The third edition of the JAOU Tunis arts festival, which took place during the last week of May, was inevitably framed by the tragic events that struck the Bardo National Museum in mid-March this year. Twenty-one people, mostly foreign tourists, were killed by Islamic extremists who attacked the museum. 

Chilean-born artist, architect and filmmaker Alfredo Jaar’s public interventions are at once arresting and contemplative.

Eminent American photographer Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015), whose prolific career spanned five decades, passed away on May 25 at the age of 75 after suffering from myelodysplastic syndrome, a disorder of the bone marrow.