An Article by A. V. (718 words, 4 min. read)
The Soul’s Deepest Language
Art has always been more than decoration; it is a mirror of the human soul. And what the soul longs for, above all, is beauty. In a world overwhelmed by conflict, noise, and chaos, art has the rare and sacred…
Q and A with Zeina Nader (741 words 4 min.read )
1. Who is your target audience, given that abstract art is not easily understood by many?
My art speaks to everyone, regardless of age, education, or background. Abstract art can be challenging, but it invites viewers to let go of preconceived ideas…
An Article by A. V. (789 words, 4 min. read)
At Jacaranda in Mar Mikhael, an unlikely poetry emerges. Not from paper. Not from a pen. But from bullets—deformed, discolored, forgotten—found by chance and turned into relics of reflection. Silent Impact: Narratives of Bullets, curated with sensitivity by Randa Sadaka in collaboration with Galerie…
An Article by A. V. (858 words, 5 min. read)
There is an exquisite honesty to systems that fall apart in style. With In Entropy, Ghazi Baker invites us into that exquisite unraveling. We are invited not as spectators of disaster, but as participants in the architecture of disorder. On view in Beirut and…
An Article by D. M. (762 words, 4 min. read)
The Presence of Time Itself
At the opening of his retrospective exhibition “D’hier et d’aujourd’hui” at Cheriff Tabet Gallery, time stood still. Guests gathered not only to witness a collection of paintings, but to experience a moment suspended between history and the present,…
An Article by D. M. (1146 words, 6 min. read)
In 1964, a sharp cry of rebellion broke through Beirut’s seemingly polished art world. It came not from a painter or a critic, but from the brechtian playwright Jalal Khoury—a man of the theater who dared to call out what others only whispered. In…
An Article by A. V. (595 words, 3 min. read)
A Garden Beyond The Pain
Confined by illness but liberated by color, Kahlo and Matisse transcended suffering in their final works leaving behind not pain, but joy.
There is something humbling—almost miraculous—about the way some artists choose to say goodbye. When bodies are frail…
An Article by D. M. (764 words, 4 min. read)
A New Language of Painting
There is a quiet resistance in the work of Layla Dagher, one that speaks not with shouts but with layered whispers, stitched memories, and the subtle rupture of silence. Her latest solo exhibition, Unexpected Dialogue, which opened on May…
An Article by A. V. (945 words, 5 min. read)
Ever since humans started etching on the walls of caves, there has been depictions of human figures, faceless, and in different shapes and forms, where the situation rather than the individual was emphasized and was intended to depict a scene or to paint a…
An Article by D. M. (797 words, 4 min. read)
It is not often that one finds oneself turning to nature for answers. The gloomy skies of winter gradually clear up with the arrival of each spring which brings with it its blooming flowers, promising life, in all its glory, painting a palette of…
An Article by D. M. (688 words, 4 min. read)
At the heart of Beirut, beneath the warm light of the Janine Rubeiz Gallery, three artists reunite a decade after their first collaboration to mark a moment that feels both like an end and a beginning. Gregory Buchakjian, François Sargologo, and Hanibal Srouji come…
An Article by A. V. (898 words, 5 min. read)
The Sursock Museum opens its doors to a stirring tribute: a retrospective dedicated to the late Abdel Hamid Baalbaki (1940–2013), a painter whose art carried the soul of South Lebanon, the heartbreak of war, and the persistence of memory. This exhibition is a reconstruction…
