Arts & Culture - Visual Art

New wave of comic books flourishes in Egypt

New books and magazines have revitalised the comic book scene in Egypt this year

British Museum announces new funding to collect contemporary Middle Eastern Art

With three decades of expertise in contemporary Middle Eastern art, one of the world's most important archives of human cultural endeavour seeks to build in the field

Hegazy, Master of Egyptian cartoons

Cartoonist famous for his Court Jester comic strip died on Friday 21 October aged 75

Illuminated Islamic manuscripts and handwritten Qurans displayed at the Morgan Library and Museum

A unique exhibition, "Treasures of Islamic Manuscript Painting," opened 21 October at the Morgan Library and Museum, displaying handwritten Qurans, single illuminated pages, and scores of old manuscripts

Nermine Hammam joins the Dress Code exhibition at Dubai's Art Sawa

Egyptian artist's image from her new Ma'at series appears in a unique collective exhibition of works by celebrated contemporary artists from the Middle East and Arab world

New book says van Gogh's death was killing not suicide

Pulizer Prize-winning art researchers challenge the theory of Van Gogh's suicide in their book Van Gogh: The Life

Muslim comic series aims to break through in US

Comic book titled The 99, inspired by the 99 qualities of God in Islam, tries to spread despite criticism by hard-line Muslims and Americans

Works by Egyptian artists take part in Christie's Modern and Contemporary Arab, Iranian and Turkish Art sale

Two portraits by the father of Egyptian art Mahmoud Said among a strong body of work by Egyptians up for auction at Christie's in Dubai

Czech artists at Gezira Art Centre

Exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Czech artists will open on Wednesday 19 October at the Gezira Art Centre

Pulse exhibition steals the show at Designopolis

Young Egyptian artists seize rare opportunity to display their work in an art scene dominated by established names

'Sculpture' exhibition to open tonight

Egyptian sculptor Gamal Abdel Nasser's 'Sculpture' exhibition to open Sunday 16 October at Zamalek Art Gallery

'See Life in Colours' featured at Cairo Atelier

The See Life in Colours exhibition by Rabab Taha opens today, 16 October, at Atelier Cairo

Greek cartoonists draw the crisis

The ancient philosophers had their golden age; now it's Greek newspaper cartoonists' time to shine. The economic crisis that threatens to go global offers a bonanza for satirists with a talent for the scathing image or caption

Yorgos Papageorgiou features at Mashrabia Art Gallery

Exhibition of work by Greek painter Yorgos Papageorgiou opens on Sunday 16 October in Downtown Cairo

1,001 Things installation at CIC

Collaborative installation project is a chance for Cairo residents to see a part of their home exhibited in CIC, from 30 October

New exhibition will feature up-and-coming Egyptian artists

Pulse, an exhibition of 47 young Egyptian artists, is to open on 15 October

PHOTO GALLERY: Iranian artist's sculpture garden

Naser Hooshmand Vaziri transforms a cave in Lavasan into his art studio

Path of Hope: Art that Moves

Safar Khan gallery launches exciting exhibition of ink drawings by Alyaa Kamel and sculptures by Gamal Meleka

Heroic Africans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The epic exhibition at Metropolitan Museum in New York displays culturally-contemporary art that revives the faces of African heroes from pre-photographic times

EU Delegation launches photo challenge for amateurs

The Delegation of the European Union to Egypt has launched a new challenge for amateur photographers in Egypt – its fourth annual competition for the best thirty photographs

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