Condé Nast Traveler's guide to art in Dubai starts its gallery tour in DIFC with Tabari, and uses a photograph of an opening at the gallery as its lead image.
Alessia Armenise's guide was published on 29 November 2017 in New York, the morning of 30 November in Dubai. She notes that attention had largely turned to Abu Dhabi's new Louvre and the forthcoming Guggenheim, but argues that Dubai had been at the centre of the region's contemporary art scene for decades, with Art Dubai, founded in 2007, bringing more than 90 galleries from 40 countries each year. The permanent galleries, she writes, are where the city's creative life shows itself, and a tour of them makes a good day out.
The tour begins in DIFC, where Tabari is described as known for exhibiting both established and emerging artists, naming the Jordanian calligrapher Nassar Mansour and the Moroccan painter Hiba Khamlichi. The guide goes on to XVA Gallery in Al Fahidi, The Third Line in Al Quoz and The Empty Quarter, before returning to DIFC for Cuadro Fine Art Gallery.
The article appeared weeks after the gallery reopened under the name Tabari in the autumn of 2017, and its lead photograph, credited to the gallery, shows a full house in front of the new name on the wall in Gate Village.