Assiut University will hold the second international meeting for plastic arts dialogue (south - south) under the title plastic arts between material values and spiritual values at the period 1-3/11/2010, under the auspices of Dr. Mustafa Kamal, President of the University, and Dr. Mohamed Ragab Bayoumi Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research, headed by Dr. Abdul Hakam Younis Dean of the Faculty of Specific Education. Dr. Mansour Al Mansy said that the forum aims to enrich the cultural side, and spiritual and intellectual development for the university students, researchers and lovers of culture and the arts, where the forum discusses several topics concerning the role of plastic arts in the movement of the national community and the Arab world, plastic arts between rooting legacies of the people and the preservation of national identity, experimentation in Arab plastic arts, the role of media in the marketing of the culture of plastic arts, the importance of art criticism in the elaboration of the visual vision for the artist and the community. And that’s through a group of artists and researchers of South arts, the participation of business men, managers of Arab and international museums, and a group of critics inside and outside Egypt.