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Qatar Museums

The exterior of Gubgub Studios featuring a large, vibrant red logo painted on the metal warehouse doors. The logo is surrounded by twinkling string lights, creating a festive atmosphere.

Inside Gubgub Studios, Qatar’s First Artist-Led Platform for Cross-Disciplinary Creatives

In one of the world's most institution-heavy art scenes, Gubgub Studios is making the case for independence.
By Elisa Carollo
A wide interior view of M7 shows a tall vertical banner reading “Art Basel Qatar” hanging between floors, with visitors moving through the space and staircases on either side.

Curated, Contextual, Slower and Strategic: A New Blueprint for Art Fairs Emerges in Doha

Blue-chip offerings at six- and seven-figure price points reinforced Art Basel Qatar’s institutional ambitions.
By Elisa Carollo

Observer’s 2025 Art Power Index: The Art Market’s Most Influential People

Their acquisitions, affinities and approbations move the needle on valuation and redefine how art is made, shown and sold.
By The Editors,  Christa Terry,  Dan Duray,  Elisa Carollo,  Farah Abdessamad,  and Merin Curotto
A woman in a black abaya walks past the striking desert-rose–inspired architecture of the National Museum of Qatar, its layered geometric forms rising above an older traditional building.

Cultural Diplomacy in Times of War: Is the Gulf’s Role as an Arts Destination Under Threat?

By Elisa Carollo
US-WEATHER-FIRE

Transcending Crisis Mode: Why Arts Philanthropy Must Move from Reactivity to Proactivity

By Aurelie Cauchy

The Most Influential People in Art

By The Editors, Christa Terry, Elisa Carollo, Merin Curotto, Mána Taylor and Su Ertekin-Taner

Six People Have Been Arrested in Connection to Vandalized Richard Serra Sculpture

By Helen Holmes

Richard Serra’s Repeatedly-Vandalized Qatar Work Has Been Damaged Again

By Helen Holmes
A man of the people. (Courtesy QMA)

Murakami Offers a Contest That Is Much More Laid Back Than Damien Hirst’s Spot Challenge

By Andrew Russeth
"1949-A-No.1" (1949) by Clyfford Still. (Courtesy Sotheby's)

Who Bought the $61 Million Clyfford Still Painting at Sotheby's? Not Israel Englander

By Sarah Douglas
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