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FIVE years ago the star exhibit at the Dubai art fair was a gold motorbike.

ONE of the paintings unveiled during Dubai Art Week, which finishes this weekend, has attracted more than the usual amount of attention.

In March, one of Ramin's works was censored from the Dubai Art Fair, apparently so as not to offend the Iranian ambassador.

Last month, two paintings inspired by the Arab Spring were removed from the annual Dubai Art Fair, deemed by the Dubai authorities to be unacceptable.

All the work from Saudi Arabia, including Ms Alem's, found buyers.With a 500% increase in sales of Middle Eastern art over the last five years, according to Christie's, an auction house with salerooms in Dubai, art might offer an avenue of free expression, even a career, for many women in the Gulf.

Two contentious art works about the Arab Spring removed from the annual Dubai Art festival, and the devil visits Moscow in a London stage play - these stories and more in this week's arts news.

The resulting diversity and growing competition among gallery owners has deepened Dubai's art market, as has the emerging dichotomy between D.I.F.C.'s elite art scene and Al Quoz's underground hub.

Dubai's art scene is booming, even if the city is not.

"There has always been a legacy of culture, but in the last decade there's been a new phase of international interest in the region, resulting in an organic growth of Dubai's art calendar," she said.

The space can also be rented out for private or corporate events for a fee — a profitable activity because of The Shelter's location within Dubai's art hub.

Way back in 1976 a group of expatriate women established the Dubai International Art Centre, perhaps the first of its kind in the UAE, which continues to be supported by the private sector.