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“iCloud” by Julie Bou Farah on View at Janine Rubeiz Gallery

This is Beirut 04/12 18:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Julie Bou Farah Janine Rubeiz Gallery Exhibition Paintings Lebanon

With “iCloud,” Julie Bou Farah transforms the gallery into a space where memory takes on tangible form, navigating between presence and absence, gentleness and pain, reverie and reality. Rooted in childhood and imagination, her pictorial world offers a sensory re-reading of memory, intimacy, and the passage of time. Describing her approach, ...

From Tea to Tango: Liverpool Seniors Dance Away Loneliness

This is Beirut 04/12 16:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Retirement Dance Frienship Community Britain Culture

All gloom was left outside as pensioners bustled into a room in Liverpool's centuries-old town hall for a tea dance, a lively antidote to getting older in Britain. "Come to tea dances and avoid the NHS!" joked Davina Woods, 71, referring to the country's creaking health system and the awareness the retirees have that as they age, they will likely ...

Kate Winslet Directs First Film, 'Goodbye June', Written by Her Son

This is Beirut 04/12 14:10 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Film Kate Winslet Britain Culture

Oscar-winning British actress Kate Winslet said she was "so proud" of herself for directing her first film, Goodbye June, and would "love to do more." Speaking at the Christmas drama's world premiere in London on Wednesday, the 50-year-old Winslet, who also acts in the film, said she found the experience of directing "incredibly rewarding." “I ...

Doctor Jailed for Supplying Ketamine to ‘Friends’ Star Matthew Perry

This is Beirut 04/12 13:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Entertainment Matthew Perry Justice US Culture

A doctor who supplied Friends star Matthew Perry with ketamine in the months before he fatally overdosed, musing to a fellow physician over "how much this moron will pay" for the drug, was jailed in California on Wednesday. Salvador Plasencia, 44, is the first of five people to face justice over Perry's 2023 death in the hot tub of his Los ...

‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Leads Spirit Awards Nominations

This is Beirut 04/12 11:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Film Award Spirit US Culture

Biopic Peter Hujar's Day on Wednesday topped the nominations for the Spirit Awards, which also saw singer SZA given a nod for her debut film role. The awards honor lower budget movies and are among the first significant pre-Oscars galas to unveil their shortlists. Peter Hujar's Day, which premiered at Sundance this year, bagged five nods, ...

ExplainerThe Gentle Dictatorship of the Socio-Economic

David Sahyoun 03/12 18:00 - Reading : 6 minute(s)

Psychoanalysis Socio-Economic Dictatorship

Domination does not always present itself through harshness. Some forms advance gently, not through coercion but through the pull of seduction. They show no signs of authoritarian rule and present themselves instead as paths that promise freedom. The current socio-economic order belongs to this quiet family of tyrannies. It draws individuals into ...

Fabergé’s Winter Egg Sets New Auction Record at £22.9 Million at Christie’s

This is Beirut 03/12 16:55 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Art Auction Record Faberge Winter Egg Russian Treasures Britain Culture

Fabergé's The Winter Egg, considered one of his most beautiful creations, sold for nearly £23 million ($30 million) at auction Tuesday in London, smashing the sales record for the legendary jeweler of Imperial Russia. It is the third time the delicate bejeweled egg, which went under the hammer at Christie's auction house, has ...

Asterix in Germany: France’s Irrepressible Gaul to Conquer Neighbor

This is Beirut 02/12 17:30 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Leisure Cartoon Asterix France Germany Culture

A theme park based on the beloved French comic strip series Asterix is to open in Germany, the first time the adventures of the pugnacious Gaul are to be the focus of an attraction outside France, its operator said on Tuesday. An existing theme park called Belantis outside the east German city of Leipzig is to morph into an Asterix theme park by ...

Netflix Targets Warner Bros Discovery in Major Hollywood Shake-Up

This is Beirut 02/12 15:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Entertainment Netflix Warner Bros Discovery Film US Culture

Streaming giant Netflix has made a mostly cash offer to buy TV and film group Warner Bros Discovery as the storied yet debt-laden Hollywood studio presses on with a sale that could remake the US media landscape, a report said Monday. According to Bloomberg, Netflix joined Paramount Skydance and Comcast, the owner of NBCUniversal, in a second ...

Iranian Filmmaker Jafar Panahi Sentenced in Absentia Amid Cannes Triumph

This is Beirut 02/12 13:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Film Jafar Panahi Justice Iran Culture

Iran has sentenced Palme d'Or-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi in absentia to one year in prison and a travel ban over "propaganda activities" against the country, his lawyer told AFP on Monday. The sentence includes a two-year travel ban and prohibition of Panahi from membership in any political or social groups, lawyer Mostafa Nili told AFP, ...

Historic Pont Neuf Set to Become Artist JR’s Latest Monumental Installation

This is Beirut 02/12 10:00 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Art Pont Neuf Installation JR street-artist France Culture

French artist JR, who made his way from tagging graffiti on the street to being one of the most recognizable figures on the country's art scene, has told AFP how he plans to turn the oldest bridge in Paris into an "immersive cave" for his latest project. Once hailed as the "French Banksy" after the secretive British street artist, JR has become ...

From Porcelain to Tweed, EU Opens Protected Label to Crafts

This is Beirut 01/12 18:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Europe European Union Porcelain Tweed Culture

Traditional crafts, from French Limoges porcelain to Irish Donegal tweed, became entitled to EU protected status as of Monday, placing them on par with agricultural products such as Champagne and Parma ham. Europe’s glassblowers, potters, jewellers, and other artisans will now be able to register their product names under the bloc’s new ...