ArteNews & Events

  • ArteEast Presents the 2017 Online Benefit Auction on Al Bahie
    ArteEast Presents the 2017 Online Benefit Auction on Al Bahie

    Posted: Dec 8, 2017

    ArteEast is pleased to announce the launch of our 2017 online benefit auction, hosted on the Al Bahie platform. The auction, featuring 29 works of art by artists from the Middle East and North Africa and their diasporas, will provide major support to ArteEast’s programs to support contemporary creative expression in the MENA region, including […]

  • ArteEast Announces Collaboration with Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) Online Journal:  FIELD REVIEW and FIELD MEETING Forum Take 5
    ArteEast Announces Collaboration with Asia Contemporary Art Week (ACAW) Online Journal: FIELD REVIEW and FIELD MEETING Forum Take 5

    Posted: Oct 7, 2017

    ArteEast, in its capacity as a partner of Asia Contemporary Art Week, is pleased to announce two collaborations as part of this year’s ACAW platform, now in its 12th edition. Curated and edited in its second iteration by Osman Can Yerebakan as a publication of ArteEast’s Quarterly journal, Asia Contemporary Art Week’s online journal FIELD […]

  • ArteEast Co-Hosts: UAE Author’s Talk with Aysha al Naqbi
    ArteEast Co-Hosts: UAE Author’s Talk with Aysha al Naqbi

    Posted: Jul 29, 2017

    ArteEast is pleased to co-host, together with the Consulate of the United Arab Emirates in New York City, an Authors Talk for 14-year-old Emirati author, Aysha Al Naqbi – the youngest published author from the U.A.E.  Moderated by Bill Bragin, Executive Artistic Director of The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi and leading figure in the arts in […]

  • ArteHub: Artist Talk with Rashwan Abdelbaki
    ArteHub: Artist Talk with Rashwan Abdelbaki

    Posted: Mar 6, 2017

    Join us for an exploration of APF Fellow and ArteEast Artist-in-Residence Rashwan Abdelbaki's work at the Manhattan Graphics Center. Rashwan is a Syrian-born multi-media artist specializing in ‎painting, etching, ‎and engraving.This event is free, and open to the public. Rashwan is a Syrian-born multi-media artist specializing in ‎painting, etching, ‎and engraving.This event is free, and open to the public.

  • Sundaram Tagore Gallery Panel Discussion
    Sundaram Tagore Gallery Panel Discussion

    Posted: Feb 28, 2017

    The panel discussion will be led by Sumeshwar Sharma, curator at Clark House Initiative, Mumbai, and will include Iraqi artists Wafaa Bilal and Ayad Alkadhi and Syrian artist, AFP Fellow and ArteEast Artist in Residence Rashwan Abdelbaki.

  • ArteHub: Artist Talk with Rashwan Abdelbaki
    ArteHub: Artist Talk with Rashwan Abdelbaki

    Posted: Feb 22, 2017

    Join us Thursday, March 2nd at the Metropolitan College of New York for a talk with ArteEast Artist-in-Resident Rushwan Abdelbaki.

  • ArteHub Presents: Artist Talk with Omar Mismar
    ArteHub Presents: Artist Talk with Omar Mismar

    Posted: Dec 1, 2016

    Saturday, December 3rd 7:00-9:00 p.m Local Project 11-27 44th Rd Long Island City, NY 11101 Omar Mismar is a Lebanese artist and a fellow in the 2016-17 Whitney ISP. Join us for a festive evening with refreshments, good company, and an exploration of Omar’s work, starting with early works that trace the artist’s negotiation of sexual […]

  • ArteHub Presents: The Price of Creation in Today’s Egypt
    ArteHub Presents: The Price of Creation in Today’s Egypt

    Posted: Nov 1, 2016

    ArteEast presents through its new signature discussion series ArteHub, "The Price of Creation in Today's Egypt." Creative expression in Middle East and North Africa has flourished in recent years. With traditional lines of communication and authority being crossed and even rendered obsolete, writers, artists, journalists, and other generators of culture and expression are defying both geographic and social boundaries.

  • Double Documentary Screening and Director Talk
    Double Documentary Screening and Director Talk

    Posted: Oct 20, 2016

    ArteEast invites you to a Double Screening Documentary event followed by a discussion with award-winning Directors and Sponsored Artists-in-Residence Myriam El Hage and M. Siam. Moderated by Soyoung Yoon, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at The New School.

  • Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency: An Evening with Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti
    Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency: An Evening with Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti

    Posted: Sep 19, 2016

    Join us Saturday, October 22nd 2016 from 4-6PM in the Wood Auditorium, Columbia University, for a conversation on the intersections of art, architecture, and pedagogy with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti. The two discuss their experiences working with refugees and exploring ways of creating, in their words, “different social, political and spatial relationships between people, state and territory beyond the liberal notion of citizenship.”