Zara Larsson, Kneecap, David Byrne, Little Simz, EsDeeKid, and a rare double bill with Yung Lean & Bladee are just some of the acts that await you this summer.You're in for a treat: fierce rap and hip hop, euphoric Swedish pop, an Irish phenomenon, an American rock pioneer, and brand new discoveries from across the globe are coming to Roskilde Festival!
Today, we're unveiling 24 new artists that cut through the winter darkness and give you every reason to look forward to the festival season ahead.
Amon them is Sweden's Zara Larsson, who will bring a full-scale pop explosion to the Orange Stage in July. Expect bangers, energy and one of the very finest voices in Scandinavia.

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Researchers at Berstein took into account the wide swath of tactics Europe’s luxury groups are deploying, from contributing to the restoration of artistic landmarks and sponsoring art museums to high-profile collaborations with famous artists and architects.
“Luxury brands need to associate themselves with global aspirations and ideals in order to ignite desire,” said the report, issued Wednesday. “Doing this in a de-globalizing world is tricky. Hence, the need to find naturally global realms — like the arts and the sports.”
Megabrands are best positioned to capitalize on the associations, given their financial might, rich heritage and capabilities to monetize enhanced branding, according to Bernstein.
The report includes some staggering figures, including an estimated 800-million-euro investment for the Frank Gehry designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, and the 25 million euros Tod’s ponied up for the restoration of the Coliseum in Rome.

Interview here https://youtu.be/bn0sjuUPH-U

Christmas Opera Gala
at Dubai Opera
Presented by Berin Iglesias Art. 
Tickets available here now.

On December 3rd, Berin Iglesias Art invites audience to a spectacular Christmas celebration in the finest Italian Opera tradition. World-class voices — tenor Vittorio Grigolo, baritone Luca Salsi, and rising soprano Alisa Medvedeva — for the very first time at Dubai Opera will perform beloved arias and operatic masterpieces, accompanied by the National Symphony Orchestra of Uzbekistan under Alibek Kabdurakhmanov.

Audience will be enchanted by classics from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, and more, as timeless music, magnificent voices, and a magical atmosphere come together to create an unforgettable holiday experience.

Vittorio Grigolo, the acclaimed best world’s tenor, Grammy nominated for Best Musical Show Album. He has won the Caruso Prize, the Puccini Prize, the Tiberini d'Oro, etc.

Luca Salsi, the legendary Italian baritone has graced the stages of leading opera houses worldwide, including the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, and the Royal Opera House.

Alisa Medvedeva, rising opera star, exceptionally talented soprano, winner of multiple prestigious international competitions. The artist made her debut performance together with legendary Andrea Bocelli.

Please note: This concert is a venue hire presented by a third-party promoter (Berin Iglesias Art) and is not produced or presented by Dubai Opera.

• Latecomers will not be admitted into the auditorium once the performance has begun.
• Entry will only be permitted during intermission, if applicable.
• No refunds will be accommodated in cases of non-admittance to the show due to late arrival.

Patricia Marshall (Fundación #Jumex, #Mexico) and Matthias Pfaller (Curator at the Centre Pompidou), Ian Duarte (Verve Gallery), surrounded by Roxane Dwek and Lucas Pouëdras (F.P.Journe).

 MAZE/Art Awards F.P.Journe
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 F.P.Journe presents the first MAZE/Art Awards F.P.Journe, recognising Brazilian artist Victor Fidelis for the work “No limit do privado” (2025, Verve Gallery, São Paulo), during MIRA in Paris. Within the MAZE constellation, MIRA is an intimate art fair dedicated to the contemporary Latin American scene, whose second edition was held at the Maison de l’Amérique latine. This award marks a new milestone in F.P.Journe’s commitment to artistic creation.

For more than a decade, F.P.Journe has supported artists and museum institutions through prizes that have enabled the acquisition of works for the collections of the MAMCO, the Fonds Municipal d’Art Contemporain de Genève and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. F.P.Journe continues this approach beyond traditional fair formats through its partnership with MAZE.

