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Nov 26, 2022

Art Travelling in SF: Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera’s America July 16, 2022-January 3, 2023 SFMOMA Floor 4 So, I went to San Francisco and one of the highlights — out of many — was being able to see a massive retrospective of Diego Rivera's American works at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I really liked…

Diego Rivera

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Art Travelling in SF: Diego Rivera
Art Travelling in SF: Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera

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Oct 20, 2022

Autumnal Grace: Nazir Tanbouli’s Golden Forest

“At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in no way inferior to the smell of the sea, bitter where it borders on taste, and more honeysweet where you feel it touching the first…

Art

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Autumnal Grace: Nazir Tanbouli’s Golden Forest
Autumnal Grace: Nazir Tanbouli’s Golden Forest
Art

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Feb 19, 2022

Submerged and sublime: Nazir Tanbouli’s underwater world

exhibition at Picasso Gallery Zamalek Cairo, February 2022 “That wasn’t a true dream, but an ancient organic memory millions of years old. The innate releasing mechanisms laid down in your cytoplasm have been awakened. The expanding sun and rising temperatures are driving you back down to the spinal levels into…

Art

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Submerged and sublime: Nazir Tanbouli’s underwater world
Submerged and sublime: Nazir Tanbouli’s underwater world
Art

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Feb 19, 2022

Submerged and sublime: Nazir Tanbouli’s underwater world

“That wasn’t a true dream, but an ancient organic memory millions of years old. The innate releasing mechanisms laid down in your cytoplasm have been awakened. The expanding sun and rising temperatures are driving you back down to the spinal levels into the drowned seas of the lowest layers of…

Art

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Submerged and sublime: Nazir Tanbouli’s underwater world
Submerged and sublime: Nazir Tanbouli’s underwater world
Art

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Mar 19, 2021

Tarek Elleissy: Visual Language

It starts with a letter or a word, and moves onward from there. From one letter’s curve, whole worlds are created.

Calligraphy

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Tarek Elleissy: Visual Language
Tarek Elleissy: Visual Language
Calligraphy

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Feb 18, 2021

The Art Traveller in Cairo: Dawn of a New Day / Nazir Tanbouli

British Egyptian artist Nazir Tanbouli ushered in 2021 with a solo show of paintings at Cairo’s Picasso gallery. Since last summer, while the majority of us languished in corona anxiety, Tanbouli sealed himself in the studio with a lot of large blank canvases and began to imagine his new collection…

Egypt

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The Art Traveller in Cairo: Dawn of a New Day / Nazir Tanbouli
The Art Traveller in Cairo: Dawn of a New Day / Nazir Tanbouli
Egypt

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Jan 29, 2021

Art travelling: Life in Maadi, Cairo

I have found myself spending the winter in Egypt in a suburb of Cairo, called Maadi, and I wanted to write something about this place. I did not really pick it; I was offered a place to stay here and I accepted. But — together with my travels around the…

Egypt

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Art travelling: Life in Maadi, Cairo
Art travelling: Life in Maadi, Cairo
Egypt

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Jan 29, 2021

Art Travelling: Souad Mardam Bey at the Zamalek Gallery, Cairo

Introduction: Currently based in Cairo, exploring the city’s contemporary art scene. Syrian-born Cairo-based artist Souad Mardam Bey’s exhibition is titled “I Lost the Key” and the word “key” is evocative in the current times — a key in music, a key to a door (the door to where?) — and…

Painting

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Art Travelling: Souad Mardam Bey at the Zamalek Gallery, Cairo
Art Travelling: Souad Mardam Bey at the Zamalek Gallery, Cairo
Painting

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Jan 20, 2021

Art travelling: Passive Constructions, Gallery Misr, Cairo

Passive Constructions, an exhibition by Islam Zaher Currently based in Cairo, Egypt and exploring Cairo’s contemporary art scene. Although painting and sculpture are normally spoken about as different art media, they intersect in fascinating ways. One thinks for example of Giorgio de Chirico’s silent piazzas with their haunting monuments. Or the relationship between Henry Moore’s remarkable drawings of the London Tube during the Blitz in relation to his…

Art

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Art travelling: Passive Constructions, Gallery Misr, Cairo
Art travelling: Passive Constructions, Gallery Misr, Cairo
Art

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Aug 29, 2020

How artists and filmmakers depict pre-history in paintings and movies

Artists and filmmakers depict pre-history: the art of imagining the unimaginably real part of the series ‘A History of the World in 16 paintings, and the films they inspired’ Here I feature Thomas Cole’s The Savage State Gillian McIver Thomas Cole’s The Savage State, The Clan of the Cave Bear and Quest for Fire How to artists and filmmakers depict pre-history? You might be surprised…

Arthistory

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How artists and filmmakers depict pre-history in paintings and movies
How artists and filmmakers depict pre-history in paintings and movies
Arthistory

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