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With a soft techno beat throbbing in the background, waiters glide about the room offering canapés with champagne or, for the pious, glasses of orange juice. Men in business suits or jeans mix with women, some wearing above-the-knee skirts, some in long dresses and head scarves. It's a typical soirée for Cairo's well-heeled set, yet tonight there's more than the usual Middle East-meets-West twist. The revelers are here to toast an unlikely creative marriage, between Egyptian artist Azza Fahmy, who has spent decades reviving Arab jewelry traditions...
...himself and not trying to grow up so fast was a harder road to take. These kids steal to eat, lie to get by, outwit tourists to get money. It takes years for them to understand that education is the only way. It has not been easy, given his background, but he is doing well...
...Corbu Pops” had, the performance splashed the container off the table. Placed in a corner of the Carpenter Center lobby, the set was a large and angled board painted with a ghostly cliff face of melting mouths, eyes, ears, and noses. Melancholy organ music played in the background as the student actors wearing over-sized baby masks with large glasses struck blasé poses watching the audience watching them or contemplating a spot on the floor or the ceiling. Questions of the viewer-performer relation were further raised by Pope.L’s shifting positions. The artist...
...Family” holds center stage, both as the name of the rundown adult film theatre that serves as the Pineda clan’s home and sole source of income, and as the core group responsible for the film’s relational dilemmas. Set against the background of a lawsuit between matriarch Nanay Flor (Gina Pareño) and her estranged husband, the film displays a day in the life of her large extended family’s impoverished existence. Her daughter Nayda (Jacklyn Jose) resents the unbreakable ties to this home that an unexpected pregnancy...
...sacrifice worth making to carry out the art’s intent.“The Space Within; The Time Without,” on view through April 3, calls for observation, perception, and deliberation. To directly address the exhibition, which passively defies confrontation by retreating into the background, is to uncover a metaphysical wonderland...