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Post-blast Beirut, an El Dorado of new art galleries?

Exhibition spaces in Gemmayzeh, Mar Mikhael and area are blossoming at almost the same pace as the neighborhoods’ restaurants and bars. What’s behind this frenzy?

Post-blast Beirut, an El Dorado of new art galleries?

Art Scene gallery proprietor Rania Hammoud poses in her in Gemmayze space. (Credit DR/L’Orient-Le Jour)

BEIRUT — Surrounded by a swarm of assistants, Charbel Lahoud is king in his Chaos Art Gallery, the exhibition space he opened six months ago in Beirut, named, he said, in reference to “the Chaos of creativity.”After the chaos that the 2020 Beirut...
BEIRUT — Surrounded by a swarm of assistants, Charbel Lahoud is king in his Chaos Art Gallery, the exhibition space he opened six months ago in Beirut, named, he said, in reference to “the Chaos of creativity.”After the chaos that the 2020 Beirut...