In October 2020, the five-year research project “Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943” will begin. The project will investigate the...
By Nadia von Maltzahn and Monique Bellan The Art Salon in the Arab Region: Politics of Taste Making discusses the emergence and role of the art salon in the Arab...
This article is part of the TRAFO series “Emerging Topics. Insights from ‘Behind the Scenes’”.Today, we put the spotlight on the conference “Contextualising the Art Salon in the Arab Region”,...
Nadia von Maltzahn joined the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) in 2013, having previously organized the international conference Inverted Worlds: Congress on Cultural Motion in the Arab Region for the OIB in...
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