The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University presents Partisans of the Nude: An Arab Genre Art in The Era Of Contest, 1920–1960, the first comprehensive US museum survey of nude genre art by artists in the Middle East and North African region that were formerly Ottoman but not-yet-Arab.
DUBAI: When Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath began planning their curation of the Lyon Biennale, in March 2020, the world was just waking up to the dangers of COVID-19. Naturally, the disruption and damage of the pandemic ended up having a major influence not just logistically (it was delayed for a year), but thematically. Bardaouil tells Arab News that the conversations he
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.