Returning for a third successful year at Art Dubai, The Global Art Forum played host to a series of lectures and discussions featuring leading contemporary art thinkers. The forum continued to create links between East and West through the exploration of professional and public interests in art. It examined public support for the arts, corporate and private collecting and art patronage taking into consideration the state of the economic climate. Other topics under discussion included ‘The Art Party’, and focuses on cities such as Athens, Moscow and Tehran.