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Global Art ForumThe tenth edition of the Global Art Forum, the acclaimed talks programme that accompanies Art Dubai, launched on 16 March (until 18 March). This year’s theme, The Future Was, focuses on how cultural figures such as artists and writers have envisaged and shaped the future. The maverick Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli took part in the first debate, jousting verbally with the Italian curator Germano Celant and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of London’s Serpentine