Dubai royal showcases unique art collection at festival

Visitors to the annual Quoz Arts Fest, taking place at Alserkal Avenue on January 27-28, will be able to view a unique private art collection, spanning two decades and including a range of leading Arab and international artists.

Sheikha Lateefa bint Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the art collector, curator, and artist who founded Tashkeel in 2008, has partnered with FN Designs to showcase some of her best-loved works, including pieces by celebrated Emirati artists such as Abdul Qadir Al Rais and Dr. Najat Makki, and UAE-based calligraphers Majid Alyousef and Wissam Shawkat.

The exhibition will house works in a variety of mediums, ranging from thousands of mirror fragments in the work of Monir Farmanfarmaian, to diamond dust sprinkled across Damien Hirst’s silkscreen Diligam Te Domine, and Korean artist Yong Rae Kwon’s stainless steel elements on canvas.

• Look: This portrait of Sheikh Mohammed is made up entirely of coffee beans