On Unbreakable Bonds Formed in Battle Luc Ferier, chairman of the Forgotten Heroes 14-19 Foundation, talks to ArtScoops about the mission he and the other team members undertook to put faces to the unknown soldiers from minority groups who fought in WW1, and the limited edition prints for sale that tell their stories When Belgian-born...

Fine Art and Family Roots Hala Schoukair is a New York-based Lebanese artist known for her intricate, detailed artwork. She is also the president of a foundation that manages and maintains the work and vision of her mother, the late renowned artist Saloua Raouda Choucair. On a recent visit to Beirut, she took time to tell ArtScoops about her...

Safety First and Foremost Zeina Kassem, founder of Roads for Life – The Talal Kassem Fund for Post Accident Care, talks to us ahead of the charity’s auction, titled When Art Saves Lives and which ArtScoops is hosting, about the valuable contribution that sales of the brilliantly designed Harley-Davidson helmets will make in supporting its...

Movement and Memories In his recent exhibition, titled Nostalgia, held at Wadi Finan Art Gallery in Jordan, the emerging local artist, Fadi Daoud, used his linear style to evoke memories of happier times that he believes will resonate with a worldwide audience   Mid-thirties seems a somewhat young age to create a show on the theme of...

Crunching the Numbers Anders Petterson, founder of art market analysis firm ArtTactic, talks to ArtScoops about the key role earmarked for new technology in shaping the industry’s future, the characteristics of contemporary MENA art and why transparency remains a topical issue    What prompted you to set up ArtTactic?  Back in...

Rising From the Ashes In his forthcoming exhibition ‘Building with Fire’, which takes place at the iconic and specially chosen L’Orient Le Jour premises, the artist Jean Boghossian examines the highly topical destruction-rebirth cycle, in his own, inimitable way   The use of a blowtorch to produce fire and smoke in art remains a...

Marking Centuries of Creativity and Connections ‘Islam and Florence, Collecting Art, from the Medici to the 20th Century’ reveals a rich relationship of trade and cultural activity that goes deeper and much further back than many realise, as Giovanni Curatola, the exhibition’s curator and professor of archaeology and history of Islamic art at...

A Relationship worth Celebrating  An exciting exhibition, titled ‘Islam and Florence, Collecting Art, from the Medici to the 20th Century’, signals that change is under way at the renowned Uffizi Gallery in Florence, as William Ward, its global media consultant, explains Given that the Uffizi Gallery in Florence houses the best...

A Fresh Take on Beirut In ‘The Shape of a City’, the British artist Nathaniel Rackowe takes urban exploration of the Lebanese capital to a whole new level An exhibition currently taking place in Beirut, titled ‘The Shape of a City’, is satisfying for the British artist Nathaniel Rackowe on many levels, not least because it brings his...