Art Worlds is back! 

The second series starts in the United Arab Emirates with Maya Allison, the founding executive director of The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery and chief curator at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Integrated within the NYU campus, the gallery has at its forefront an educational mission to expand scholarship of the area’s long tradition of artistic practice. 

As part of this remit, Allison has delved into the art communities that pre-date the international focus on the UAE. Her seminal exhibition ‘But We Cannot See Them’ surveyed avant-garde artists and writers associated with the late 1980s and was accompanied by a comprehensive sourcebook. 

This year Maya was nominated by the artist Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim to be the curator of the UAE Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale. She discusses this prestigious project and how working in the region has expanded her approach to exhibition making.  

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