An Article by D. M. (849 words, 4 mins read) A World Hidden Inside the Everyday Ordinary Things, Zena Assi’s exhibition at Galerie Tanit, Beirut, from September 10 to October 10, slowly leads us back to our own lives. A bottle, a flower, a ladder, a ceramic creature, a piece of embroidery, a fragment…

An Article by S.H. (1044 words, 6 min read) A Different Kind of Encounter There is something strangely intimate about meeting a fish eye to eye. Graham Stevenson understands this intimacy. In Second Nature, his first solo exhibition devoted to fish-themed watercolor, which opened on August 29 at Mission Art Gallery in Mar Mikhael, Beirut,…

An Article by D.M. (1815 words, 10 min. read) What Happens When We Stop Looking at the Art? An art scene can have everything. Talented artists. Serious galleries. Passionate collectors. Curators with vision. Museums, foundations, critics, fairs, exhibitions and an audience hungry for culture. And still, something can slowly weaken from within. Jealousy. Rivalry. Territorial…

An Article by D.M. (929 words, 5 min. read) Some exhibitions restore a voice that has long deserved to be heard where it first began. Darkness and Light, presented simultaneously at the Dalloul Artist Collective and the Dalloul Art Foundation from July 24 until September 19, offers Lebanon its first major encounter with Nabil Kanso.…

An Article by our UK correspondent T. M. (868 words, 5 min. read) A Life That Never Stayed Within the Frame Yayoi Kusama has left this world at the age of 97, after spending almost an entire century transforming its limits. She painted until her final days, faithful to the language she had invented…

An Article by D.M. (929 words, 5 min. read) Art in Motion at the USEK Museum during La Nuit des Musées There are paintings that continue to move long after the painter has laid down the brush. Their colors still breathe, their compositions continue their silent journey beneath the surface, and every layer of pigment…

An Article by M. R. (644 words, 3 min. read) When Metal Learns Compassion From 9 July to 14 August 2026, Saleh Barakat Gallery hosts Hady Sy’s latest solo exhibition, Human Inc. (Ascending Souls). At a time when conversations about artificial intelligence often revolve around speed, efficiency, and technological performance, Hady Sy redirects our attention elsewhere. He…

An Article by D.M. (796 words, 4 min. read) Hidden among the pine trees of Ras el Matn, the Saloua Raouda Choucair Foundation preserves a true legacy. Entering its spaces feels indeed like stepping inside the mind of an artist. Paintings converse with sculptures. Tapestries answer geometric studies. Wooden maquettes, jewelry, tools, pigments, furniture and…

An Investigative Joint Article by D.M. and J. M. (1458 words, 8 min. read) A Painting Has Only One Birth Every original painting is born only once. From the moment the artist signs the final brushstroke, that work begins its own journey. It may remain in the artist’s studio, enter a gallery, become part of…

An Article by D.M. (812 words, 4 min. read) When the Wires Become the City There are details that quietly reshape a city until they become inseparable from its identity. In Beirut, electrical cables have gradually become one of those defining features. Suspended above streets, stretched between buildings and endlessly multiplied by years of improvisation,…