ArteNews & Events

  • Next in the Arab Film Series online: Arab World Shorts Program @ 2pm EDT May 2!

    Posted: Apr 29, 2020

    Join us for the next screening in the Arab Film Series online! ArteEast partnered with the Arab American National Museum, the Arab Film and Media Institute, and Cinetopia Film Festival, to bring together a wide range of new and classic films by Arab and Arab American filmmakers. Mark your calendars for May 2nd @ 2pm EDT for the Arab World Shorts Program! RSVP to receive streaming link http://arabamericanmuseum.org/arab-film-series 

  • Arab Film Series online in partnership with AANM, Arab Film and Media Institute, and Cinetopia Festival

    Posted: Apr 20, 2020

    Tune in for free, exclusive screenings followed by chat talkbacks. RSVP today to receive streaming links by email a few hours before each screening.

  • Symposium: Taking Shape: New Perspectives on Arab Abstraction
    Symposium: Taking Shape: New Perspectives on Arab Abstraction

    Posted: Feb 25, 2020

    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 with CHRI presents an artist-led tour of A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists
    ArteEast with CHRI presents an artist-led tour of A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists

    Posted: Nov 7, 2019

    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 […]

  • Panel discussion: “A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists”
    Panel discussion: “A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists”

    Posted: Sep 25, 2019

    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

  • ArteEast and apexart present: A Guided Tour by the Artists in Their Absence
    ArteEast and apexart present: A Guided Tour by the Artists in Their Absence

    Posted: Jul 2, 2019

    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
    ArteEast Spring Benefit

    Posted: Mar 16, 2019

    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 […]

  • 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
    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

    Posted: Jan 17, 2019

    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)

  • Syrian Film Program at Queens Museum, in association with AFI’s Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement, & the Ban exhibition
    Syrian Film Program at Queens Museum, in association with AFI’s Executive (Dis)Order: Art, Displacement, & the Ban exhibition

    Posted: Dec 6, 2018

    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 […]

  • PANEL DISCUSSION: CAIRO STORIES: IDEOLOGICAL, CULTURAL & ECONOMIC ISSUES FACING WOMEN IN EGYPT TODAY
    PANEL DISCUSSION: CAIRO STORIES: IDEOLOGICAL, CULTURAL & ECONOMIC ISSUES FACING WOMEN IN EGYPT TODAY

    Posted: Sep 28, 2018

    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)