Townhouse

features

obituaries • 24 min read

In loving memory of Dalia Suleiman: Cultural worker, friend and cat lover

“So much of what the culture scene is today was built through the efforts of people like her.”

23 August 2020

contemporary art • 8 min read

Hijacking the contemporary

Ismail Fayed | Ismail Fayed reflects on Egyptian artist Imane Ibrahim’s first solo show at Townhouse

7 December 2018

arts funding • 21 min read

Townhouse dips into the archive on its 20th anniversary: But where are the stories?

Sara Elkamel | Sara ElKamel speaks with Townhouse's Mariam al-Nozahy about the gallery’s 20-year retrospective

11 September 2018

exhibition reviews • 10 min read

Can we converse with buildings?

Mai Elwakil | A review of Malak Yacout’s Dialogue with 10 Nabrawy

23 June 2018

contemporary art • 22 min read

Defying disappearance: The return of Townhouse

Lina Attalah | Lina Attalah speaks to Townhouse director William Wells about the gallery's restoration and future

22 June 2018

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

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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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