Before Arab art can be valued properly, it needs the language, references and records to be seen clearly. For Basel Dalloul, that work grew from a family legacy.
Zefta Art House invites artists and visitors to encounter South Lebanon with curiosity, rather than a fixed idea of what it represents.
Shafic Abboud spent a lifetime embracing duality. Between his Lebanese and French identity, the figurative and the abstract, intellectualism and hedonism, he built a visual language vast enough to hold the contradictions that shaped him.
In “Echoes of Existence”, Gilbert Halaby’s childhood landscapes meet Enzo Cucchi’s Italian language, the work of Lebanese modern masters, and the forests themselves.
“Don’t Get Me Wrong” proves an apt title for Nabil Nahas’s Venice Biennale installation. In our conversation with Nahas and curator Nada Ghandour, every attempt to locate a definitive beginning, ending, influence, or interpretation seems to open onto another possibility.
Shafic Abboud spent a lifetime embracing duality. Between his Lebanese and French identity, the figurative and the abstract, intellectualism and hedonism, he built a visual language vast enough to hold the contradictions that shaped him.
When Salmah Almansoori moved from Ghayathi to Abu Dhabi in 2019, the three-hour road between the two cities drew her attention to something strange. Each weekly return made her hometown look slightly less familiar…
In “Human Inc (Acending Souls)”, multidisciplinary artist Hady Sy welds binary code back into singular bodies and bends steel into forms of human intelligence.
In this conversation, Katia Nounou Boueiz, Chairman of Sotheby’s Middle East, reflects on a market looking past momentum towards context, stewardship, and cultural responsibility – and at that, works with the depth to endure across generations.
Hady Boraey met the world first through drawing. Words came later. He was three when he began making images in a house in the Egyptian Delta, with the Nile nearby and the quiet rhythm of fields, animals, and farmers around him.