This is Beirut, 12/06 14:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
London Museum Exhibition Art Culture
Imagine being able to visit a museum and examine up close thousand-year-old pottery, revel alone in jewelry from centuries past, or peer inside a Versace bag. Now London's V&A has launched a revolutionary new exhibition space, where visitors can choose from some 250,000 objects, order something they want to spend time looking at, and have it ...
This is Beirut, 08/06 14:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Miró Spain Barcelona Museum Exhibition Culture
A major cultural institution, the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a rich lineup of exhibitions, concerts, and special events paying tribute to the prolific Catalan artist. The festivities, taking place throughout the year under the slogan “For the People of Tomorrow,” begin Thursday with the opening ...
This is Beirut, 30/05 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
From a delicate 13th-century clay figure to self-portraits by photographer Samuel Fosso, New York's Metropolitan Museum reopens its African art collection on Saturday, exploring the "complexity" of the past and looking to the present. After a four-year renovation with a $70 million price tag, the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing comes ...
This is Beirut, 11/04 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Museum Exhibition Art Culture Buckingham Palace
Elegance, opulence, and hedonism—an exceptional exhibition in London retraces the Edwardian era before World War I through the lives of Queen Alexandra and King Edward VII, during a time of great transformation. The exhibition, The Edwardians: Age of Elegance, opens Friday at Buckingham Palace and runs through November 23. It brings together ...
This is Beirut, 08/04 17:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
National Gallery UK Exhibition Museum Art Culture
A lucky visitor will soon become the first ever to sleep overnight at Britain's National Gallery, after the 200-year-old museum launched a competition on Monday to mark the reopening of a wing housing celebrated European paintings. When the Sainsbury Wing reopens after a two-year refurbishment on May 10, the overnight guest — to be picked at ...
This is Beirut, 05/04 10:50 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Museum Art Culture Kylian Mbappe
France superstar Kylian Mbappe received one of the greatest honors that England can bestow upon a sportsman from a rival nation on Friday — a lifelike waxwork at London's Madame Tussauds museum. The statue shows the 2018 World Cup winner striking a familiar pose — arms crossed and wearing France's white away jersey from last summer's European ...
This is Beirut, 02/04 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Red Cross Red Crescent Museum Blind
"They are our eyes," said Karin happily after releasing the arm of one of the specialised "image whisperers" guiding her and other blind people around Geneva's Red Cross museum. The museum has been offering its new image prompter service to the visually impaired since late last year. Karin, who did not want to give her ...
This is Beirut, 08/03 13:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Painting Art Culture London Museum Book
Gaudy colors, messy brushwork, even a set of missing toes—the debate about the authenticity of Rubens’s Samson and Delilah will be reignited next week with the release of a book alleging that the painting hanging in London’s National Gallery is actually a copy. The work by the 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens was purchased by ...
Maria Chami, 07/03 14:30 - Reading : less than a minute
The Grand Egyptian Museum, located near the pyramids of Giza, is finally opening its doors after more than 20 years of construction. This museum, the largest in the world dedicated to a single civilization, will showcase 100,000 ancient artifacts, including the treasures of Tutankhamun. Delayed multiple times due to political and economic crises ...
This is Beirut, 07/03 12:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Iran Teheran Art Contemporary Art Culture Museum
Hidden behind imposing brick walls in the heart of Tehran, a renovated industrial cellar where decades ago Iranian beer was made has been transformed into a hub for contemporary art. The ambitious restoration of the derelict Argo factory has made it "one of the most beautiful buildings in Tehran," said architect Nazanin Amirian, visiting the ...
Bélinda Ibrahim, 28/02 17:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)
Louvre Museum Collection Icons Christianism Lebanon
The extraordinary journey of the Abou Adal collection began in the early 1950s, in a Lebanon then regarded as the “Switzerland of the Middle East.” Georges Abou Adal, driven by a curiosity for Eastern sacred art, acquired his first icons in 1952. What started as a personal interest quickly turned into a passionate quest to preserve and ...
This is Beirut, 11/02 14:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A new museum of laughter is offering to put people through the spinner to wash away the negativity of modern life. Visitors to the HaHaHouse in the Croatian capital, Zagreb, are blasted with a puff of white smoke once they step inside to blow away their worries before climbing into a "giant washing machine." The "centrifuge of life" then whips ...