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Storytelling across the Mediterranean
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May 23, 2012 01:23 AM
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BEIRUT: “Not everyone can write a novel,” remarks Francois Beaune, “but everyone has a story to share.” This is how the French writer summarizes “Histoires Vraies de Mediterranee” (True Tales of the Mediterranean), the cultural and literary project that has...
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Zouk Mikael gears up for annual international music festival
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May 19, 2012 12:05 AM
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BEIRUT: “One of our greatest assets,” said Zouk Mikael International Festival president Zalfa Bouez, “is our sociocultural diversity.” Though it isn’t usually included among Lebanon’s unofficial “big three” of summer music festivals, Zouk...
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Art work: Not at all like selling bread
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May 17, 2012 12:09 AM
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This is the latest in a series of interviews with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists in the international art market. BEIRUT: Lea Sednaoui opened The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space in Karantina three years...
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Lebanon and Guinea to meet at DRM
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May 15, 2012 12:03 AM
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BEIRUT: “I am discovering Lebanon, playing music with Zeid,” said Guinean musician and composer Kandjha Kouyate, “and discovering the shawarma.” Born to a family of musicians, Kouyate met with Lebanese composer and music impresario Zeid Hamdan in 2006 at “Kora and...
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We are the trend now
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May 11, 2012 12:14 AM
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This is the latest in a series of interviews with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists in the international art market. BEIRUT: Andree Sfeir-Semler established Gallery Sfeir-Semler in the Germany city of Kino in 1985...
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A summer of musical diversity en route to Lebanon
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May 11, 2012 12:14 AM
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BEIRUT: The summer season has officially started. Beaches and rooftop venues are opening and, now, Lebanon’s major summer festivals have announced their lineups. The public – whether Lebanese, local foreigners, returning expats or sunburnt tourists – will have a wide choice of...
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Jump into a fantasy city within the city
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May 09, 2012 12:11 AM
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BEIRUT: “Saltimbanco” is derived from the phrase “saltare in banco,” which is the way an Italian might say “to jump on a bench.” “Saltimbanco” is also the oldest touring show of the circus troupe Cirque du Soleil, one that combines acrobatics and...
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We have to feel the art, the emotion
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May 04, 2012 12:07 AM
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This is the latest in a series of chats with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists in the international art market. BEIRUT: “Janine Rubeiz was my mother,” said Nadine Begdache, owner of Raouche’s...
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In Beirut too, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus
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May 03, 2012 12:11 AM
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BEIRUT: American author and marriage counselor John Gray published “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus” in 1992. Since then, Gray’s study of the irreconcilable differences between men and women, the principal reason they don’t understand each other, has found a few...
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‘Tango Nocturno’ cries out to let the dance embrace you
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April 27, 2012 12:10 AM
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BEIRUT: Something like a Latin American breeze passed through Music Hall Wednesday evening, courtesy of the Fabian Bertero Tango Quartet, temporarily transporting the audience to Argentina and setting the scene for an evening of dance. The instrumental solo was the introduction to “Tango...
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Dedicated to hyping contemporary art
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April 26, 2012 12:13 AM
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This is the latest in a series of Q&As with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists in the international art market. BEIRUT: In December 1972, Naila Kettaneh-Kunigk opened the Galerie Tanit in Munich and for forty...
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Revolution in music expressed in a symphony of color
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April 24, 2012 12:18 AM
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BEIRUT: We take hands for granted as the principal means with which we (literally) grapple with the world. It goes without saying that hands play an important role in creative pursuits – applying to medical practice of treating a patient as much as the artistic practices of writing a book or...
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Art as a way of expressing freedom
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April 20, 2012 12:06 AM
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This is the latest in a series of Q&As with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists in the international art market. BEIRUT: For the last 20 years, Lebanese gallerist Alice Mogabgab has played an important part in...
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A festive gathering of performers
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April 19, 2012 12:13 AM
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BEIRUT: Spring is a season of entertainment in Beirut, a tradition set to be renewed later this week with the start of the city’s Spring Festival. Based in Tayyouneh’s Dawar al-SHAMS art space, this year’s event promises to stage musical, dance and theatrical performances and...
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Region’s artists are ‘humans first’
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April 12, 2012 12:04 AM
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Editorial note: This is the first in a series of Q&As with Beirut-area gallerists about the shifting challenges and opportunities in representing Lebanese and other Arab artists in the international art market. BEIRUT: A gallery isn’t just a shop where you can buy paintings. There is no...
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