Artscoops and Gallerease announce a Partnership to facilitate international growth of both online art platforms   Artscoops, the MENA region’s leading online art marketplace and Gallerease, a pan-European art platform, announced today a strategic partnership.   The partnership will offer access to new geographies for...

A Legacy In Progress   Nadine Begdache talks to Artscoops about her two-fold role archiving Beirut’s artistic past and promoting its future.           Beirut has long enjoyed its status as a leading hub for the arts, although competition today from other regional players is fiercer than ever before.    Domestic ups and downs...

Where Reality Meets Imagination   Margarida Mendes and Azar Mahmoudian, joint assistant curators of the 11th Gwangju Biennale, talk to Ahmad Minkara about the importance of community, context and cultural reach in their project.                   Profound and thought-provoking, the question ‘What does art do?’ is likely to...

Collectors Under the Spotlight: Mazen and Loulia Soueid    Synergy, storytelling and selection all have a part to play in creating a collection of character, Mazen and Loulia Soueid tell Ahmad Minkara.                         Among the many things that brought Mazen Soueid and Loulia Berbir together back in 2007 was a shared...

Poetic Licence The Tehran-born master craftsman Reza Lavassani talks to Artscoops about how he moves from thinking to living out his ideas through his work.                                     While poetry is undoubtedly a key source of inspiration for Reza Lavassani, the renowned Iranian artist’s definition of that genre is,...

Subtle Statements Maryam Majd, director at the Assar Art Gallery, Tehran, tells Artscoops why Iranian art’s appeal is growing by the day.                                                           With its signature storytelling style and use of subtlety to relay significant messages, there’s plenty that sets contemporary Iranian art...

Artscoops to take part among the media partners of  Contemporary Istanbul’s 11th edition                              Artscoops is teaming up with the organisers of Contemporary Istanbul (CI), Turkey’s leading international art fair, for the 2016 edition of the show in November. The online platform for the MENA region will act as...

A Window on the Region   Gallery owner Saleh Barakat talks to Ahmad Minkara about moving on, moving up and moving into a new white space.     Having just marked 25 years in the art business with the opening of a new gallery bearing his name, Saleh Barakat is no stranger to milestones.   In fact, as the gallery owner and...

A Long and Winding Road   Ahead of his new show, which opens on May 20 at the Saleh Barakat Gallery, Nabil Nahas talks early influences, Lebanese landscapes and unexpected departures of style with Ahmad Minkara.                                  A return to his native Lebanon in the 1990s after a lengthy absence would prove to...