Townhouse

features

visual art • 14 min read

Paper, transport and bureaucracy in Egypt: An interview with artist Ash Moniz

Sama Waly | Ash Moniz on his Townhouse solo show “In the Anticipation of a Future Need to Know”

30 September 2017

History • 10 min read

I like collecting ugly things: On Amgad Naguib’s Townhouse show

Ifdal Elsaket | A show about the magnitude of what gets left out and the futility of capturing the past's messiness.

8 December 2016

Townhouse • 16 min read

10 Nabrawy Street, in danger again, points to web of interests behind demolitions

Rowan El Shimi | Why are so many owners of historic buildings in Egypt eager to let their buildings fall? Rowan El Shimi

14 July 2016

independent arts • 10 min read

Against helplessness in the arts

Mia Jankowicz | As soon as we give in to the idea that we are nothing but private citizens we’ve given up 99 percent

24 May 2016

building collapses • 28 min read

Five critical days in the life of 10 Nabrawy Street

Alexandra Stock | Attempting to prevent the dissolution of place and memory in a labor against forgetfulness.

27 April 2016

7th CVF FestBeat • 9 min read

FestBeat: Talking about institutions and fluidity at Cairo Video Festival

Nour El Safoury | The openness and flexibility of the festival is appealing, just like other spaces free from ministry

26 December 2015

exhibition reviews • 10 min read

A Worthy Degenerate, a marker of this moment’s caution

Mia Jankowicz | The poor image maintains its vitality through mobility. Not waiting to be seen, as conventionally exhibited

11 December 2015

Ayman Ramadan • 12 min read

The knife-sharpener’s wheel: A review of Ayman Ramadan’s Mere Real Things at Townhouse West

Mia Jankowicz | While we may well have to adapt to the expectations of private supporters, we must decide which compromises

22 October 2015

conversations about the arts • 26 min read

Stagnancy, slowness and voyeurism

Ismail Fayed and Lara El Gibaly | Lost in a world of objects belonging to adults, things that are ornamental and precious and off-limits

11 September 2015

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News

building collapses • 5 min read

Committee issues final decision: Townhouse building to be restored

13 April 2016

building collapses • 5 min read

Eyewitnesses: Destruction of parts of Townhouse building underway

11 April 2016

building collapses • 6 min read

Update: Townhouse building demolition postponed

10 April 2016

Townhouse • 3 min read

Townhouse gallery’s downtown HQ partially collapses

6 April 2016

arts space raids • 5 min read

Update: Staff back to work at Townhouse, awaiting further instructions from municipality

15 February 2016

arts space raids • 6 min read

Townhouse says closure is due to state admin failures, not politics

20 January 2016

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