A new home for Arab art: Sharjah's Barjeel museum to open in 2028

“A new home for Arab art: Sharjah's Barjeel museum to open in 2028”

What makes a great neighbour? Good manners are useful. Prying is best avoided. Being interesting without insisting upon it is better still. But perhaps the most intriguing ones are those who don’t reveal themselves all at once. The question has been on my mind since I learnt that the Barjeel Art Foundation’s collection, comprising more than 2,000 works of modern and contemporary art from the Arab world, is finally getting a museum of its own in Sharjah in early 2028. A great many artworks,…