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Nadine Abdel Ghaffar, founder and director of Art d’Egypte, had good intentions when she launched an itinerant art exhibition of public art commissions in downtown Cairo in 2017. Calling the show “a ...

Their faces draw you in — big, expressive eyes staring out as if they’ve been frozen in the act of remembering something important. Painted on wooden panels and placed over the faces of mummified ...

Mysterious frescoes come to life.

The style of ancient Egyptian art is transcendently clear, something eight-year-olds can recognize in an instant. Its consistency and codification is one of the most epic visual journeys in all art, ...

Black artists have long claimed ancient Egypt as their own. Now they’re telling their stories in person on the museum’s floor. By Aruna D’Souza The artist Lorraine O’Grady once wrote of her ...

With the Grand Egyptian Museum open and Alexandria’s biennial returning, Egypt is positioning itself as a regional cultural force. But its most compelling artistic energy comes from independent voices ...

NEW YORK — One of New York City’s most prominent art museums this month unveiled its biggest ancient Egypt exhibition in more than a decade, focusing on gods and deities from the period. “Divine Egypt ...

In 1913, W.E.B. Du Bois staged a giant pageant called “The Star of Ethiopia” in New York, with a thousand elaborately costumed performers and detailed sets, including an Egyptian temple. Over the next ...