Editor's word

In Dubai, the art season begins. In March-April, galleries from around the world will gather in the creative spaces of the city to demonstrate the latest ideas in design, art and architecture. Get ready to see the most unimaginable art installations, decor items and scandalous paintings - because the Emirates love to surprise. Take at least the exhibition of the eccentric Japanese Yayoi Kusama Seeing Through Light, which the center of modern art on the island of Saadiyat - Manarat Al Saadiyat - even extended for several months due to the endless stream of visitors. The interest in contemporary art is confirmed by the ultramodern project Dubai Design District (read about it on page 38) and the fashionable art space Alserkal Avenue (page 126), located in the industrial zone in Al Quoz in old storage facilities (however, as and laid down self-respecting art incubators).

Dubai has already become one of the centers of the world of fashion and luxury goods - so far, however, only in the field of consumption. Thanks to the above projects, Dubai plans to combine Arab ideas about fashion, art and design with Western trends, which will lead to a fusion of ideas and the birth of something completely new, as has happened more than once. You just have to wait a bit.

If you do not consider yourself admirers of modern paintings and are perplexed by canvases, for example, Mark Rothko, which many collectors of the world are chasing, just do not forget that the popularity of contemporary art is based on only one thing - its incomprehensibility, inconsistency. And our brain loves to exploit ambiguity: since no one understands what is written on the canvas, it means that there are millions of different interpretations. There is no starting point for evaluation, only feelings are involved, which means that people judge these pictures by the most unstable and changing apparatus of judgment given to them by nature. Perhaps because of this work of art, there are such millions - because they reflect the variability of human feelings.

So feel free to go to Design Days Dubai (March 16-20), Art Dubai (March 18-21), and the World Art Dubai Fair (April 8-11), and just let your feelings interpret what they saw. Who knows, maybe you will discover something completely new.

Irina Malkova