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When Statues Speak

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The Beirut National Museum sits on the site of a decades-old demarcation boundary that once cleaved the city into two: East and West Beirut. This is a line that was at once metaphysical and political, marking the passage between two worlds during the bloodiest years of the Lebanese Civil War. At the height of the fighting in the late 1970s, militia members and snipers were known to lurk around the museum’s pockmarked grounds; kidnappings and assassinations were not uncommon in its environs.
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Art Inside his Parisian studio, Ali Cherri dreams up wide-ranging meditations on history, narrative, and political trauma through his stirring sculptures and films. The Beirut National Museum sits on the site of a decades-old demarcation boundary that once cleaved the city into two: East and West Beirut. This is a line that was at once metaphysical and political, marking the passage between two worlds during the bloodiest years of the Lebanese Civil War.
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The Mordant Observations of a Legendary Muse

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The artist was hardly alone in his fixation. Walker Evans photographed Blackwood more than a hundred times, capturing her progression from nymphlike youth to haggard middle age.
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