Dubai is a self-proclaimed “city of the future”. Last month, it even opened the super high-tech Museum of the Future, where immersive technology lets visitors time travel to the year 2071 and explore space. Down the road is the Dubai Expo, a showcase of pioneering ideas from 192 participating countries, which will end its six-month run on 31 March. Against this backdrop, Art Dubai opens at its usual venue at Madinat Jumeirah for its 15th edition (11-13 March)—and it too has innovation in mind.
Capitalising on the trend for NFTs in the art world, the fair is launching the Art Dubai Digital section to “examine the context out of which NFTs, cryptocurrency, video art and virtual reality (VR) have grown since the rise of digital art in the 1980s, including those who are leading the way in the rapidly expanding digital arts space”, a statement says.
Seventeen galleries and platforms will present works in this section. The NFT curatorial platform MORROW Collective, which was founded in the NFT boom time of March 2021, is showing pieces by 35 artists with prices ranging from…
