A view of the facade of the Sursock Museum. (Credit: Michel Sayegh/OLJ)
Taking the artworks off the walls, putting them in a safe place, suspending exhibition programs and closing the doors to visitors until better days come. This is a precautionary practice that art gallery owners and museum directors have been accustomed to.In the past five years, devastating events have followed one another, and have taken their toll on all areas of activities across the country, starting with the arts and culture sector, deemed less essential in times of difficulties. They include the uprising and ransacking carried out by infiltrators in the 2019 protests, the lockdowns due to COVID-19, the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut in 2020, and most recently the ongoing all-out war against Lebanon. Read more And in the meantime, what are the cultural institutes doing in Lebanon? “Once again, we find ourselves...
Taking the artworks off the walls, putting them in a safe place, suspending exhibition programs and closing the doors to visitors until better days come. This is a precautionary practice that art gallery owners and museum directors have been accustomed to.In the past five years, devastating events have followed one another, and have taken their toll on all areas of activities across the country, starting with the arts and culture sector, deemed less essential in times of difficulties. They include the uprising and ransacking carried out by infiltrators in the 2019 protests, the lockdowns due to COVID-19, the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut in 2020, and most recently the ongoing all-out war against Lebanon. Read more And in the meantime, what are the cultural institutes doing in Lebanon? “Once again, we find...
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