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Join us at e-flux on Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm for live performances with Jad Atoui and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe.

Van Leo rose to fame as one of the top studio photographers of the Arab world from the 1940s–1960s. A new exhibition taps into the cult of personality,…

The renowned Armenian Egyptian studio photographer’s camera work, which traces his career from the 1930s to the 1990s, is on display.

“In Lebanon, they give us this term which I hate, and that is ‘resilience’ because we never had the choice whether to be resilient or not.”

The first international survey of work by the late Armenian-Egyptian studio photographer Van Leo is currently on display in the Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles as a collaboration between the museum and AUC’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library, which holds the Van Leo collection, with additional collaborative support from the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut. Becoming Van Leo is showing until November 5 and includes ephemera and some photographs printe...

The a href= http://hammer.ucla.edu target= _blank Hammer Museum /a is opening Becoming Van Leo, the first survey of the Armenian Egyptian photogr

Cultural Emergency Response, an “ambulance” for the world, is dedicated to saving treasures from all kinds of natural and man-made disasters.

Curated by noncitizen members Nour Helou, Afrang Nordlöf Malekian, and Christian Rossipal. With a music composition by Ahmad Alattar, films by Merazul Islam and Roozbeh Behtaji, Evan Khorasani, Elyas Alavi and Critical Border Studies, and Meriem Bennani, and a conversation with Amany Khalifa.

In all 23 projects, from Virginia to Hong Kong, are receiving support through the bank's latest round of conservation grants

Bank of America announced today that 23 cultural institutions have been named as recipients of the 2023 Bank of America Art Conservation Project. They represent a diverse range of artistic styles, media and cultural traditions across China, Colombia,...