Writing the Canon: Notes on Art Education in Egypt
Six Degrees encompasses critical essays, in-depth research, and diverse opinions about the arts and its contexts from practitioners around the world, as well as dispatches by New Museum staff. In this essay, Omar Kholeif, curator, writer, and Senior Editor… Read more
Museum as Hub: Reflections on the 2013 Conference by Natasha Marie Llorens
On April 12–13, 2013, the Museum as Hub hosted a conference to mark the sixth anniversary of the Hub initiative. The conference aimed, in part, to consider strategies for the next phase of the project, while also reflecting more broadly on the rapidly… Read more
On Instituting A New Space For Thought
In the late spring of 2012, curators Sarah Rifky (formerly of Townhouse in Cairo) and Jens Maier-Rothe (Whitney Independent Study Program graduate) had both planned to be in Beirut. A fortunate turn of events kept them in Cairo a little longer than planned… Read more
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