Book Projects
The NYUAD Art Gallery publishes original research and scholarly publications annually. The publications support the Art Gallery’s curatorial program that explores locally relevant and internationally significant subjects. The publications accompany exhibitions on display at the Art Gallery. Each publication features essays by scholars, curators, and art historians, as well as artist interviews and primary source material.
The NYU Abu Dhabi Art Gallery: 2014-2020 (2021)
This dual-language English-Arabic publication tells the origin story
of The NYUAD Art Gallery – the first of its kind in the Arabian
Peninsula – giving voice to the founders and collaborators.
Zimoun (2019)
This is the first monograph on the artist and is published on the occasion of Zimoun’s first exhibition in the Arab world. With essays by five international curators and writers.
Ways of Seeing (2018)
Ways of Seeing This book is published in conjunction with the traveling exhibition under the same title, whic…
But We Cannot See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community (2017)
This is a survey of the UAE’s avant-garde community, which formed in the 1980s. This is the first comprehensive sourcebook for one of the most important contemporary art communities in the UAE’s history.
Diana Al Hadid: Phantom Limb (2016)
Diana Al Hadid: Phantom Limb This monograph surveys the oeuvre of Syrian-American artist Diana Al-Hadid at a …
Slavs and Tatars: Mirrors for Princes (2015)
Slavs and Tatars: Mirrors for Princes Founded in 2006, the art collective Slavs and Tatars is devoted to cult…