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CairoScene
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Azza Fahmy Eye Of Horus Bustier On Display at the Young V&A in London
Fahmy's 2023 collaboration with Balmain is now enshrined in the London art museum as part of the 'Making Egypt' exhibition. May 05, 2025 The Eye of Horus Bustier, designed by Azza Fahmy in collaboration with Balmain for their 2023 Resort Collection, is now on display at the Young Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The piece is being exhibited as part of the 'Making Egypt' exhibition which explores the enduring creativity of Ancient Egypt on the modern art, design, and cultural landscape. Azza Fahmy's golden Eye of Horus takes its form from the Ancient Egyptian symbol of protection. Shaped like modern armour, and completed with a clasp on the back which reads the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph for protection, this piece embodies the transhistorical dialogue of the exhibition. Founded in 1969, Azza Fahmy has carved out a global presence as a brand which translates Egyptian culture into wearable art. Her latest retail expansion in London, alongside her presence among the Young V&A's display items, demonstrate a growing global presence.
Euronews
17-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Culture Agenda: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week
Welcome back for another week of recommendations! February always feels like a quiet rush, but there's plenty to fill the time with. While we've focused on two exhibitions happening in London, elsewhere in Europe we've also covered the Nxt Museum's technological exploration 'Still Processing', along with a trailblazing new art initiative in the Finnish city of Oulu, which has been named European Capital of Culture 2026. The Berlin Film Festival also continues this week, with many highly-anticipated movies due to premiere. Our critic David Mouriquand will be keeping us well fed with reviews and interviews throughout - so stay tuned! And speaking of cinema, Walter Salles' Oscar-nominated picture I'm Still Here is released in UK cinemas on 21 February and is definitely one to look out for - alongside the below suggestions. Enjoy, and let us know what you get up to and what you're planning! Exhibitions Sophie von Hellermann: Moonage Where: Pilar Corrias (London, UK) When: Until 22 March 2025 There's a starman waiting in London's Pilar Corrias gallery, with a galactic daydream of an exhibition by German artist Sophie von Hellermann. Drawing on fables and mythology, her paintings are like brushstrokes into a swirling subconscious world, where places and people are caught in dreamlike motion. Her series of moonlit masterpieces, hued in the cosmic energies of romance and ambient cosiness, are titled 'Moonage', paying tribute to David Bowie and his iconic androgynous character Ziggy Stardust. It's out of this world. Making Egypt Where: Young V&A (London, UK) When: Until 2 November 2025 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Young V&A (@ Did you know that Ancient Egyptians invented toothpaste around 5000 BC by mixing things like salt with flowers? This fascinating civilisation cultivated many of the foundations of modern societies and continue to captivate our imaginations. A new exhibition at the Young V&A in London explores this further, with over 200 Egyptian-themed items from their archives that have never been displayed before. From a 3,000-year-old wooden funerary boat to a modern-day LEGO construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, it walks us through the creativity and innovation at the heart of Ancient Egypt, and how that continues to inspire the world today. Events Fête du Citron (Lemon Festival) Where: Menton, France When: 15 February - 2 March When life gives you lemons, head to Menton, also known as 'Cité des Citrons'! This vibrant annual event hasn't lost any of its zest since it started celebrating of the Mediterranean French resort's famed production of oranges and lemons. Having originated in 1934, streets are filled with fantastical fruit-laden floats. It's one of Europe's quirkiest traditions and welcomes a slowly awakening spring with all the bright colours and communal excitement. The Monkey From British pop star Robbie Williams in Better Man, to a satanically possessed wind-up toy in The Monkey, primates might be cinemas' new main character. A follow-up to the (overhyped) 2024 movie Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins keeps things horror with an adaptation of a short story by Stephen King. Two twin brothers (both played by Theo James) have been cursed by the presence of a sinister percussion-playing monkey toy all their lives, which causes gruesome deaths to all those that witness it. Twenty-five year after they thought they'd destroyed it, the toy re-enters their lives and once again sets in motion a blood-splattered spree of gorily humorous devastation. The Berlin film Festival 2025 The 75th Berlinale, the world's biggest movie festival for the public, began last week (13 February) with the opening film Das Licht (The Light) by Tom Tykwer. Our critic David Mouriquand