Maya Allison
@_maya_allison
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Curator National Pavilion of the UAE to the Venice Biennale / Chief Curator New York University Abu Dhabi, Executive Director of The NYUAD Art Galleries.
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Joined October 2008
“The Defining Exhibitions of 2022” according to ARTnews includes our fall exhibition “Khaleej Modern.” It’s a time for celebration. Thank you all who made this possible! @artnews
https://t.co/oqoq5r781G via @artnews
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"With his brother’s death, Bringley experienced a quiet reckoning, away from striving and into silence. 'My heart is full, my heart is breaking, and I badly want to stand still awhile,' he writes.” A Museum Guard’s Ode to the Healing Power of Art
hyperallergic.com
In All the Beauty in the World, Patrick Bringley revisits the many ways that art meets life, and life art, and how death is often the bridge between them.
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Thank you Johna Arlidge and Travel + Liesure for visiting NYU Abu Dhabi as part of writing "A Guide to Abu Dhabi's World-class Museums and Galleries" @NYUADArtGallery @NYUAbuDhabi
https://t.co/oov1NYwkXg via @TravelLeisure
travelandleisure.com
Abu Dhabi is spending big to become the Middle East's art capital — here are the best museums and galleries to visit.
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Witness how nine artists from around the world confront landscape in the exhibition ‘the only constant,’ curated by Executive Director @_maya_allison, now on view at The NYUAD Art Gallery. Opening times: Feb 22 - June 4 12 - 8 pm Tuesdays to Sundays (closed Mondays)
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Join us on Saturday, March 18, for @NYUAbuDhabi’s first Open Campus Day. Our student docents will guide tours of The Art Gallery & our new exhibition #theonlyconstant as well as a Youth Guide workshop where children can create their own guide to the exhibition as a comic book.
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We are honored to have our exhibition 'the only constant' featured on @Artforum's Must See list! Visit The NYUAD Art Gallery to view 'the only constant,' on view until June 4. https://t.co/uk3qPgELG1
artguide.artforum.com
In this exhibition, artists confront our contemporary landscape, with a focus on the moment where humans change landscape, and landscape changes humans.
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Join us for a compelling talk on "#MohamedAhmedIbrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset," the publication accompanying the National Pavilion UAE at the #BiennaleArte2022. 🗓 Thursday, 26 January ⏰ 7 pm 📍 Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai Register via https://t.co/mXe2JsaG55
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Joining the artist, @AlmansooriMomo and Nora Razian, Head of Exhibitions at @Art_Jameel, for the talk are the co-editors of the first monograph of the artist's work, curator @_maya_allison and Cristiana de Marchi (@zoebilbeit).
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... See our post-show reflections on Khaleej Modern with @NYUADArtGallery head @_maya_allison
https://t.co/fIzUSjYRJ3
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Congratulations to the @sharjahmuseums for "top 25 Defining Exhibitions of 2022" with their Aref El-Rayess at Sharjah Art Museum! https://t.co/aq78sGv192 via @artnews
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A Q+A with me and Dr. Aisha Stoby about the role of the survey exhibition as a way to start the journey of art historical mapping.
selectionsarts.com
Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula, run from September 6 to December 11, 2022 at The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery.
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We had a remarkable turnout this year at Biennale Arte 2022! “Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: Between Sunrise and Sunset" welcomed 277,203 visitors, making it the most visited exhibition to date. Thank you to @la_Biennale for sharing this short film with curator @_maya_allison.
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"The work that Mohamed and his artistic community have done over the decades are part of how the creative scene in the UAE has come to be so thriving today." - curator @_maya_allison *Photo by Kathleen Hoare #mohamedahmedibrahim #UAEinVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #IlLatteDeiSogni
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"I once asked if his artwork is inspired in part by the plants outside his window, so many of which bear a striking resemblance to his branching sculptures. No. In fact, he also shapes the garden. The word he uses in Arabic is tahdhib (grooming, pruning, or cultivating)."
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Congratulations to our colleagues at @NYUGrey on two major announcements: a move to a larger location, and a change of name to the "Grey Art Museum" in February 2024 -- led with steadfast rigor and vision by Director Lynn Gumpert and Associate Director Michèle Wong. @nyuniversity
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Curator @_maya_allison says that a big part of her role is to bring the work to life for the viewer. But how to do this for the NPUAE 2022 exhibition, where the work is so abstract? *Photo by Mohamed Somji
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Inside The NYUAD Art Gallery's long overdue exhibition highlighting the region's art pioneers https://t.co/clLSVcAuUd via @TheNationalNews
thenationalnews.com
Curated by Dr Aisha Stoby, Khaleej Modern examines the early evolution of visual art movements in the Arabian Peninsula
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The Venice Pavilion opening video is out! I’m so moved and proud to have been a part of the artist’s journey. Thank you @pavilionuae for creating this beautiful capsule video of the opening days. #uae #contemporaryart @la_Biennale @NYUAbuDhabi @NYUADArtGallery
Between the artist and his world, a beautiful dialogue unfolds. Watch our short film of the full Biennale experience of “Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim: From Sunrise to Sunset,” curated by @_maya_allison, which invites the audience to engage in a greater conversation. #UAEinVenice
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