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DUBAI: At a time when cultural life in France has taken a hit, a new boutique art fair showcasing works from the Middle East and North Africa will arrive on the Parisian art scene between May 27 and 30. MENART Fair will feature works from 22 galleries hailing from 13 different countries.
“In Paris, you have an art fair dedicated to Asia and Africa, but you have nothing regarding the Middle East and North Africa,” the fair’s founder Laure d’Hauteville tells Arab News. A longtime Arabophile, d’Hauteville brings a wealth of knowledge to the fair after living in Beirut for 30 years and founding one of the Lebanese capital’s leading cultural events, the Beirut Art Fair.
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.