Founded in 2024 by Thomas Hug, MAZE brings together a series of international fairs dedicated to art, design and visual culture. Among them are MAZE Art Gstaad, MAZE Art St Moritz, Particolare Vienna, MIRA Paris, Loop Barcelona and MAZE Design Basel. Each fair focuses on encounters between galleries, artists and collectors in an intimate environment. Together, they form a platform that champions the diversity of approaches and the uniqueness of each location.

For this first edition, the jury was composed of Patricia Marshall (Fundación Jumex, Mexico) and Matthias Pfaller (Curator at the Centre Pompidou), whose background and experience reflect both the international scope of the award and the curatorial standards of the project. They highlighted the clarity of Victor Fidelis’s visual language and the emotional intelligence of his narrative. In “No limit do privado”, an ordinary pause becomes a space of meaning, where family, belonging, and identity intersect with the architecture that shelters them.

The values of the Manufacture – Authenticity, Rarity and Talent, brought together in the acronym A.R.T., express the close ties between F.P.Journe and art, as well as its commitment to contemporary creation.


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Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan inaugurates 17th edition of Abu Dhabi Art, advancing the capital’s vision for a thriving creative economy.

Abu Dhabi, UAE, 19 November 2025: His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, has inaugurated the 17th edition of Abu Dhabi Art, organised by the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi).
His Highness toured the event featuring 142 galleries from 34 countries, including 53 first- time fair participants. Abu Dhabi’s sustained and strategic investment in the UAE’s creative and cultural industries has been the driving force behind the fair’s expanded scale and increasingly diverse roster of exhibitors.
Highlighting the fair’s significance, His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan emphasised that Abu Dhabi Art plays a pivotal role in the emirate’s cultural vision by supporting the creative economy, cultivating talent, and strengthening global cultural dialogue. The fair continues to present under-researched art histories, integrate regional and international art markets, and amplify Abu Dhabi’s values, culture, and heritage on the world stage, creating equity in global art discourses. He praised the event’s continued success in showcasing the richness of Emirati artistic heritage while enabling collaboration
between artists, institutions, and collectors from around the world.

His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, said: “Abu Dhabi Art serves as a statement of Abu Dhabi’s growing
influence as a global cultural capital, reflecting our vision of creativity as a force that
connects people, ideas and generations. Increasing in global reach year by year, the annual
fair empowers artists, strengthens the creative economy, and helps shape a future where art
and culture inspire progress, innovation and exchange. It stands as a testament to our long-
term investment in a thriving cultural ecosystem, one that contributes to global dialogue
while deepening the UAE’s own artistic landscape.”

His Highness Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan was accompanied by His
Excellency Dr Anwar Mohammed Gargash, Diplomatic Adviser to the UAE President; His
Excellency Zaki Anwar Nusseibeh, Cultural Adviser to the UAE President and Chancellor of
the United Arab Emirates University; His Excellency Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Al Owais,
Minister of State for Federal National Council Affairs; His Excellency Khaldoon Khalifa Al
Mubarak, Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority; His Excellency Mohamed Khalifa Al
Mubarak, Chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi; His Excellency
Mohammed Ahmed Al Murr, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum Library Foundation; His Excellency Saif Saeed Ghobash, Secretary-
General of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Office of the Crown
Prince; and His Excellency Saood Abdulaziz Al Hosani, Undersecretary of the Department of
Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi.
For more information about the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi and the
destination, please visit: dct.gov.ae and abudhabiculture.ae


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Nicolas Panayotou exhibition in Paris during Art Basel Paris Fair, the exhibition is open till the 15th of November 2025. Courtesy hdgalerie.fr.

Through “Remember the Future”, Nicolas Panayotou extends a line of thought initiated on the wall of Paris’ 13th arrondissement, where his namesake kinetic mural engages in a dialogue with the urban environment. The gallery exhibition becomes an inner resonance of this monumental work, unfolding a universe where geometric abstraction, illusion of movement, and the memory of forms intertwine.

