An Article by D. M. (624 words, 3 min. read)
Stepping into the exhibition “Down Memory Lane” at Kalim Bechara Art Gallery is like flipping through the painted pages of a visual memoir. From his early experiments in the 1990s to his most recent creations in 2025, with the various medias he uses, from…
An Article by C. J. (765 words, 4 min. read)
I n the early 20th century, a woman stood in front of towering canvases, her brush guided not by convention, but by something deeper: visions, intuition, and an inner voice that whispered of a world far ahead of its time. That woman was Hilma af…
An Article by D. M. (639 words, 3 min. read)
Spring arrived at Dar El-Nimer for Arts & Culture not just as a season, but as a theme, through a well-curated auction by Nada Boulos, that paid homage to both the freshness of nature and the enduring spirit of modern and contemporary Arab art.…
An Article by D. M. (609 words, 3 min. read)
A World That Hums Between Realities
At D-Space, behind the doors of Art Form’s latest curatorial vision, Antoine Fadel’s exhibition Almost Real: Echoes of the In-Between opened on May 29 with a disarming intimacy. These are not simply photographs; they are living fragments, resonant…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
