art

In recent weeks, Alexandria’s corniche has been the site of a remarkable artistic phenomenon. Young activists have used graffiti to…

On 25 May 2006, Angola launched the Icarus 13, the world’s first space mission to the sun. For two years,…

Over the past weeks, a lot of Cairo's ordinary objects have been transformed by their participation in the revolution. Street…

Eighty-seven-year-old Herbert Vogel and his wife Dorothy are a retired post office clerk and librarian with a massive collection of…

A number of intellectuals and artists have expressed their opposition to the appointment of Mohamed Abdel Moneim al-Sawy, founder of…

Although art is generally perceived as an exclusive discipline with limited outreach, Egyptian curator Sarah Rifky argues that the boundaries…

Ahmed Basiony, a Cairo-born artist, experimental musician and teacher in his early thirties, was killed while participating in the first…

The past two weeks have seen Cairo’s Tahrir Square filled by mass protests and scarred by violence. Much of the…

Documenta, the brainchild of German painter Arnold Bode, is a mega contemporary art exhibition held in Kassel, Germany every five…

– What do you do, again? Sorry, I never seem to get it right. – I am a curator. –…