Join us a for an afternoon symposium Taking Shape: New Perspectives on Arab Abstraction Friday, March 13, 1:00–5:00 pm Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center (enter at 32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place for wheelchair access) Free of charge, no reservations, seating is limited. Photo ID required for entrance to NYU buildings. Until the late 1960s, […]
ArteEast, in association with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), invite you to join us for an artist-led tour of A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists, curated by renowned visual artist Shirin Neshat Featuring nearly 100 works by 13 contemporary Iranian women artists including Ala Dehghan, Afruz […]
ArteEast, along with the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) and NYU's Grey Art Gallery Invite you to join us for a conversation with artists featured in the upcoming CHRI exhibition "A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists," moderated by the show's curator Shirin Neshat. Monday, November 4, 6:30-8pm Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center 32 Waverly Place, NYU
For this public event, artists from the "Occupational Hazards" exhibition have added their voices to the gallery space. While their works are here, for many of the artists, travel to the United States is severely challenged or prohibited--whether by cost, visa regulations, or current travel bans. Join apexart and ArteEast on a guided tour of Occupational Hazards presented by the artists in their absence: incorporating the stories behind the works and experiences and challenges of artists working in the Middle East today, in their own words.
ARTEEAST SPRING BENEFIT Tuesday, May 14, 2019 6:30 PM at Postmasters Gallery 54 Franklin Street, New York, NY Join us for a festive evening of mezze and drinks and live music! Featuring a special performance by Nadah El Shazly and the New York debut of Noma Omran BENEFIT HOST COMMITTEE* Omar Berrada Nathaniel Bowditch and […]
ArteEast and the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies present: Poets, Painters, Rebels, Spies: On Art and the (A)political in Beirut A joint book launch and conversation with Robyn Creswell and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie Feb 12 @ 6pm Reception to follow 255 Sullivan St (at Washington Square South)
Join us for a special film program organized by ArteEast, featuring two Syrian films – one animated short and a feature film in association with Artistic Freedom Initiative’s Community Partnership Exhibtion: Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement, & the Ban The screenings will be held on December 16th and repeated on January 19th, both days at 3 […]
October 16, 6:30 pm, NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, 255 Sullivan Street How are women in today’s Egypt navigating the structures of the nation state: social systems, economic responsibility, and familial ties in a changing urban landscape? This panel brings together leading journalists, urban scholars, and artists to discuss the current political and social climate in Cairo. Speakers: Lina Attalah, Publisher of Mada Masr Judith Barry, Artist, Professor | Director of the ACT program at MIT Mona El-Naggar,The New York Times, Senior Producer, International Video Omnia Khalil, PhD student, Anthropology, City University of New York (CUNY), Co-founder of 10 Tooba| Applied Research on the Built Environment (Cairo)
Join us Tuesday, August 7, 7pm at UnionDocs for an evening with Egyptian filmmaker Aida ElKashef, in conversation with Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa Division. The evening will feature a sneak preview of Aida ElKashef’s The Day I Ate The Fish, the feature documentary in-progress revisits stories of women behind bars in Egypt’s infamous women’s prison, Al Qanater, convicted of murdering their husbands. The evening will include a screening of ElKashef’s activist video work with Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment (OpAntiSH), active in Egypt during the revolution to combat sexual harrassment and sexual assaults of female protestors in Tahrir Square.
Join us on Wednesday, June 27 at 7pm for the culminating evening in this season’s ArteEast series Films, Facts, and Fiction to be held at e-flux. The evening features a selection of short films by Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind, Ghassan Salhab and Mohamed Soueid, Monira al-Qadiri, and Ayman Nahle, and a music video coda by Meriem Bennani. Sampling an array of genres from science-fiction to the essay film, documentary détournement, and the music video, the five works, each in their own way, perform a subtle queering of place—political or intimate, made up or registered. Some are funny, and all are touching.