called it "an ambitious, clumsy and ultimately insufferable parable" - but thankfully there's a lot more (hopefully good) stuff to come! From press conferences to exclusive interviews and reviews of all Competition films, keep your eyes peeled for all our upcoming coverage this week - and don't forget to look through our ten most anticipated titles. Television Zero Day When: 20 February Where: Netflix Robert De Niro has finally arrived on the small screen in a leading role! Playing a straight-talking former US President tasked with leading an investigation into a devastating global cyberattack that resulted in several fatalities, it's an urgent thriller with added heft in Trump's political climate. Delving into themes of corruption, power and misinformation amidst the complex internal revelations of its protagonist, the show is fast-pulsed with drama and tension - even if as De Niro told Netflix "right now, our actual world is scarier.' Also currently streaming and highly recommended: White Lotus, Yellowjackets and Severance - see the full list of current and upcoming TV shows we're most excited about this year. Music Sam Fender: People Watching When: 21 February Similar to The War on Drugs, British singer-songwriter Sam Fender's music has that effervescent coming-of-age quality. His third album, a follow-up to 2021's award-winning 'Seventeen Going Under', has taken a while - a deliberate choice. Posting on social media last November, Fender said: 'Me and the band have picked away at these songs for the last couple of years, we recorded so much material in that time and deliberated long and hard over what came next." The 30-year-old released two singles ahead of the album's release: 'Arm's length' and 'People watching', the latter of which stars acclaimed Irish actor Andrew Scott in its music video.
Telegraph
12-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Making Egypt, Young V&A: an exhibition for children that they will actually want to see
How do you create an exhibition geared specifically for children? This is the question that preoccupies curators at east London's Young V&A, where the second temporary exhibition since the 2023 revamp of the former Museum of Childhood opens this week, on the theme of ancient Egypt. Since the show's target audience is eight- to 12-year-olds, and I have a couple of those at home, I decided to bring along my children for a preview. 'If only,' messaged a friend, upon hearing of my plan, as I doled out notebooks and biros, and briefed the girls to deliver a verdict fit for a national newspaper, 'you could always get them to do your work.' With more than 200 exhibits – some thousands of years old (and mostly amulet-sized), but many modern (including a Lego set of the Great Pyramid and a chic 1920s beaded lamé evening jacket) – Making Egypt is about 'creativity' as much as ancient history. You might expect an exhibition on this subject for kids to go big on, say, the grisly processes of mummification (brain tissue was removed via the nostrils – ew!). But, while it does contain a sarcophagus, as well as beautifully painted fragments of cartonnage (plaster-covered linen wrappings from coffins), this show – the mise-en-scène of which, in the opening section, ingeniously summons an atmosphere of sunny ease beside the Nile – shifts the emphasis from death and the afterlife to ancient Egyptian art and design, which, it argues, still inspires artists, couturiers, and filmmakers. That inner sarcophagus of Princess Sopdet-em-haawt is used to tell a story about writing. There's no timeline or historical overview, and only one overarching genealogy of the gods (in cartoon form); instead, the curators provide fun, themed displays about, say, the animals of the Nile (including hippos and crocodiles, which the Egyptians worshipped), or the significance of various deities' bestial attributes. Interactive games encourage children to learn about hieroglyphs (although it's brave to include a grammar lesson on 'determinatives', which scrambled my adult brain). My nine-year-old's response when invited to guess what the hieroglyph for a tree could represent? 'Um, is it a willy?' Sigh. The curators, though, understand what tone best appeals to children, and accordingly pepper the labels with punning subheadings and jokey asides; while, for me, these quips induced much groaning, my eldest approved. Both girls were struck by an astonishingly 'pretty' and contemporary-looking ancient bracelet of faience daisies, and a stunning blue silk-and-satin gown from 2022, by Maison Farah Wali, with a resplendent beaded bodice inspired by Horus, the falcon-headed god. With an area for reading storybooks, and a couple of zones where children can draw, there's plenty to keep young visitors occupied. Although my five-year-old son seemed to be most taken by a big screen playing clips from the video game Minecraft (which, I fear, may reflect badly on his parents), and soon got a little antsy, the girls, I'm happy to report, were engrossed for the best part of an hour. Making history palatable for schoolchildren isn't easy – but all the work that's gone into this imaginative, effective show pays off. From Feb 15; information:
