Takreti's oeuvre, the publication also includes essays by critic, editor, and novelist Pascal Amel and Ayyam Gallery artistic director and chief writer Maymanah Farhat.

Date     : 14 January - 12 March, 2015

Timings: 14 January (7PM - 9PM)

Venue  : Ayyam Gallery, Gate Village 3, DIFC, Dubai.

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One of our favorite fashion events is just around the corner, Cairo's Fashion Nights fourth edition, powered by Pashion Magazine.

Over 80 in house boutiques, retailers, visiting designers, and fashion schools will showcase their latest collections in fashion, accessories and fine jewelry at The First Mall Cairo in Giza.So mark your calendars and get your outfits ready!

Find out more about the list of participating exhibitors here and, if you're in Cairo, enjoy the one-day shopping extravaganza.


Date     : 13 December, 2014

Timings: 12PM - 11PM

Venue  : The First Mall, 35 Giza Street, Giza, Egypt.

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Today marks the highly anticipated launch of acclaimed online gallery Arts-Mart's first permanent physical art space, Arts-Mart The Gallery.The innovative online platform now presents Egyptian artists a tangible space where they can interact with their audience whilst providing the public with meaningful experiences and encounters with the visual arts in a relaxed and modest environment.

To celebrate the opening, Egyptian artist Mohamed Abla will display an exclusive collection of his work spanning across 30 years.The prolific artist,renowned for capturing intimate moments within Egypt's history and concerns in society, will present viewers the rare opportunity to glimpse his homages to the country.

Like it's digital sister, The Gallery is able to establish itself among the cultural leaders within the world of art by guaranteeing art aficionados across the globe unrivalled access to work from an eclectic mix of today’s contemporary up-and-coming Egyptian artists including Ibrahim El Tanbouli, Omar Abdelzaher, Abdelwahab Abdelmohsen, Mohamed El Damarawy, Mohamed Rabie, Aya El Fallah, Mohamed El Sharkawy, El Zaeem Ahmad and Arts-Mart very own Lina Mowafy among others. 


Date     : 5 December, 2014

Timings: 1PM - 10PM

Venue  : Arts-Mart The Gallery, Cairo-Alex Desert Road, 2 km from Mehwar
                Exit, Cairo, Egypt.

Website: www.arts-mart.com

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NAKKASH Gallery, known for its dedication to highlighting and showcasing contemporary design and antiques, brings yet another reputable artist into its inspiring mix, Jaber Alwan.Displaying his works at the gallery, Alwan is set to enrich art lovers with his vision as he expresses his life views on canvas.

Alwan's brilliant pieces have been displayed across the globe and have effortlessly narrated the arbitrary color and emotion that goes into each stroke he fashions.Unveiling Jaber Alwan, the famous Iraqi/Italian name, NAKKASH will showcase the artist within the gallery next month.

Date     : 8 December, 2014

Timings: 7PM - 10PM

Venue  : Nakkash Gallery, Sheikh Zayed Branch, Dubai, UAE.

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On it's second round, Riyadh Fashion Days is coming to life very soon, featuring an exciting variety of local and regional designers in the fashion industry.This time around, the event will be conceptualized as a Showcase.

Riyadh Fashion Days will be a talent-hunt opportunity like no other.The vision is to establish a solid ground for the Saudi fashion industry through an outstanding Fashion Design Competition that highlights local talents.Many local designers have made their footprints in the industry through Maison Bo-M and they want to showcase the various pathways each designer has gone through.

Riyadh Fashion Days will become a fashion talent hub for all those interested in moving forward in the industry, in which solid grounds are being established.Therefore a big part of the event will include workshops, talks and panel-discussions by prominent educational institutes in the local and regional market.

Date      : 16 November, 2014 - 31 January, 2015

Timings: 16 November (7PM) - Onwards

Venue  : Maison Bo-M Galeries, Nojoud mall, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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