The monotony in everyday objects gives way to unexpected beauty as Tatiana Alieva ponders upon “life’s obsessions” in her solo art exhibition where animals like the zebra experience a beauty revolution.
Until October 20, at Gallery Nawei, Marina Mandarin Hotel. Tel: 6338 0076
Phenomenal 22-year-old French pianist Lise de la Salle, who began piano lessons at the age of four, joins the SSO for Saint-Saëns’ Concerto No 2 while acclaimed American conductor John Nelson leads the orchestra in one of Mahler’s most popular symphonies, the Fifth.
One of the greatest Egyptian films ever made, Shadi Abdel Salam’s Al Momia (The Night of Counting the Years) is based on a true story of how the mysterious apparition of 21st dynasty artefacts in the black market leads to the discovery that pharaonic tombs had been plundered for millennia by the Horabat mountain tribe. The latter’s ancient way of life is disrupted when the sons of the tribal chief refuse to perpetuate the practice further. In Arabic with English subtitles.
At Gallery Theatre, The National Museum. Tel: 6348 5555
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