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Hanoi · Vietnam

EVA 2: The Alien Self Opens in Hanoi, Staging AI as Both Collaborator and Question

Four young Vietnamese artists take over more than 860 square metres at L'Art Gallery, structuring the show around the four stages of how AI processes human data — recognition, classification, encoding, regeneration.

EVA 2: The Alien Self, a contemporary art exhibition exploring the relationship between human identity and artificial intelligence, opened on 17 July at L'Art Gallery in Hanoi's Lotte Mall West Lake. Structured around four stages that mirror how AI processes human data, the show runs until 25 July as part of Hanoi Creative Design Festival 2026.

Star Wars Filming Locations in Tunisia: The Complete Tatooine Travel Guide

Every Star Wars filming location in Tunisia, from the sand-swept Mos Espa set to the cave hotel where Luke grew up — with maps, tips and a 3-to-7-day route.

Tunisia is the real Tatooine. George Lucas filmed here across five films, and most of the locations still stand. Here's every major Star Wars site — Mos Espa, Matmata, the Tataouine ksour, Djerba — plus how to link them into one desert trip.

Bangkok · Thailand

Mona's Bangkok Ambition: Tasmanian Private Museum Plans Major Southeast Asian Outpost

Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art partners with Thai developer to create riverside cultural destination

The Museum of Old and New Art announces a 15-year partnership with Asset World Corporation to build Mona Bangkok, a new waterfront museum on the Chao Phraya River scheduled to open in 2029.

Dubai · United Arab Emirates

The Pioneers of Emirati Art: Hassan Sharif and After

How Hassan Sharif and the artists known as "the Five" built conceptual art in the UAE from nothing

Before the Louvre came to Abu Dhabi and Alserkal filled with galleries, a small group of artists made conceptual art in the UAE with almost no audience and a great deal of ridicule. This is the story of Hassan Sharif and the pioneers who built a scene from nothing — and why their work still anchors Emirati art today.

Marrakech · Morocco

Filmed, but Not Recorded: The Arab World’s Missing Film Locations

Wikidata knows Gladiator was filmed in Morocco. It doesn’t know where.

Ouarzazate is the second most filmed place in the Middle East and North Africa, yet 25 of its 27 productions are recorded only in Wikipedia prose. We compared filming records worldwide and found that in the Arab world, Wikidata usually knows the country but not the place.

Istanbul · Turkey

Seventy Thousand Solomons: The Empire That Performed a Legend

A demon catalogue in the conqueror's library, a sixteenth-century text where kingship is an office held seventy thousand times, and the columns a sultan dragged across three provinces to prove he held it.

Mehmed II kept a Greek catalogue of demons in his library at Topkapı. Seventy years later a sultan named for a prophet was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem and hauling Roman columns out of Egypt and the Lebanon into a mosque above the Golden Horn. In between, Ottoman writers turned Solomon from a warning into a job — and the empire applied for it in stone.