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A new solo exhibition investigates the political weight of sound, from electromagnetic interference to the sonic aftermath of war.

Sfeir-Semler Gallery has reopened one of their two Beirut spaces, located in the Karantina neighbourhood in the northeast of Beirut, Lebanon.

鈥淎nother exhibition at another foreboding historical moment鈥� says the invitation card to Walid Raad鈥檚 exhibitions at Sfeir-Semler galleries in Karantina and Downtown.

The Return, an exhibition by Rayyane Tabet on view at Sfeir-Semler Gallery in Beirut, May 4鈥揂ugust 16, 2023.

I won鈥檛 bother you with talk about how obscenely decadent and out of touch the Frieze art fair is. It鈥檚 all been said already.

The 15th edition of Art Dubai (11鈥�13 March 2022) includes over 100 galleries from 40 countries.

Over the past two years, the pandemic has upended the calendar for art fairs. 

Owing to travel restrictions, the fair鈥檚 gallery list is predominantly from the Global South

Walid Raad is among several artists leading fundraisers for Beirut.

The massive explosion in the Beirut port just after 6pm on August 4 killed more than 135 people, injured many thousands, and wrecked buildings across the city.

A pair of explosions yesterday at the Port of Beirut wreaked destruction on Lebanon鈥檚 capital, killing more than one hundred people and leaving over five thousand injured, overwhelming hospitals already struggling due to the pandemic.

After two explosions shook Beirut鈥檚 waterfront neighborhoods yesterday, the city and its citizens are assessing the damage wrought by the blasts, which occurred at the country鈥檚 main port and killed more than 100 people, according to estimates released on Wednesday.

Art museums and galleries across Beirut have closed their doors in solidarity with the more than two million people protesting the government鈥檚 mishandling of the country鈥檚 deepening economic crisis.

Mounira al-Solh resists homogenizing narratives about Arab women in her work鈥檚 specificity and its rejection of expected characters or sensationalized accounts.

This is an imaginary landscape crafted by humans, but the urban dweller will recognize it as scarily quotidian.