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| Just off Tahrir square is Mohamed Mahmoud street which has an amazing selection of graffiti & stencil art, and memorials to those killed in the revolution. It's a crazy energetic smorgasboard of voices. All the following works can be found there. Here's a link to a great site about street art and graffiti during the uprising. Revolution Graffiti - Street Art of the New Egypt |
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| The Revolution exhibition. A chronology of events with graphic documentation and lots of handwritten texts. |
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| After Tahrir we went to an opening of works by contemporary artist Mohamed Abla at Art Corner gallery in Zamalek. Lots of small works from different periods of his career, for the most part all before the revolution. It's a fascinating mini-survey charting his evolution both formally as well as his changing subject matter. |
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| Two very different works that have a different kind of energy than the others. In the work on the left Abla incorporates the infamous 'blue bra' image of state brutality to women. |
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| Abla in the center with cap. |
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