Egypt’s art scene has been transformed since the January revolution. After decades of censorship and state-sponsored cultural production, artists now scrambling to make sense of a new creative landscape in which little appears isolated from its broader political context. Inevitably, the events of 2011 form the focal point of many new creations. If under Mubarak it was a sin to be political in one’s art, it seems that being apolitical is now the ultimate creative crime.