Arab art comes to the Biennale

Emerging artists from the Emirates aim to show the state gets irony – by mocking its reputation for glitz and growth.

Think about art and the United Arab Emirates and you are perhaps likely to think of grandiose museums mushrooming on Saadiyat Island or of wealthy sheikhs buying European and American art as if it were going out of fashion. But two new exhibitions at the Venice Biennale aim to end the stereotypes and prove that the UAE has homegrown artists the equal of any in the world.

Charoltte Higgins reports from Venice, for The Guardian