This is How The Beirut Art Fair Brought 'Creativists' Together
Published December 13th, 2020 - 07:23 GMT
A visitor takes a picture of George W. Bush surrounded by black shoes during the opening of the Beirut Art Fair (Twitter)
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Less than a month later, the economic crisis and uprising had started.
Despite Beirut Art Fair having to cancel its 2020 edition, it's been working quietly in the background, looking for ways to keep engaging and supporting local artists.
At the end of November, BAF launched an open call on social media, seeking emerging Lebanese artists who need need a hand, to offset Lebanon’s multiple crises. The idea was to select artworks and offer them for sale, one per day, over the week of Dec. 3-9. After receiving about 200 applications in four days, BAF founder Laure d’Hauteville whittled down the artists to seven.