The 1960s saw Beirut's thriving art scene in full swing, before Lebanon's fragile peace was ripped apart by civil war in 1975. An exhibition at Berlin's Gropius Bau takes a closer look at its creative legacy.
A Berlin exhibition explores the buzzing heyday of Beirut's arts scene in the 1960s, and how it was cut short by the darkness of the Lebanese Civil War.
Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility revisits an exhilarating chapter in global modernism in Beirut from the 1958 Lebanon crisis to 1975, the year that witnessed the outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War.