Dubai’s gradual recovery from the nadir of its 2009 financial crisis is being played out in the familiar settings of offices parks, hotels and warehouses – but also in the strikingly unconventional milieu of art galleries.
Like the international merchant traders who have long shifted goods through Dubai’s freeports, a new generation of gallerists has made the city a centre for modern art, produced in places from Pakistan to Egypt and sold on to a regional and global audience.
“Dubai’s entrepreneurial spirit goes very well with contemporary art,” says Claudia Cellini of The Third Line, a bustling local gallery. “There’s just something about it.”
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