An Article by D. M. (602 words, 3 min. read) There are events that do not pass. They are scars in the body and in the soul. The August 4 explosion was one collective tragedy. It did not simply shatter glass or scatter stone. It lodged itself in the chest, in the back of the throat, in the…

An Article by D. M. (833 words, 4 min. read) To step into Stéphanie Saadé’s exhibition at the Sursock Museum is to walk, quite literally, over memory. The floors of the galleries, once a family home, now carry the reconstructed surfaces of another: the artist’s childhood apartment in Lebanon. “Traversée des états”(Terrazzo Tiles) spreads out beneath your feet, not…

An Article by D.M. (1346. words, 7 min. read) There are exhibitions that showcase art. And then there are exhibitions that ask you to question everything you think you know about how images live, speak, disappear, or endure. Becoming Icon at the Sursock Museum is not a display of icons—it is an inquiry into what it…

An Article by C. N. (1385 words, 7 min. read) We grew up with the sound of shells louder than bedtime stories. Our childhood was split — not in years, but in barricades, gunshots, and the kind of silence that only comes after an explosion. We Lebanese, never needed a history book to understand what war is. We lived it. We…

An Article by C. N. (726 words, 4 min. read) In the pantheon of muses that have inspired art across the ages, the cat reigns with quiet majesty. With its sinuous movements, sphinx-like calm, and ungraspable gaze, the cat has been immortalized by artists from ancient Egypt to 20th-century modernists. In the exhibition Cats…