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The rebuilt historical core of the city, where Beirut began and where it was most deliberately remade. Downtown — the old Al-Balad — is Ottoman and French-mandate façades, the arcades of Rue Maarad, Nejmeh Square with its clock, the Roman baths and the Beirut Souks, all reconstructed after the civil war into a polished central district that runs down to the waterfront at Zaitunay Bay and Mina el Hosn. It carries the city's deepest archaeology and its most contested modern architecture in the same few blocks. The layers are visible. The seams show.
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The Broad commissions a fresh take on the seminal feminist work during Ono's retrospective
Artist MPA's performance of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece at Redcat revealed how collective empathy can transform a potentially violent ritual into an act of mutual care.
What the world's most famous building stunt tells you about everything it was filmed on
A film crew drilled into the world's tallest building to hang a man off the side of it. Behind that decision sits wind physics, a hundred-year-old cooling technology, a height race Dubai has quietly stepped away from, and an art scene older than the tower.
From a four-storey waterfall of pearl divers to a real 155-million-year-old dinosaur — a guide to every permanent artwork inside the world's most visited building.
Every permanent sculpture, kinetic installation and immersive district in the mall — who made them, what they mean and how to see them all in two hours.
After a six-million-dollar restoration, the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street welcomes visitors to its newly accessible rooftop terrace, offering fresh perspectives on the city's architectural heritage.
The century-old civic skyscraper's restored cupola provides a unique vantage point, while revealing the overlooked story of Hettie Anderson, the Black model who inspired its iconic Civic Fame statue.
How a row of Al Quoz warehouses became the most serious address in Gulf contemporary art — and how to navigate its galleries, foundations and programme.
Alserkal Avenue sits in Al Quoz Industrial Area 1 — a grid of concrete warehouses and marble workshops wedged between Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Khail Road — and it is, improbably, the most culturally credible square kilometre in the Gulf.
On the art world's transparency problem, the extraordinary markets the world is only beginning to discover, and why we decided to build a map.
February 2026, Doha. Msheireb Downtown — the old business district that Qatar has been quietly transforming into something between a cultural quarter and an ur…
