It is said that Dubai is the most global of the global cities, and thus the perfect setting for a new three-day discussion platform: DIFC Global Art Forum. The Forum, hosted by the DIFC Gulf Art Fair, will bring an international group of over forty artists, curators, dealers, museum directors, critics and academics together for three days to focus on issues affecting art and the arts community, with the consideration of the Middle East as a driving force.
Bringing an open forum to an Art Fair is a complex balancing act, as the commercial aspects of an art market often challenge the positions of artists, curators and exhibition makers. The DIFC Global Art Forum hopes to reconcile these diverse perspectives and map out the constellation of ideas and opinions defining art today and in the future. The central themes of this year's Forum will be Artists and their work, The Next Ten Years of Contemporary Art in 2007programme the Middle East and Cities and Culture.