BEIRUT: Nothing is quite what it seems. Tricks of the light shatter illusions and provoke confusion. Natural and artificial are at odds. Doreen Khanamirian El...
BEIRUT: Sixty years ago, this city bore little resemblance to the place today. For those who never knew Beirut in its golden age, it’s difficult to...
BEIRUT: “No relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,” Joseph Conrad wrote in his 1899 novella “Heart of Darkness,”...
BEIRUT: Without the minute details, the beauty of the natural world would be hard to see. Hala Schoukhair’s solo show “You Promised Me...
BEIRUT: Every city tells of a long and lively history. Various facets of this city – a child, a dancer, a fisherman, a soldier, a street vendor –...
BEIRUT: When you throw a stone in water, it creates a ripple effect. The still surface is disturbed, sending out rapidly growing rings in its wake. For...
BEIRUT: Some believe that paradise is a haven for kindness and knowledge. Others envision heaven on earth in their natural surroundings, with trees, flowers...
BEIRUT: We’re all children at heart, they say. If we could channel that innocence and generosity, perhaps the world would be a less jaundiced place....
BEIRUT: Given its global reach, the U.S. dollar is thought the most reliable of currencies. The note is also synonymous with debt. Hady Sy’s solo...
BEIRUT: Defeat and surrender are part of the human condition. Artist and Artspace Hamra founder Leila Kubba Kawash learned this at an early age. Nomadism and...
BEIRUT: There is a fine line between truth and nostalgia. The trauma of witnessing the demolition of a home, for example, and the relentless attacks on a...
BEIRUT: Big Brother, as Orwell warned, is watching. In the case of Mazen Khaddaj’s “Emotion in Motion,” an exhibition of canvases and video...
BEIRUT: Flashback to May 2, 1998. Fans of the Harry Potter franchise will know this to be the date of the Battle of Hogwarts, when the young wizard triumphed...
BEIRUT: The works on show in Bassel Saadi’s “Homage to Mahmoud Hammad,” currently up at Agial art gallery, could be described as the results...
BEIRUT: “A color is as strong as the impression it creates.” This aphorism from 20th-century American self-portraitist Ivan Albright is timeless....
BEIRUT: Every child has a story. Every tragedy has a consequence. Every moment of hopelessness has a silver lining. Mainstream media coverage of Syrian...
BEIRUT: God created man, it’s been said, and it’s been downhill ever since. The 14 pieces that comprise “On the Eighth Day,” an...
NABATIEH, Lebanon: Atop a south Lebanese hill lies the Kamel Youssef Jaber Cultural and Social Center. Nestled among blossoming jasmine trees, this venue was...
BEIRUT: The phrase “coming out of the closet” takes on a whole new meaning in Ghada Zoughbi’s “Regimes of the Personal,”...
BEIRUT: Pastels of soft, subtle movement intertwine with the hard blocks of color on the walls at Artspace Hamra. Playing off one another like two faces of...
BEIRUT: Spotlights illuminate the myriad oil and acrylic canvasses and ink-on-paper works while metallic sculptures cast prominent shadows on the wall and the...
BEIRUT: There is a renascent nostalgia at play in Oussama Baalbaki’s “Spectres of the Real,” an exhibition of acrylics now on show at Agial...
BEIRUT: There was something almost incomprehensible upon first stepping foot in Artspace Hamra. The hushed voices reverberated and escalated as men in suits...
BEIRUT: Abdel-Aziz Street is dense three-dimensional collage of billboards, signage and ads, plastered on every wall of every structure. One display window,...
MAAMALTEIN, Lebanon: As audience members slowly filed into the Casino du Liban theater, trumpet, flute, clarinet, and cello players tuned their instruments...