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Galerie Tanit hosts two parallel exhibitions that invite viewers into distinct yet overlapping visual worlds. Sorry for Interrupting by Jacques Vartabedian and Flow by Joumana Jamhouri unfold across the gallery’s rooms, each staging a meditation on fragmentation, memory, and the…
The Dalloul Artist Collective launches its curatorial programme with The Escape to Joy, a solo exhibition dedicated to the Lebanese painter Fawzi Baalbaki. On view at Stone Gardens – a landmark building by architect Lina Ghotmeh – the exhibition situates…
Voices from Gaza showcases the compelling work of Laila Shawa, an artist whose practice bore witness to the violence, erasure, and steadfast spirit of her homeland. Born in Gaza, Shawa spent decades transforming the pain of occupation into urgent visual…
The Santa Barbara Museum of Art announces Vian Sora: Outerworlds, the first solo museum exhibition in the United States dedicated to the Baghdad-born, Louisville-based painter. The exhibition marks a pivotal moment in Sora’s career, situating her dynamic, multi-layered abstractions within…
Galerie Lilia Ben Salah hosts Présences Croisées – Crossed Presences, a group exhibition tracing the entangled trajectories of seven women artists whose practices span generations and geographies. Anchored in the gallery’s ongoing curatorial engagement with Arab artistic histories, the exhibition…
Marking its first summer exhibition, Ishara Art Foundation presents No Trespassing, curated by Priyanka Mehra. Bringing the street into the white cube, the show assembles six artists from the UAE and South Asia whose practices reflect the complexity of urban…
As the Sun Appears from Beyond: Twenty Years of the Al Burda Award makes its North American debut at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, following its launch at the Louvre Abu Dhabi in December 2024. Presented in collaboration with…
Antevasin: the one who sits at the border of two worlds marks Richi Bhatia’s first solo exhibition at Gallery Isabelle, presenting a body of work that moves between drawing, performance, object-making, food interventions, and assemblage. Working across India and the…
As Syria navigates an uncharted chapter in its history, Ayyam Gallery marks its 20th anniversary with Wavering Hope, a summer collective that brings together thirteen artists whose practices have long borne witness to the nation’s unraveling and its quiet refusals…
Sunrise at the Vortex, Nima Nabavi’s second solo exhibition at The Third Line gallery, presents a body of work developed between 2022 and 2025, tracing the artist’s evolving engagement with geometry, introspection, and the practice of making. Comprising pieces created…