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Luxor, Photo by Pauline Beugnies

Art in the public space - Cairo's Qasr El-Nil mural: "The mural’s creation, a kind of public exhibition, prompts dialogue between the artists and the public around the ideas of Egyptian identity, the loss of culture, social division, beauty, and art." >> http://goo.gl/hixpLB

Check out Sada's new photo essay, featuring the creation of Cairo's Qasr El-Nil mural: "The mural’s creation, a kind of public exhibition, prompts dialogue between the artists and the public around the ideas of Egyptian identity, the loss of culture, social division, beauty, and art." View slideshow >>http://goo.gl/hixpLB

The people's art project: New documentary features the work of artist JR and the tiling of our urban spaces in portraits.

A documentary on JR’s worldwide art project to air on HBO | TED Blog “We use images like a weapon to fight for social causes,” says a man in the trailer for INSIDE OUT: The People’s Art Project, a new docu....

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“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.” ― St. Francis of Assisi

Beautiful, poetic and meant to fade away - a charcoal mural portrait of a fisherman by Cuban-American contemporary artist Jorge Rodriguez in Bahrain.

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How great to see art in the public space on the agenda of the British Council in Dubai! (Oh, and the photo features the work of French artist JR, who used a similar wallpapering technique in his murals as did the2ways project).

Today in Dubai: "Art in the Public Realm" - an interesting series of talks by UK and UAE experts, organised by the British Council UAE. More info: http://bit.ly/YE2W3r

The portrait of a street child by artist Ahmed Saber becomes part of the2ways mural, one of the first images attracting passersby.

“Society has been completely urbanized… The street is a place to play and learn. The street is disorder…This disorder is alive. It informs. It surprises… The urban space of the street is a place for talk, given over as much to the exchange of words and signs as it is to the exchange of things. A place where speech becomes writing. A place where speech can become 'savage' and, by escaping rules and institutions, inscribe itself on walls.” -Henri Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution (1970)

Thank you to Jakob Erle, director of the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute, for his photo reportage of the2ways mural project in Luxor!

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the2ways artists embark on the process of designing a mural

For our friends who love music and want to engage in a cultural dialogue with other citizens of the Nile, a concert will take place at the Mahmoud Mokhtar Cultural Centre in Cairo on Thursday, January 31.

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