Hala Abdallah 20/11 22:45 - Reading : less than a minute
Lebanon celebrated the 10th World Week of Italian Cuisine with masterclasses, tastings, and a celebration of shared Mediterranean flavors from 17 to 21 November. What’s your favorite Italian dish?
This is Beirut 20/11 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Christmas AI Mural Britain Culture
People in London were left baffled Wednesday by what appeared to be a botched AI-generated Christmas mural showing a Santa-like figure with a half-orange beard and revelers with disfigured faces. The display in posh Kingston upon Thames in southwest London at first glance seems to depict a jolly crowd enjoying the festive season. But closer ...
This is Beirut 20/11 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Entairtainment Auction Muppets US Culture Jim Henson
Some of Jim Henson's most memorable creations go under the hammer in California next week, with the first US auction of puppets and memorabilia from the late entertainer's decades-long career. Highlights include a pair of shoes worn by the domineering Miss Piggy in a "Muppets" movie, as well as puppets from "Fraggle Rock" and characters from the ...
This is Beirut 20/11 12:30 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Royals Princess Diana Museum Grevin Britain France Culture
The Grevin waxwork museum in Paris unveiled a new star attraction on Thursday: Princess Diana in the "revenge dress" she wore after public revelations about her then-husband, Prince Charles's, infidelity. The Grevin Museum in central Paris, similar to Madame Tussauds in London, already has models of Charles, who is now King Charles III, and his ...
Marie-Christine Tayah 20/11 11:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Fondation Cartier Contemporary Art Paris Culture Exhibition Architecture
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is turning a page and stepping into a bold future as it leaves boulevard Raspail for 2, Place du Palais-Royal. Moving into the former Louvre des antiquaires—a Haussmann-era building revived by Jean Nouvel, who also designed its previous home—the Fondation embraces a transformed vision of what an ...
This is Beirut 19/11 19:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Klimt Painting Culture Art NYC Auction
A portrait by Austrian artist Gustav Klimt fetched $236.4 million in New York on Tuesday, becoming the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction. Six bidders battled for 20 minutes over the Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer, which Klimt painted between 1914 and 1916. The piece depicts the daughter of Klimt's main patron dressed in a white ...
David Sahyoun 19/11 18:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
Psychoanalysis Orbiting Social Media Culture Relationships
Drawing from the evolving grammar of digital interfaces, we encounter the neologism orbiting. It describes the behavior of someone who cuts off all direct contact - no messages, no invitations, no meetings - yet continues to “circle around” you. They watch your stories, like your posts, track your digital movements, and occasionally publicly ...
This is Beirut 19/11 10:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Arts Nigeria Culture Boston Museum Benin
The Museum of Fine Arts in the US city of Boston has returned two of the famed Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, authorities in the West African nation said late on Monday. The move represents "the return of a huge part of Nigeria's history," Olugbile Holloway, the head of Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), said. "As much as ...
This is Beirut 18/11 17:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Film Gianfranco Rosi Italy Culture
If the regular recipe for success in the modern entertainment industry or on social media is being loud, attention-seeking, and a prolific creator of "content," Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi has carved out a career doing the exact opposite. The work of the award-winning documentary producer is everything our contemporary culture is not: slow, ...
This is Beirut 18/11 15:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Demon Slayer Cinema Culture Art
The latest film adaptation of the Demon Slayer manga franchise has become the first Japanese movie to gross more than 100 billion yen ($644 million) worldwide, its distributors said. Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba — Infinity Castle: Part 1, about sword-swishing Tanjiro Kamado's final showdown to slay demons and make his sister human again, is ...
This is Beirut 18/11 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Film Cinema Premiere NYC Culture Art
When Universal Pictures split its musical adaptation of Wicked into two films, the move was derided by some critics as a cynical — if spectacularly successful — money grab. But with Wicked: For Good out in theaters around the world this week, its stars and filmmakers say the decision has freed them up to expand the Wizard of Oz prequel ...
This is Beirut 18/11 10:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Music Johann Sebastian Bach Germany Culture
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music." The two solo organ works, written while Bach was working as an organ teacher in the town of Arnstadt in Thuringia early in his career, first caught the attention of ...