‘The kids stare at me with empty eyes. They put their planks aside and approach me carefully, pointing their long sticks like machine guns’
All posts tagged “lebanon”
Shooting the Cloud
‘Karam’s figures are sublime, mentally, ideologically, and physically transcending the socio-historical pressures of Lebanon’
Ordinary Lives
‘… This is what the people of Lebanon do. They keep going, rebuilding and restarting, no matter what keeps coming’
Beirut, I Love You
‘Lebanon was, and always will be schizophrenic’ - A review of Zena El Khalil’s memoir, ‘Beirut, I Love You’, now available in North America
All Dolled Up
Rima Chahrour of Lebanese artist collective The Freaks looks at the use of dolls in the works of Zena El Khalil and Mohammad Rawas
Postcards from the Edge
A discussion of art from the ‘periphery’, with a focus on the Lebanese and Moroccan works on display at the San Francisco MoMA’s ‘Six Lines of Flight’ exhibition
Beirut, Remixed
A look at the life and works of iconic Lebanese photographer-cum-renaissance man Joe Kesrouani, Beirut’s man of magic
Mamnou!
A review of the recent rise in censorship in Lebanon, its implications for artists, and - interestingly enough - its positive aspects