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This panel explores the uncovered and hidden archeological treasures beneath the UAE, led by two expert speakers.

Charting Francis Bacon’s career through more than 50 of the artist’s paintings, the exhibition explores Bacon’s engagement with portraiture from the late 1940s, with a focus on self-portraits and images of key sitters made from the early 1950s onwards, including lovers Peter Lacy, George Dyer and John Edwards and friends Isabel Rawsthorne, Henrietta Moraes, Lucian Freud and Muriel Belcher.

Following five years of intensive research and the re-stretching of the painting, a team of eight Rijksmuseum conservators started removing the varnish from "The Night Watch". This marks the beginning of the second phase of Operation Night Watch, the biggest ever research and restoration project devoted to this masterpiece by Rembrandt. Removing the old varnish will enable us to preserve the painting for future generations. Visitors are able to follow the process live in the Night Watch Gallery, where the restoration work is being carried out with microscopic precision in the see-through glass chamber.

The exhibition offers an overall picture of all the planet’s perspectives – both from the scientific and from the cultural and historical points of view

Curators and Researchers
Kathy Halbreich (NY), Yukie Kamiya (NY), and Pi Li (Hong Kong) will be on site