Trained at the École du Louvre and later at the Sorbonne, Panayotou is a French-Greek artist whose journey intersects art history with the energy of graffiti. Influenced by Vasarely, Soto, Agam, and Rondinone, he has spent over twenty years exploring the boundaries between painting, optical art, and digital language. His signature technique — the “digital hand” — counters the coldness of pixels with a meticulous, fully hand-crafted gesture, creating hypnotic kaleidoscopic spaces.
Panayotou is part of the kinetic art movement, and his painting seeks to capture the viewer’s eye by inducing perpetual motion within the stillness of the frame. He plays with repeating stripes, subtle gradients, and prismatic structures to generate luminous illusions: levitating spheres, vibrating grids, radiating beams… The effect is visual, but also mental — a dive into a floating dimension where matter seems to fade in favor of pure energy.
The series on view — Cosmic Clock, Pinacotheca, Boogie-Woogie — successively revisit the celestial sphere, ancient geometry, and the modern city. Suspended planets defying gravity, Egyptian pyramids seen from above and recomposed into segmented square patterns, and chromatic tributes to Mondrian all express a desire to forge a link between past and future, between the archaeology of forms and the pulse of the contemporary.
Remember the Future is a temporal and optical journey. Each canvas acts like a capsule: painting in the box, Pinacotheca in the digital age. While the gallery remains a place of grounding, the screen also becomes an exhibition space.
Panayotou does not merely represent movement — he embodies it in the very nature of his process, between material and immaterial, tangible and virtual.
In an era marked by technological acceleration, his work reminds us of the artist’s primary role: to anticipate, transmit, translate. Like a contemporary Pythia, he paints the future with the hands of the past.


The exhibition "Remember the Future" extends the monumental mural created by Nicolas Panayotou in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. This enigmatic title evokes the link between memory, perception, and projection: an invitation to look towards the future through the forms of the past.
 
"Remember the future" is a visual journey: from the tangible to the digital, from the past to tomorrow. A space where painting, light and illusion meet.


For Information: 
Fondateur - H.D Galerie
Tel: +33 6 28 56 15 41
45 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris
www.hdgalerie.fr

Firelight by Amy Friend is a captivating photographic collection that breathes new life into vintage photographs from the 1920s to the 1940s. Sourced from family albums, online finds, and market discoveries, these images are reimagined through Friend’s artistic vision. The series, titled “Dare alla Luce”—Italian for “to bring to the light”—embodies a dual meaning of illumination and birth.

By introducing delicate perforations and backlighting, Friend transforms these historical moments into
ethereal scenes where figures and landscapes are adorned with luminous patterns, evoking a sense of magic
and nostalgia.
This interplay of light and shadow invites viewers to reflect on the transient nature of time, memory, and
existence. Firelight is presented in a meticulously crafted volume, featuring laser-cut paper and French
binding, all encased in a clothbound box. This edition is a testament to the fusion of past and present, art and
artifact.
Curated by Laura Serani and designed by Gianni Giulianelli, Firelight is both a meditation on transience and a luminous dialogue between past and present.


This work began through conversations with my Nonna as we looked through old family albums, where fading memories revealed how photographs retain meaning even when their stories are incomplete. I began collecting vernacular images and, through hand-piercing the photographs to let light pass through, transformed each into something both material and immaterial. In doing so, I also consider the original photographer’s gesture, their light of that moment, as part of an ongoing dialogue about time, memory, and photography itself. The titles, whether from the image’s provenance or imagined, invite reflection on the boundaries between truth and invention, the instability of memory, and the overwhelming circulation of images in contemporary life- AF


 E Book HERE

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© 2025 Amy Friend

Photography: Amy Friend
Curated by: Laura Serani
Design: Gianni Giulianelli
Publisher: L’Artiere Edizioni
Launch date: September, 2025