Elen Levitt is art curator and columnist at World Arabia magazine and founder of ArtLevel, a boutique art company in the UAE. Articles, essays and interviews on the art market of the Emirates and the MENA region.
A print magazine on culture and lifestyle in the UAE, published in Dubai. Elen Levitt is the magazine's art curator. The magazine has no digital edition, so the article spreads are published here.
Elen Levitt's essay on Prince Nikita Lobanov-Rostovsky's visit to the UAE, his first in over forty years: a meeting with Bassam Freiha at the Bassam Freiha Art Foundation and the exhibition “A Royal Lineage: Across a Thousand Years of History” at BC Academy, Dubai. Elen Levitt curated the exhibition; ArtLevel co-organised it.
An exclusive interview by Elen Levitt with Natasha Carella, Director of Dubai Design Week: design as a cultural language, the Abwab and Urban Commissions programmes, the Editions fair and how Dubai builds a shared ecosystem of art and design.
An exclusive interview by Elen Levitt with Benedetta Ghione, Executive Director of Art Dubai, and Pablo del Val, Artistic Director: digital art, artists from South and Central Asia, Africa and Latin America, and the East–West dialogue at the Middle East's largest art fair.
Elen Levitt's review of the 16th Abu Dhabi Art (20–24 November 2024, Manarat Al Saadiyat): 102 galleries from 31 countries, over 35,000 visitors and 1,500 works, the fair's new sections, its VIP collector programme and highlights through an art advisor's eyes.
