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On February 20th MOCA presents the U.S. première of Wael Shawky’s film installation “Drama 1882”. Debuted at the Egyptian Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale, this work makes the form of an eight-part opera, performed for the camera and filmed in a theater in Alexandria. “Drama 1882” takes the Urabi

South African artist William Kentridge returns to campus with his latest creation for the stage, a chamber opera set on a 1941 sea voyage from Marseille to Martinique. Conceived in collaboration with theater maker Phala Ookeditse Phala and choral conductor and dancer Nhlanhla Mahlangu, The Great Yes, The Great Nofictionalizes

Directed by William Kentridge, with design and puppet-mastery by Handspring Puppet Company, this irreverent encounter with the “Faustian Pact” remains a powerful metaphor for our times. With music by Warrick Sony and the late and much revered James Phillips underscoring William Kentridge’s glorious animations.

Wael Shawky’s work “I Am Hymns of the New Temples” is part of the 16th Sharjah Art Biennale, from 6 February to 15 June 2025. The Biennial theme, to carry, entails understanding our precarity within spaces that are not our own while staying responsive to these sites through the cultures

On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, William Kentridge will be installed as a Foreign associate member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts by Erik Desmazières, member of Engraving and Drawing section.

On January 30th at 6:00 PM, the Lia Rumma Gallery in Milan will host the presentation of “Marzia Migliora. Sette mostre immaginifiche 1993-2024”, the first monograph dedicated to the artist. Both the artist and curators Matteo Lucchetti and Anna Cestelli Guidi will be present at the event. Conceived as a

Wael Shawky’s practice spans film, performance, drawing, and sculpture. In his latest theatrical film, Drama 1882 (2024), which debuted at the Egyptian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale (2024), Shawky examines the 1882 Urabi Revolution and Egypt’s resistance to British colonialism. This eight-part musical, reimagines the chain of events leading

Thursday, January 16th at 6:00 PM, at the Oratorio di San Filippo Neri in Bologna, the exhibition “TORRI : TERRA” by Grazia Toderi and Gilberto Zorio, curated by Cristina Francucci, will be inaugurated. The exhibition will be open to the public from January 17th to February 5th, from Thursday to

We are pleased to announce the first edition of Napoli Gallery Weekend, a public event dedicated to contemporary art, featuring three days of joint openings by Neapolitan galleries. NGW_Lista_Gallerie_Programma

Gary Hill exhibition “A Question of Perception” shows how the American media conceptual artist has been revealing the essence of image and language through the medium of video for more than five decades. With forty-six works spanning five decades, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg has the largest collection of works by Hill