Contemporary Emirati artist, Fatma Lootah is an artist who is producing artwork to portray the plight of Gazans alongside the fighting currently taking place between Hamas and Israel which has taken the lives of nearly 1,875 Palestinians and 67 (...)
Following a live show at Makan on 12 June, in which electronic music ricocheted across the performance space's charming worn out walls, musician Rami Abadir talks to Ahram Online about his affair with electronica
The Egyptian Centre for Culture and (...)
'From Architecture to Sculpture,' an exhibition that runs to 10 July at the Mashrabia Gallery, features works by Hesham Abdallah, Hassan Kamel and Ahmed Karaly blending contemporary art with Egypt's rich heritage
The Mashrabia Gallery in Downtown (...)
What is nostalgia? A wistful affection for the past. Yes. But why then is nostalgia painful? Because you remember; yes, but not quite. Because memory is elusive; because the details have worn out, and you are left with a pang, a word, a song, a (...)
The sixth Caravan Exhibition of Visual Art, titled "Amen: A Prayer For The World", opened 17 June at the El-Bab Gallery, located in the grounds of the Cairo Opera House, showcasing 30 life-size sculptures in four different prayer positions.
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Sometimes you walk into a gallery and forget where you are. This is exceptionally and eerily true of Townhouse's final show this season, which opened on 31 May.
A large-scale, multi-channel sound and light installation now occupies the Townhouse (...)
It would not be outrageous to say that the most charismatic of Egypt's presidents to date was Gamal Abdel Nasser. His photos still dwell on Taxi dashboards, living room walls, and on newspaper pages. He emerges in conversations about Egypt's past (...)
The Red Zone Arts Festival — hosted by the Culture Resource's Spring Festival in Cairo — brought two commanding and unsettling theatre performances from Morocco and Norway to the Falaki Theatre stage 8 May
Imagine if the sensation of agony could (...)
From 27 April to 10 May, a room on the Greek Campus of the American University in Cairo (AUC) is transformed into a classroom where a crime scene is waiting to happen.
'Afashtak,' adapted by theatre director Ahmed El-Alfy from Barrie Keeffe's (...)
As another exhibition at Gypsum — one of Cairo's most promising new contemporary art spaces — draws to a close this week, prominent painter Adel El-Siwi and exhibiting artist Mahmoud Khaled held a conversation about the show
On Tuesday, 29 April, (...)
Hassan Khan's Taraban,performed at Falaki Theatre on Saturday 26 April, drew the curtain on his month-long Cairo showcase of two decades of creativity. The concert placed songs by Sheikh Yousef El-Manyalawy (1847-1911) in a new, contemporary (...)
Al-Khoroug Lel-Nahar(Coming Forth By Day) represents an example of a collaborative and organic film that departs from the conventions of contemporary Egyptian cinema. It reflects the passion of an emerging generation of filmmakers and actors (...)
It is always changing.
It has order.
It doesn't have a specific place.
Its boundaries are not fixed.
It affects other things.
It may be accessible but go unnoticed.
Part of it may also be part of something else.
Some of it is familiar.
Some of it is (...)
Following a performance at the Qasr Al-Nil Theatre that highlighted D-CAF's music programme, Lebanese musician Yasmine Hamdan speaks to Ahram Online about collaboration, magnetism, and her Instagram photos
As part of the Downtown Contemporary Art (...)
From 30 March to 26 April, four halls in a downtown Cairo alley will host artworks by contemporary Egyptian artist, musician, and writer Hassan Khan, which extend from the1990s up to the present.
Khan's diverse oeuvre features performance and (...)
"It was obvious nothing would be won. They decided never to fight. They planned their future just like they memorised their past. And swore to reenact everything down to the nose itch. They dug up the decaying bones of their ancestors and (...)
International contemporary art fair Art Dubai has this year included exhibitions showcasing twentieth century art from the Middle East and South Asia, including Egyptian artists Hamed Abdalla and Adam Henein
"History tells us that art alone is (...)
More than 200 artworks, including sculptures, photographs, drawings, video and site specific installations by artist Susan Hefuna, occupy the Sharjah Art Foundation's historic Beit Al-Serkal
Time passes. The artist records it. In her latest solo (...)
More than 70 journalists and guests attended the Art Dubai press conference that took place earlier today at Madinat Jumeirah, ahead of the fair's opening on Wednesday 19 March.
Fair director Antonia Carver believes that “over the years, Art Dubai (...)
To say that Dubai is the contemporary art capital of the Middle East has become rather superfluous. But for four days in March, one cannot ignore the city's charismatic, lavish hospitality to compelling artwork emerging from across the globe.
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In parallel with the seventh annual March Meeting, a public symposium held at the Sharjah Art Foundation as a launching pad for the 12th Sharjah Biennale, Wael Shawky's solo show opens at the SAF's Art Spaces
Egyptian artist Wael Shawky's solo show, (...)
Unveiling a collection of around 15 abstract pieces painted in oils and acrylics over the past two years, Hassabo strives to create ripples in Cairo's contemporary art scene with her inaugural show,Waves of Distortion.This is the artist's first solo (...)
In her latest solo exhibition 'Cinderella Tales' which opened 16 Feb at Mashrabia Gallery, Egyptian artist Shayma Kamel tackles disparities between representation and reality in contemporary Egyptian society
In mixed media canvases hanging across (...)
Wael Shawky, one of Egypt's and the Arab world's most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists, made a quick appearance in Cairo on Saturday 8 February to present his video Al-Araba Al-Madfuna at Beirut art space.
One of the 43-year-old (...)
An exhibition featuring the works of seven female Egyptian artists opened 5 February at Al-Hanager Arts Centre, located within the Cairo Opera House grounds, kicking off the second Independent Arts Festival.
Curated by Mohamed Abla, the exhibition (...)