TOPIC visual art
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art exhibitions • 13 min read
Subtle intimacies: On Gypsum Gallery’s “Codes of Coupling”
Mariam Elnozahy | The works on display expose the intimate nature of everyday spaces we mindlessly occupy.
27 February 2020
art exhibitions • 18 min read
Systems of subtleties: Reflections on MASS Alexandria’s latest exhibition
Ash Moniz | The exhibition is MASS Alexandria's first since 2016.
23 January 2020
American University in Cairo • 17 min read
AUC students merge politics and play in graphic design exhibition
Farida Hussein | The program has recently been placing increased emphasis on conceptual thinking.
9 January 2020
art • 40 min read
On Farouk Wahba’s atelier: Chronicle of a mentor and his students
Ali Hussein Al Adawy | Alexandrian artist Farouk Wahba created a contemporary art movement which still echoes today
16 July 2019
cinema • 35 min read
The Wardrobe Man, or how to create a biography from an archive
Lina Attalah | A conversation about Egyptian artist Bassem Yousri's film about a Danish hermit
14 March 2019
exhibition reviews • 17 min read
Huda Lutfi creates a captivating world of silence in AUC show
Sara Elkamel | Instead of the outside world of Cairo, we’re seeing the inside world of Huda.
22 February 2019
exhibition reviews • 17 min read
A history of petro-modernism in the Middle East: Crude
Mai Elwakil | A show featuring contemporary artwork that engages with the oil industry’s vast, messy archive
31 January 2019
visual art • 15 min read
Impatient nostalgia: The far-reaching and the familiar in Basim Magdy’s Gypsum show
Ash Moniz | In this show with his artist father, Basim Magdy looks at the world as if it is already history.
26 January 2019
Cimatheque • 10 min read
Persistently relevant: Atteyat al-Abnoudy
Ahmed Refaat | Ahmed Refaat explores the reasons behind the continued significance of Atteyat al-Abnoudy’s work
18 December 2018
 
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Opinion
Sultan al-Qassemi
Egypt’s art museums: Out of sight, out of mind
Tucked away in the bustling commercial street of Mohamed Pasha Said in the Janaklees district of Alexandria
30 September 2014
Lina Attalah and Mark LeVine
Another 48 hours
Editor’s note: We found it hard to solicit pieces commemorating the January 25 revolution, mainly because
9 February 2014
Shehab Fakhry Ismail
Revolutionizing art
Wandering the streets of downtown Cairo you may have noticed a change in the tone of much of its street
15 October 2013
 
News
art fraud • 4 min read
2 arrested for forging paintings by Mubarak-era culture minister
4 September 2015
Hani El-Masri • 2 min read
Obituary: Egyptian ‘Disney’ artist Hani El-Masri dies at 64
25 August 2015
ek3a • 5 min read
Have an alternative Valentine’s Day in Cairo
13 February 2015
rock music • 3 min read
Teenage Egyptian artist designs new album cover for Pink Floyd
23 September 2014
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