Ten Artworks We Loved from the Inaugural 2026 Art Basel Qatar

The projects and moments that stood out

Lebanese Director Fadi Syriani Asks: After “All This Death”, What Comes Next?

The 16-minute stop motion animated short film follows Vladimir, an elderly Beirut resident through his ritual of obsessively reading obituaries and attending strangers’ funerals daily

The Self and the Corporate Agenda Hiding Behind the Mirror

Self-acceptance, self-help, self-actualisation, self-care, self-esteem, self-love, self-made, self-motivation, self-preservation, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficient, self-stimulation, self-worth… The self is anti-human.

Exile as a Rite of Passage

Exile is no longer rupture but genesis – the shared rite of passage through which artists rebuild meaning, memory, and belonging

Jaden Smith Rewrites the Red Sole Rulebook With His Debut Christian Louboutin Collection

Paint the town red

Juliet Makhlouf’s Ancestry Exhibition Opens at Oblong Gallery, Dubai

Explore heritage, collective memory, and Arab cultural legacy through the lens of Syrian artist Juliet Makhlouf in a powerful new exhibition

Is It Really “Just A Phase”?

We ask and the internet answers

The House That Bady Built

For French-Syrian artist Bady Dalloul, a house is country unto itself. Within his practice, he invites us to cross the threshold into a universe of personal memories, imagined stories, and the small empires he has been building since his childhood summers in Damascus