Galleries from the UAE are proud of their prominence at Frieze this year, The National reports. With artists like Farhad Moshiri doing very well in the auctions and getting lots of attention for galleries like Third Line, whose director is Claudia Cellini, there’s a hope that the Gulf can break out of being an emerging market and become a real player in the art world:

“In terms of global recognition our presence at Frieze is very important,” Cellini added. “We want to be taken seriously as an international gallery and not as a gallery from the Middle East that’s ‘sort of exotic’. Our artists deserve to be internationally recognised.” Continue Reading