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The Third Line The Third Line is a Dubai based contemporary art gallery. Represented artists include: Abbas Akhavan, Ala Ebtekar, Amir H.

Founded in 2005, The Third Line is a Dubai-based gallery that represents contemporary artists locally, regionally, and internationally. With over 19 years of dedicated commitment to the arts, it has become a pioneering platform for established talent and emerging voices from the region and its diaspora, building a dynamic program that explores the diversity of practices in the region. In addition to its exhibitions, The Third Line engages in the production of art publications in English and Arabic and hosts numerous non-profit, alternative programs that add to the discourse on art, film, music, and literature in the region. Fallah, Anuar Khalifi, Bady Dalloul, Farah Al Qasimi, Farhad Moshiri, Fouad Elkoury, Hassan Hajjaj, Hayv Kahraman, Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Jordan Nassar, Kamran Samimi, Laleh Khorramian, Lamya Gargash, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, Nima Nabavi, Pouran Jinchi, Rana Begum, Sahand Hesamiyan, Sara Naim, Sarah Awad, Shirin Aliabadi, Slavs and Tatars, Sophia Al Maria, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, yasiin bey, and Youssef Nabil.

In ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ Jordan Nassar (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) presents a series of small-scale mosaics,...
20/10/2026

In ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ Jordan Nassar (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) presents a series of small-scale mosaics, hand-cut in smalti tile and drawn from a Byzantine mosaic found in Jabalia, in northern Gaza.

Working from photographs and footage of the site available online, Nassar recreates the mosaic piece by piece—faithfully reconstructing what survives, and carefully filling the gaps where the original has been lost—in what he describes as a “tender gesture”: an act of care that holds an endangered work in collective memory. An orange tree, a lion, a human figure, and abstract patterns collectively invite us to imagine the whole.

“It’s like archiving, rehashing, and zooming in and out of a single historical mosaic.” — Jordan Nassar, in conversation with Sumayya Vally (Sumayya Vally).

On view until 24 October 2026
📍Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK

The exhibition is also available via the Online Viewing Room of our website — link in bio 🔗

Farah Al Qasimi (Farah) currently at ‘Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now,’ a group exhibition at Guggenheim New York (Guggenh...
19/10/2026

Farah Al Qasimi (Farah) currently at ‘Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now,’ a group exhibition at Guggenheim New York (Guggenheim New York), organized by Lauren Hinkson (Lauren Hinkson)

On view until 10 January, 2027
📍Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

The exhibition foregrounds a lesser-known chapter in the museum’s past: the role of British curator and critic Lawrence Alloway, who introduced Pop art to American audiences through the 1963 Guggenheim exhibition ‘Six Painters and the Object’

Bringing together both historical and contemporary perspectives, the exhibition illustrates how Pop renders the familiar strange, elevates the commercial to the sacred, and transforms the banal into the spectacular.

Image: Farah Al Qasimi, Woman in Leopard Print, 2019, Archival inkjet print, 101.6 x 76.2 cm

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Farah Al Qasimi (Farah) currently at ‘Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now,’ a group exhibition at Guggenheim New York (Guggenh...
19/10/2026

Farah Al Qasimi (Farah) currently at ‘Guggenheim Pop: 1960 to Now,’ a group exhibition at Guggenheim New York (Guggenheim New York), organized by Lauren Hinkson (Lauren Hinkson)

On view until 10 January, 2027
📍Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

The exhibition foregrounds a lesser-known chapter in the museum’s past: the role of British curator and critic Lawrence Alloway, who introduced Pop art to American audiences through the 1963 Guggenheim exhibition ‘Six Painters and the Object’

Bringing together both historical and contemporary perspectives, the exhibition illustrates how Pop renders the familiar strange, elevates the commercial to the sacred, and transforms the banal into the spectacular.

Image: Farah Al Qasimi, Woman in Leopard Print, 2019, Archival inkjet print, 101.6 x 76.2 cm

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At the heart of ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ is a new body of multi-panel embroidery works by Jordan Nass...
18/10/2026

At the heart of ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ is a new body of multi-panel embroidery works by Jordan Nassar (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹). Hand-stitched in the tradition of Palestinian tatreez, each work is composed of panels that can be rearranged into different configurations, so that a single piece becomes many.

Drawing on the modular logic of Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s ‘Convertible’ series, these luminous, densely patterned works hold Palestinian craft, geometry, and imagined landscape in a form that never quite settles—echoing, for Nassar, a homeland held in the imagination of the diaspora, assembled and reassembled anew.

On view until 24 October 2026
📍Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK

Image: Jordan Nassar, Walking On a Mountain, 2026, Hand-embroidered cotton on cotton, 29.21 x 113.03 x 3.81 cm (each).

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Shirin Aliabadi is part of ‘Imaginary Engine,’ a group exhibition at Large (Large), curated by Cecilia Alemani (Cecilia ...
16/10/2026

Shirin Aliabadi is part of ‘Imaginary Engine,’ a group exhibition at Large (Large), curated by Cecilia Alemani (Cecilia Alemani).

