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It has been a challenging year for the arts. Despite the migration of events to the digital realm, artists and art spaces have grappled with financial downturns, while institutions have been pushed to confront their legacies of violence and exclusion.
As 2020 comes to close, here are the biggest moments in the art world, the effects of which will continue to shape how we experience, think about or talk about art in the year to come.
Closed and cancelled
It started with Art Basel Hong Kong, the first major art fair to be
cancelled as the coronavirus made its way around the world. The Asian edition of the mammoth international art event was called off in February, ahead of its March schedule. Others soon followed suit – in the UAE, Art Dubai eventually adapted to a virtual fair, while Sharjah Art Foundation’s March Meeting was postponed, with new 2021 dates only recently announced. Big fairs such as Frieze in New York and Art Basel in Switzerland and Miami also moved to
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Variety of flowers in Sharjah Art Foundation’s 2021 spring programme
16 Dec 2020
Muhammad Yusuf, Features Writer
Sharjah Art Foundation (SAF) has announced its spring 2021 programme, which sees the return of the foundation’s annual March Meeting (MM), in an expanded in-person and virtual format. MM 2021 will serve as a prelude to Sharjah Biennial 15’s (SB15) Thinking Historically in the Present, opening spring 2022. The spring 2021 programme also features major solo shows, exploring the work of influential artists from the MENASA region, the first Sharjah Art Foundation Collection exhibition to be held in the newly renovated Flying Saucer, and the third international collaboration to present the foundation’s expansive Hassan Sharif retrospective to a global audience.
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Sharjah Art Foundation will stage an exhibition of its art collection for the first time in March 2021. The foundation has also confirmed dates for March Meeting next year, in addition to an upcoming major show on Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet.
The annual March Meeting (MM) will take place from March 12 to 21 with a hybrid format of in-person and online
events. Instead of the usual three-day duration, next year’s event will extend over 10 days and will serve as the launch for the Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present for 2022. Both events were postponed because of the Covid-19 pandemic.