PARIS: When French-born Laure d’Hauteville launched the Beirut Art Fair in 2010 it was because she had fallen in love with Lebanon and Middle East art. She was determined to contribute to the Mediterranean country that had become her second home. Due to the catastrophic port explosion on Aug. 4 last year and the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, the Beirut Art Fair was
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The Intersect group of art fairs is holding its California event as an online collaboration between galleries from the south of the state
, the Middle East and North Africa
.
art fairs are reacting to the
realities of Covid-19 –
out across the city, and Frieze starting
a membership scheme – but also how smaller fairs are remaining
welcome hosts to
Intersect Art and Design was launched last year by brothers Tim and Dirk von Gal, who acquired the fairs Art Aspen, Sofa Chicago and Art Palm Springs, and revamped them as Intersect-branded events
. Beirut s Galerie Tanit is showing frescoes by Dubai artist Chafa Ghaddar. Here, Corps 3 (2019). Courtesy Intersect Art and Design