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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…

The Final Flame of Romanticism: Three artists, three visions, and one poignant farewell

Art, Art WorldMay 15, 20253KViews 8Likes 0Comments

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…

The House That Art Built: A Tribute to Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

ArtMay 15, 20251KViews 4Likes 0Comments

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…

Spotlight: Q and A with Ghazi Baker

SpotlightMay 15, 20251KViews 7Likes 0Comments

Q and A with Ghazi Baker (690 words 4 min.read ) 1. Can you reflect on a childhood memory that may have driven you or influenced you to become an artist? I’ve always been drawn to the act of mark-making — even as a child, I was constantly sketching, inventing characters, creating little…

Among the Ghosts of Light: A Visit to Francesca Woodman at the Albertina

Art, Art World, CultureMay 14, 20251KViews 7Likes 0Comments

An Article by D. M. (919 words, 5 min. read) It is quiet in the Albertina Museum, yet it hums with the invisible presence of someone who left too soon. I walk through rooms dimly lit, filled with fragile black and white images, each square frame a breath, a whisper, a question. The exhibition…

Harissa, A Sacred Sculpture of Sky, Sea, and Soul

Art World, CultureMay 14, 20252KViews 5Likes 0Comments

An Article by A. V. (813 words, 4 min. read) A Sacred Peak Above the Sea Perched high above the shimmering bay of Jounieh, with arms open wide to the Mediterranean and to the heart of Lebanon, the statue of Our Lady of Lebanon at Harissa stands not just as a religious icon, but…

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

The Final Flame of Romanticism: Three artists, three visions, and one poignant farewell

The House That Art Built: A Tribute to Abdel Hamid Baalbaki

Spotlight: Q and A with Ghazi Baker

Among the Ghosts of Light: A Visit to Francesca Woodman at the Albertina

Harissa, A Sacred Sculpture of Sky, Sea, and Soul

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