On view from 17 October 2026 until 7 March 2027
📍Large, Paris, France

Taking the distinctive history of île Seguin, once home to the Renault factories, as its starting point, ‘Imaginary Engine’ explores the connections between artistic creation, industry, innovation and society. Bringing historic works from the Fonds Renault pour l’Art et la Culture into dialogue with contemporary creations, it examines the major transformations of the modern world and the ways in which artists respond to them.

Conceived as a journey through the industrial memory of île Seguin and the worlds of imagination it continues to inspire, the exhibition invites visitors to look afresh at the relationships between people, machines and the narratives that shape our time.

Image: Shirin Aliabadi, Girls in Car 1 - 4, 2005, Color Photographic Print, 70 x 100 cm.

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Jordan Nassar’s (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ his second solo exhibition with The Third ...
15/10/2026

Jordan Nassar’s (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ his second solo exhibition with The Third Line, is now available to explore in full through our Online Viewing Room.

For those unable to visit Frieze No. 9 Cork Street (Cork Street Galleries) in person, the OVR brings the exhibition to you. It features a conversation between Nassar and architect Sumayya Vally (Sumayya Vally), tracing the ideas of diaspora, craft, and preservation that run through the show.

“My work is about embracing and figuring out what it means to be Palestinian not from Palestine.” — Jordan Nassar, in conversation with Sumayya Vally

Explore the exhibition online — link in bio 🔗

📍 Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK
On view until 24 October 2026

Farah Al Qasimi (Farah) is part of ‘Archipelago of Whispers,’ a group exhibition at 421 (421 Arts Campus), curated by De...
12/10/2026

Farah Al Qasimi (Farah) is part of ‘Archipelago of Whispers,’ a group exhibition at 421 (421 Arts Campus), curated by Deniz Kirkali (Deniz Kirkali) and Elham Puriya Mehr (Elham Puriya Mehr).

On view until 10 January 2027
📍 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE

‘Archipelago of Whispers’ turns to whispers, murmurs, hums, gossip and storytelling as alternative ways of making knowledge. Reframing gossip as an affective, caring and relational space rather than idle talk, the exhibition imagines a constellation of islands linked by the sea, where speech and silence, self and other, flow into one another. Through video, multi-channel and sound installations, it unfolds as a listening ecology in which viewers become listeners and co-authors, tracing how stories move through streets, social spaces and domestic interiors.

Image: Farah Al Qasimi, Everybody was Invited to a Party, 2018. Video Still.

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Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for the opening of ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ Jordan Nassa...
09/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday for the opening of ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال,’ Jordan Nassar’s (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) second solo exhibition with The Third Line, on view at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street (Frieze), London.
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📅8 – 24 October 2026
📍Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK
🕑Tuesday - Saturday: 10 am - 6 pm

The exhibition brings together a new body of multi-panel embroidery works and vibrant mosaics that recontextualize the history and aesthetic traditions of Palestine.

In his delicate embroidery works, Nassar introduces a new geometric language inspired by the seminal Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s Convertible series, while extending his poignant inquiry of color and patterns. The mosaics echo a Byzantine mosaic found in northern Gaza, inviting viewers to imagine the whole and its embedded narratives.

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Installation Views | Photo: Deniz Guzel.

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Youssef Nabil (YOUSSEF NABIL) is part of ‘Remember Me,’ a major group exhibition at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collect...
08/10/2026

Youssef Nabil (YOUSSEF NABIL) is part of ‘Remember Me,’ a major group exhibition at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Bourse de Commerce), curated by Matthieu Humery (Matthieu Humery) with Lola Regard.

On view until 18 January 2027
📍 Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, France

Marking the bicentenary of photography’s invention, ‘Remember Me’ brings together around 700 works by more than 70 artists from the Pinault Collection, the first time its photography holdings have been shown on this scale. The title comes from a work by Barbara Kruger, and the exhibition sets various genres and eras in dialogue, from Gustave Le Gray and Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman and Wolfgang Tillmans. Running through it is photography’s bond with memory: its power to hold a fleeting moment and keep a face from being forgotten.

Image: Youssef Nabil, The Yemeni Sailors of South Shields, 2006, 12 hand colored gelatin silver prints, 27 x 39 cm (each)

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TOMORROW: ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال’’ by Jordan Nassar (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) opens at Frieze No. 9 Cork Stre...
07/10/2026

TOMORROW: ‘No History of Shapes / لا تاريخ للأشكال’’ by Jordan Nassar (🌹🕊 جوردن نصار 🕊🌹) opens at Frieze No. 9 Cork Street (Frieze) ✨

🕐Opening Reception: 6 - 8 pm | 8 October 2026
📅8 – 24 October 2026
📍Frieze No. 9 Cork Street, London, UK

The exhibition brings together a new body of multi-panel embroidery works and vibrant mosaics that recontextualize the history and aesthetic traditions of Palestine.

In his delicate embroidery works, Nassar introduces a new geometric language inspired by the seminal Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian’s Convertible series, while extending his poignant inquiry of color and patterns. The mosaics echo a Byzantine mosaic found in northern Gaza, inviting viewers to imagine the whole and its embedded narratives.

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Image: Jordan Nassar, The Bursting of Shape, 2026, Hand-embroidered cotton on cotton, 100.33 x 73.66 x 3.81 cm (each).
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