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TDIC holds education workshop for Saadiyat Cultural District museums
“TDIC’s Cultural Department has been leading up toward the opening of these museums by presenting a variety of high-profile public programmes and educational projects. Today, we have united all of the Emirate’s main institutions in supporting these same goals,”
Dubai’s Debt Blues Drowned Out by Chopin, Marsalis in Abu Dhabi
Pianist Yundi Li and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis are names not often associated with Abu Dhabi, home to more than 7 percent of the world’s oil supply. Starting today, the Gulf emirate will honor these and many other artists.
UAE to host Islamic embroidery exhibition
The rich tradition of Islamic embroidery, from Pakistan to Morocco, will be showcased at an exhibition starting April 6 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) capital, WAM news agency said on Friday. The exhibition, ‘A Story of Islamic Embroidery in Nomadic and Urban Traditions’, will bring together more than 200 rare and majestic textiles, including a wealth of embroideries from Central Asia that have never been exhibited before in the region.
Culture Vultures
No longer content with simply relying on the vast wealth that it pumps from its huge oil reservoirs, Abu Dhabi has ambitions to become one of the world’s top cultural destinations. The United Arab Emirates’ capital is spending $100 billion to diversify its oil-reliant economy into a tourist hub, which it hopes will attract 2.3 million visitors by 2013.
Saadiyat show’s finale portrays urban life as art
By Anna Seaman www.thenational.ae
Abu Dhabi // Artists, students, families and cultural aficionados packed Artscape Madina on Saadiyat Island last night at the close of the island’s first art exhibition.
The interactive art show, organised by the Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), celebrated Disorientation II: The Rise and Fall of Arab Cities, and the varied [...]
Abu Dhabi launches tender for Louvre museum
Abu Dhabi’s Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC) said on Tuesday it has launched the main tender competition for building a branch of the Louvre museum on its flagship development Saadiyat Island. “The main contract works, the dome, mechanical, electrical, is tendered today,” Felix Reinberg, director of projects delivery at TDIC’s museum division, told reporters on the sidelines of a tour of the island.
