One of the more florid and unfashionable forms an artist can use these days is the epic. Of course, no one denies the greatness of Homer, the Mahabharata, Gilgamesh, The Aeneid, Dante, Milton, or ...
The Guardian listed the iconic film trilogy “Cabaret Crusades” (2010-2015) by Egyptian director Wael Shawky among “The best art of the 21th Century” along with a number of other widely celebrated ...
Over the course of five years starting in 2010, Egyptian-American artist Wael Shawky created an epic film trilogy on the Crusades, as seen from the medieval Muslim point of view, represented on screen ...
Shawky's video trilogy inspired by Amin Maalouf's 'The Crusades Through Arab Eyes' will be presented at the Kunsthaus Bregenz, a contemporary art gallery in Austria Following the many displays of the ...