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A Celebration of Art and Legacy: Mahmoud Amhaz at Dar Saab

Art, Art World, CultureJune 2, 20253KViews 8Likes 0Comments

An Article by C. N. (509 words, 3 min. read) On a luminous afternoon of May 31, the Dar Saab cultural space opened its doors and garden gates to welcome nearly two hundred guests for an unforgettable celebration of art, culture, and human spirit. The occasion marked the opening of a major solo exhibition…

The French Kiss: A Divine Mess of Lips, Souls, and a Dash of Microworld Exchanged.

Art, Art World, CultureMay 31, 20251KViews 8Likes 0Comments

A Collaborative Article by A. V. and J. J. (1118 words, 6 min. read) “In one kiss, you’ll know all I haven’t said.” — Pablo Neruda The Prelude: Two Mouths Walk Into a Bar… Let us face it: the French kiss is not for the faint of heart. It is not a polite…

Imaginary Homeland: Kevork Mourad’s Layers of Memory, Migration, and Meaning

Art, Art WorldMay 30, 20253KViews 8Likes 0Comments

An Article by C. N. (1078 words, 6 min. read) The Home That Follows Us What happens to a homeland when we leave it behind? Does it vanish in silence, or does it follow us—reshaped by longing, recreated through memory? In Imaginary Homeland, Kevork Mourad answers this question not with certainty, but with poetry.…

Art Should Be Beautiful: A Plea for Healing Through Beauty

Art, Art World, CultureMay 27, 20252KViews 6Likes 0Comments

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…

Silent Impact: When Bullets Become Memory and Music

Art, Culture, PhotographyMay 26, 20251KViews 5Likes 0Comments

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…

Ghazi Baker’s “In Entropy”: A Blueprint for Beautiful Collapse

Art, Art WorldMay 25, 20251KViews 5Likes 0Comments

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…

A Life in Every Stroke: Samir Tabet at 103: An Emotional Tribute To a Living Legend Through his Retrospective “D’hier et d’aujourd’hui”

Art, Art World, CultureMay 25, 20253KViews 8Likes 0Comments

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,…

“Je suis inculte!”: A Cry for Art That Belongs to Us

Art, Art World, CultureMay 20, 20253KViews 7Likes 0Comments

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…

Viva la Vida & The Snail: Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse’s Final Ode to Life

Art, CultureMay 19, 20251KViews 5Likes 0Comments

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…

A Soft Uprising: Layla Dagher’s Unexpected Dialogue

Art, Art WorldMay 18, 20252KViews 4Likes 0Comments

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…

We Thirst for Creativity: Yet Another Faceless Exhibition

Art, Art World, CultureMay 17, 20251KViews 7Likes 0Comments

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…

Flowers: Zeina Nader’s Spring from Within

Art, Art WorldMay 16, 20253KViews 8Likes 0Comments

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…

A Celebration of Art and Legacy: Mahmoud Amhaz at Dar Saab

The French Kiss: A Divine Mess of Lips, Souls, and a Dash of Microworld Exchanged.

Imaginary Homeland: Kevork Mourad’s Layers of Memory, Migration, and Meaning

Art Should Be Beautiful: A Plea for Healing Through Beauty

Silent Impact: When Bullets Become Memory and Music

Ghazi Baker’s “In Entropy”: A Blueprint for Beautiful Collapse

A Life in Every Stroke: Samir Tabet at 103: An Emotional Tribute To a Living Legend Through his Retrospective “D’hier et d’aujourd’hui”

“Je suis inculte!”: A Cry for Art That Belongs to Us

Viva la Vida & The Snail: Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse’s Final Ode to Life

A Soft Uprising: Layla Dagher’s Unexpected Dialogue

We Thirst for Creativity: Yet Another Faceless Exhibition

Flowers: Zeina Nader’s Spring from Within

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