Event Item: 00037

'Art & Antiques Dubai'

Fair: 21st Feb 2008 to 24th Feb 2008

Source: http://www.haughton.com

The Haughton Family are delighted to announce the launch of 'Art & Antiques Dubai', an international fair devoted to the fine and decorative arts of all periods, at the Madinat Arena, Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai, from Thursday, February 21st through Sunday, February 24th, 2008.

The Fair will be launched with the support and co-operation of the Government of Dubai's Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM), which oversees tourist development in the emirate and promotes it worldwide as a tourism and commerce hub.

DTCM Director-General, Mr Khalid A. bin Sulayem, said: "Dubai is ideally placed to become a focal point for the most exciting art markets in the world. It offers significant advantages for galleries and collectors from across the world. Dubai is already home to prominent art galleries and the public response to art events is always overwhelming given the cosmopolitan culture. We hope the fair will play a positive role in encouraging art in the emirate and bringing art lovers from different parts of the world to Dubai. The DTCM has been promoting the Emirate's heritage and culture to the outside world.

The Dubai fair is the newest addition to the Haughton family stable of international art and antique events, which include four top-flight fairs in New York and one in London. Director Brian Haughton comments that "the fair is enormously exciting for the development of the international art market and, specifically, for Dubai and the Middle East region. We are grateful to the Government of Dubai for their great support for this project and admire the vision they have shown in positioning Dubai as the leading destination and as an important focus of international commerce."