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In 2007, Sandra Dagher curated with Saleh Barakat, owner of Agial Art Gallery in Beirut, the first Lebanese Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. [3] In 2011, New York City's New Museum hosted “Museum as Hub: Beirut Art Center” a project that includes an exhibition, the presentation of Beirut Art Center’s Médiathèque, and a series of events. [4]
Jumana al-Husseini (b. 1932) moved to Beirut with her family after their home in the outskirts of Jerusalem was hit by an Israeli bomb in 1948. [1] The Husseinis had previously fled to Beirut when Jumana's grandfather, Jamal al-Husseini, the Palestinian nationalist and founder of the Palestine Arab Party was exiled by the British following the Arab revolt of 1936–39 in Palestine.
The royal necropolis of Byblos is a group of nine Bronze Age underground shaft and chamber tombs housing the sarcophagi of several kings of the city. Byblos (modern Jbeil) is a coastal city in Lebanon, and one of the oldest continuously populated cities in the world.
This is a list of artists who were born in the Vietnam or whose artworks are closely associated with that country.. Artists are listed by field of study and then by family name in alphabetical order (review Vietnamese naming customs as the family name will display in the first name field, with exceptions including people of the diaspora), and they may be listed more than once on the list if ...
Beirut was an art initiative and exhibition space founded by Sarah Rifky and Jens Maier Rothe as a space that considers institution building as a curatorial act. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The institution’s activities were centered around hosting artists, artworks, research projects and other institutions engaging with similar questions of politics, economy ...
Beirut (/ b eɪ ˈ r uː t / ⓘ, bay-ROOT; [4] Arabic: بيروت, romanized: Bayrūt ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.As of 2014, Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, just under half of Lebanon's population, [5] which makes it the fourth-largest city in the Levant region and the sixteenth-largest in the Arab world.
The Beirut Art Residency was founded in 2015 by Amar A. Zahr. It offers a two-month residency programme to as many as four artists at a time. The artist-in-residence program aims to stimulate creativity through interaction with the local environment, artists and cultural institutions, and seeks to foster cross-cultural relations between participants and the local artistic community in Beirut. [1]
Khoury was born on August 19, 1968, in Beirut, Lebanon. His father, Khalil Khoury, was a Lebanese architect and designer who worked with exposed concrete, designing projects such as the Mont La Salle School Campus, the Municipal Stadium of Jounieh and the Interdesign Showroom building.