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The northern half of Gezira island, sitting in the Nile between the two halves of the city — leafy streets, early twentieth-century apartment buildings, and more than thirty galleries and art spaces within walking distance of each other. Established rooms, experimental spaces and new ones opening in ground-floor flats. You can spend a whole afternoon here without getting into a car.
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Major retrospective reconstructs ephemeral works across symbolic landscapes
Tate Modern's comprehensive survey examines Mendieta's earth-body works through the lens of ancient mark-making traditions, featuring recreated installations and 150 pieces.
Photographer and filmmaker says departure was pre-planned, as succession process begins ahead of July AGM
Misan Harriman will leave his role as chair of London's Southbank Centre after two terms, with the venue confirming succession planning is already underway.
CHERUBY's summer programme treats exhibitions, residencies and pedagogy as sites of para-content and collective meaning-making
Running from June to August 2026, CHERUBY's summer activation brings together an exhibition, artists-in-residence and a nomadic theatre school to explore how cultural value emerges through circulation, participation and collective making.
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.
The book that taught Europe to picture the East arrived with no pictures at all. Three centuries of illustrators — Dutch, Egyptian, Persian, French, German, Iraqi — each gave it a face, and every face was a self-portrait.
Open Galland's Thousand and One Nights, the edition that conquered Europe, and there is nothing to look at: no genie, no lamp, not one illustration. The most visually imagined book in the world began blind — and because its text was never fixed either, no picture of it could ever be a copy.
Egypt built a museum to tell the story of an entire civilisation — seven thousand years of it, from flint tools to the present. The public knows it for one thing: the room where twenty dead kings lie in the dark.
In a black, hushed hall beneath the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo lie the mummified bodies of Ramesses II, Hatshepsut, and eighteen other rulers of the New Kingdom — carried here in 2021 in a televised parade watched around the world.
