BEIRUT: A window offers a different perspective, depending what side you’re on. Looking in, you see something different than if you were looking out....
BEIRUT: A walk into the surreal and the fabled is on show at Galerie Tanit these days. Emerging from the walls and encased in glass are seven dioramas and...
BEIRUT: “Lebanon is like Switzerland 100 years ago,” suggested Adrian Notz, noting that during World War I Switzerland was a safe haven for its...
BEIRUT: Depictions of celebrity performers Fairouz, Wadih al-Safi and Riad al-Solh, the first prime minister of independent Lebanon, are among those adorning...
BEIRUT: In its most recent usage, the term “Blowback” denotes how every decision or military action provokes unintended, unwanted consequences....
BEIRUT: “I believe that literature and art can save us,” Iman Humaydan said. “It allows you to see yourself differently and situate yourself...
BEIRUT: Cola recently became host to a seven-story cedar. American artist Andrew Schoultz created the acrylic-and-spray paint rendering of Lebanon’s...
BEIRUT: Nowadays, when fabrics and the dyes that color them are likely to have been concocted in a lab somewhere, nonsynthetics can acquire the quality of...
BEIRUT: The hauntingly tortured faces that observe you from the walls of Art on 56th gallery are accompanied by a soundtrack of jazz music. Arrayed over three...
BEIRUT: Christina Lamb recalls being lured into a career as a foreign correspondent while interning at the Financial Times. The foreign editor had been...
BEIRUT: Prominent at Sursock Museum these days is a series of hand-drawn, black-and-white figures with handwritten Arabic words around them. Entitled “A...
BEIRUT: A photo is a reproduction of what the human eye sees, yet it’s sometimes challenging to capture the size of what’s been photographed....
BEIRUT: An intriguing, and untitled, four-part video installation depicts various news clips and articles that artist Lamia Maria Abillama compiled on certain...
BEIRUT: There is an intriguing installation on show at Art Lab nowadays. Mounted upon a white stand, a bust has two pink holes at the chest, while six small...
BEIRUT: The first thing you see entering the Lebanese National Library’s Sanayeh location – Lebanese University’s erstwhile College of Law...
BEIRUT: Upon entering Sanayeh Garden (aka Rene Mouawad Garden), the city recedes into the background. Planted in 1907 in what is now the heart of Beirut, this...
BEIRUT: Songwriters Noel and Michelle Keserwany became online celebrities earlier this year, thanks to “Zaffatleh El Tarik,” the hot pop music...
BEIRUT: Renowned British actress and activist Vanessa Redgrave has come to Beirut for a collaborative performance with Mariam Said – best known,...
BEIRUT: The first thing you see hung in “Beyond Writing,” the exhibition of work by calligrapher, critic and poet Samir Sayegh now up at Plan Bey,...