Podcast
Egyptian Surrealism and the Quest to Define Modern Art in Egypt
Hyperallergic travels to Cairo to see one among a new wave of exhibitions that are reintroducing Egyptian modern art to a wider audience.
Egypt
Art
A Sprawling Tapestry’s Surreal Visions of Egypt
WASHINGTON, DC — In 2011, the Egyptian-Lebanese artist Lara Baladi began her ongoing project Vox Populi, Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, her attempt to archive the flood of documentation that emerged out of the events of Tahrir Square and its aftermath.
News
A 5,000-Year-Old Linen Dress Is the World's Oldest Woven Garment
An over-5,000-year-old linen dress was recently confirmed as the world's oldest woven garment.
Art
Garments from the Graves of Late Antiquity
Over 50 examples of textile garments and furnishings are on view in Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.
News
Looters Kill Two Guards at Ancient Egyptian Necropolis
Two guards at the Dayr al-Barsha archaeological site in Middle Egypt were killed by looters during a foiled robbery this weekend.
Art
Light Projections Bring Color and Lost Glory to the Temple of Dendur
We recognize the Temple of Dendur today as a monochromatic sandstone structure, but its walls, like those of most ancient Egyptian temples, were originally painted bright colors.
In Brief
Egypt Bans Teen Who Climbed and Took Photos Atop the Great Pyramid of Giza
One teenager's daredevil stunt to procure aerial photographs and video of the Egyptian desert has earned him a lifelong ban from the country.
News
Ancient Egyptian Shrines, Once Thought Destroyed, Reveal Six New Statues
A team of archaeologists in Egypt has discovered six rock cut statues inside two adjoining shrines, previously believed to be completely destroyed by an earthquake that shook the region centuries ago.
Art
Documenting the Vanishing Hermitages of the Egyptian Desert
Constructed from stacked rocks and carved into remote mountainsides, the desert hermitages of Egypt and Sudan are barely perceptible in the arid landscape.
Art
From Pyramids to Ostriches, Stereoscopic Views of Late-19th-Century Egypt
In the late 19th century, many publishing companies produced stereoscopic photographs as a way to commercialize images of foreign lands as people began to travel more frequently and as tourism as an industry boomed.
News
British Scientists Find Trove of Animal Mummies with No Bones
It sounds like the beginnings of a detective tale: researchers in the UK recently scanned 300 animal mummies from Egypt only to discover that a full third held no bodies.
Interview
Images of War, Re-Photographed and Transformed
Re-photographing (or re-purposing) the news media began for me as a healing ritual, a kind of laying-on-of-hands, to purge my despair over news events around the world.