TOPIC art history
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art • 40 min read
On Farouk Wahba’s atelier: Chronicle of a mentor and his students
Ali Hussein Al Adawy | Alexandrian artist Farouk Wahba created a contemporary art movement which still echoes today
16 July 2019
art history • 10 min read
Egypt’s 19th-century brush with fine arts
Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani | Thanks to a French sultan, an Albanian soldier and two Egyptian Azharites.
5 May 2016
Abdel Hadi al-Gazzar • 18 min read
Avant-garde art between Egypt and the Soviet Union: Visual comparisons
Ismail Fayed and Sarah Fayed | On the Soviet avant-garde that attempted to put forward new ideas through art before and during Stalin’s
15 October 2015
art history • 22 min read
The lost art of patronage: 5 remarkable Egyptian art patrons
Fatenn Mostafa Kanafani | The history of Egyptian modern art is rich with patrons whose legacy, visionary commitment and generosity
19 June 2015
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