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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
9/12/2023 1:35:18 PM
A Dutch art detective has recovered a precious Vincent van Gogh painting that was stolen from a museum in a daring midnight heist during the coronavirus lockdown three-and-a-half years ago, police said Tuesday.
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Arts & Culture
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Music
9/6/2023 3:04:26 PM
Thousands of items belonging to the charismatic Queen frontman Freddie Mercury, from manuscripts of his band's biggest hits to furniture, paintings and knick-knacks are on auction in London from Wednesday.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
6/30/2023 12:24:59 PM
Many masterpieces of Iraqi painting were looted or destroyed during the years of war, but now the country's artistic heritage faces another threat: rampant counterfeiting and illicit trafficking.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/29/2023 9:20:00 AM
A duo exhibition at the Downtown Access Gallery of paintings and drawings by Fatma Abodoma and Agnes Michalczyk reflect on women’s work, inviting the viewer to contemplate the inner world women occupy and the psychological suffering they go through.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
5/27/2023 2:49:07 PM
Lebanon’s Sursock Museum has reopened to the public, three years after a deadly explosion in Beirut's port — set off by tons of improperly stored chemicals — reduced many of its treasured paintings and collections to ashes.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
5/21/2023 12:40:31 PM
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina hosted an art exhibition titled "Contemporary Inscriptions," which came to a close on May 21st. The exhibition featured 24 high-end works of art that combined fine art with the aesthetics of crafts. It showcased calligraphic paintings, ceramic works, and marble formations that highlighted artistic visions varying between modernity and originality, between contemporary and heritage preservation, and development.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Exhibitions
2/7/2023 7:25:54 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Exhibitions
1/31/2023 8:36:30 PM
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Egypt
1/5/2023 7:41:00 PM
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Life & Style
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City Lights
12/13/2022 8:00:13 PM
At Al Horriya Park in Cairo, Ambassador of India Ajit Guptih inaugurated the 26th edition of the annual “Glimpses of India” painting competition organised by the Embassy of India in Cairo, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, from 12 to 14 December in Cairo as well as a number of Egypt's governorates.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
11/11/2022 6:23:31 PM
Norwegian police said two climate activists tried in vain Friday to glue themselves to Edvard Munch’s 1893 masterpiece “The Scream” at an Oslo museum and no harm was reported to the painting of a waif-like figure appearing to scream.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
11/8/2022 8:43:58 PM
Rania Khallaf talks to artist Mohamed Abdel-Hadi about his recent exhibition at the Al-Bab Gallery in Cairo
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
11/5/2022 6:21:40 PM
Two climate activists on Saturday each glued a hand to the frames of two paintings by Spanish master Francisco Goya at the Prado museum in Madrid, police said.
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Life & Style
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City Lights
11/3/2022 5:29:23 PM
The Russian Cultural Centre in Cairo is organising an exhibition of paintings entitled "Peter the Great" to commemorate the 350th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian emperor Peter the Great and to depict the beauty of the city of St. Petersburg, which was named after apostle Saint Peter.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
10/31/2022 7:41:33 PM
A young woman tried to throw soup at a painting at the world-famous Musee d'Orsay in Paris this week, the museum confirmed Sunday, in a similar attack to others by climate activists in Europe.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/29/2022 12:04:26 PM
Art world professionals have slammed recent attacks on famous paintings by climate protesters as "counterproductive" and dangerous acts of vandalism.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/27/2022 5:52:31 PM
Dutch police arrested three people after climate activists targeted Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" at the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague on Thursday.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Exhibitions
10/25/2022 7:39:10 PM
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COP27
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Climate change
10/23/2022 7:50:53 PM
Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction on Sunday, and it was unclear whether the demonstration caused long-term damage to the artwork.
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Arts & Culture
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Visual Art
10/15/2022 4:31:15 PM
Two environmental protesters appeared in a UK court Saturday after throwing tomato soup over one of Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings at London's National Gallery.
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