A survey of the late Emirati artist Hassan Sharif could go on show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Zaki Nusseibeh, the minister of state of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), speaking at an event organised by the fair Art Dubai at London’s Royal Academy of Arts on 23 July, said that the exhibition would open at the museum in 2020. According to a spokesperson for the museum, “the exhibition is under consideration by the Guggenheim but there is no specific date assigned yet”.
The lecture UAE: Past, Present, Future—a one-off event organised as part of the Emirati fair’s talks programme, the Global Art Forum—looked at the rapid development of the country since its founding in 1971. Nusseibeh used the show, travelling from its first iteration in the emirate of Sharjah to a major museum in New York, as an example of how far arts and culture in the UAE had developed in the past four decades.
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