(A.i.R) Dubai Calls Emirati Artists to Join!

Art Dubai, in partnership with Dubai Culture and Arts Authority, Delfina Foundation and Tashkeel, has launched the second edition of Artist-in-Residence (A.i.R) Dubai: for the 2013 programme, three Emirati artists and an international curator will be selected via an Open Call (deadline for applications: September 16). The residencies, taking place January-March 2013, also include three…

International Art Gathering & Local Boost… Welcome to Beirut!

City of cultures and art, freedom and madness, Beirut hosted for 4 days an arab and international artistic celebration where all cultural differences and geographic borders melted for the love of Art under one umbrella called Beirut Art Fair (ME.NA.SA). For the 3rd year in a row, Beirut Art Fair (BAF) 2012 brought together different…

A New Level of Arab Art in Melting Pot

On July 4th Ayyam Gallery Beirut hosted ‘Melting Pot’ a group exhibition featuring 14 artworks by five of the most promising emerging and mid-career abstract and figurative painters from Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria. this exhibition will provide an overview of the new wave of contemporary Arab painting presently produced throughout the Middle East and the Diaspora. A…

(I See You) … Acknowledge and Playfully Deny Politics!

(I See You) is a video art by The Freaks; a collaboration Lebanese artists Rima Chahrour and Michel Ayoub, a social-political 1 minute 30 second video will be shown in the VIDEO BOX of Beirut Art Fair (BAF) 2012 amoung other videos-art. “This work presents the violent and non-violent forms of political rejection from an equal…

Ayyam Gallery Trigger Viewers Curiosity & Sense of Beauty

Leading the Middle East contemporary art scene with the mission to “promote the Arab World’s dynamic cultural scene at home and abroad”,  Ayyam Gallery returns for the 3rd edition of the Beirut Art Fair with a special exhibition dedicated to prominent and promising emerging talents from Lebanon. Displaying a superior array of visually intriguing photography, video, and installation art,…