Art & Culture

- Art and culture stories exploring artists, exhibitions, ideas and creative movements across the MENA and beyond.
- Art & Culture
- From Paul Guiragossian to Alfred Basbous: Lebanon Through the Eyes of Its Artists
- Art & Culture
Marking the centenary of Paul Guiragossian’s birth, Bassam Freiha Art Foundation in Abu Dhabi presents an exhibition season celebrating Lebanon...
- At MENART Fair 2026, Artists Reconsider the Meaning of Home
- Art & Culture
For its seventh edition, MENART Fair brings together thirty-four galleries from eighteen countries around the question “Where Is Home?”. Through...
- At Art Basel Paris 2026, Alice Diop Asks Who Gets to Be Seen
- Art & Culture
Through Geste de Consolation, commissioned by Miu Miu, Alice Diop invites us to reconsider how Black women have been represented...
- Boucheron Honours Emirati Artist Maitha Abdalla and Her Personal Vision of Home
- Art & Culture
At the seventh edition of MENART, the Emirati artist receives the inaugural Coup de Cœur Boucheron for her bronze sculpture...
- A7 Exclusive: Through Pattern and Script, Nadine Kanso and Omar Al Gurg Reimagine Heritage
- Art & Culture
Taking part in Downtown Design 2026 in collaboration with Iwan Maktabi, the two designers present rug designs inspired by personal...
- PAD London: From Beirut and the Gulf to Mayfair
- Art & Culture
Through Lebanon’s PIK’D and the UAE’s Booroom, the fair offers a look at what galleries from the region bring to...
- Valentino SS27 and the Lebanese-American Idea of the Antilibrary
- Art & Culture
From Nassim Nicholas Taleb's antilibrary to Alessandro Michele's Spring/Summer 2027 collection, Valentino opens a conversation about unread books, imagined lives...
- Art Beyond the Museum: How Hotels Connect Travellers with Art, Design and Culture
- Art & Culture
From Lin Fanglu’s textile installation in Istanbul and Vanessa Noel’s shoe exhibition in Palermo to Kandinsky, literature and jazz, five...
- From Saudi Modernism to Moroccan Abstraction: The MENA Artists to See at Frieze 2026
- Art & Culture
As Frieze London and Frieze Masters open in Regent’s Park, early El-Salahi paintings, Saudi pioneers and a rare presentation of...
- Dana Hourani on New Single Badkon Shi? and All the Things Left Unsaid
- Art & Culture
Dana Hourani’s new song, “Badkon Shi?”, feels deeply intimate and close to the heart. It is personal to the Lebanese...
- The Minute You Land in New York City, You Tune Into Your Identity
- Art & Culture
Lebanese photographer Maria Sakr on nurturing nostalgia within her transition to New York City, crying through Lana Daher's Do You...
- New York’s MENA Cultural Landscape Ahead of NYFW SS27
- Art & Culture
From the Met's tilework to a Brooklyn dance floor, New York offers a wider look at the cultural influences and...

A7 Magazine

Art and culture stories exploring artists, exhibitions, ideas and creative movements across the MENA and beyond.

From Paul Guiragossian to Alfred Basbous: Lebanon Through the Eyes of Its Artists

Marking the centenary of Paul Guiragossian’s birth, Bassam Freiha Art Foundation in Abu Dhabi presents an exhibition season celebrating Lebanon...

At MENART Fair 2026, Artists Reconsider the Meaning of Home

For its seventh edition, MENART Fair brings together thirty-four galleries from eighteen countries around the question “Where Is Home?”. Through...

At Art Basel Paris 2026, Alice Diop Asks Who Gets to Be Seen

Through Geste de Consolation, commissioned by Miu Miu, Alice Diop invites us to reconsider how Black women have been represented...

Boucheron Honours Emirati Artist Maitha Abdalla and Her Personal Vision of Home

At the seventh edition of MENART, the Emirati artist receives the inaugural Coup de Cœur Boucheron for her bronze sculpture...

A7 Exclusive: Through Pattern and Script, Nadine Kanso and Omar Al Gurg Reimagine Heritage

Taking part in Downtown Design 2026 in collaboration with Iwan Maktabi, the two designers present rug designs inspired by personal...

PAD London: From Beirut and the Gulf to Mayfair

Through Lebanon’s PIK’D and the UAE’s Booroom, the fair offers a look at what galleries from the region bring to...

Valentino SS27 and the Lebanese-American Idea of the Antilibrary

From Nassim Nicholas Taleb's antilibrary to Alessandro Michele's Spring/Summer 2027 collection, Valentino opens a conversation about unread books, imagined lives...

Art Beyond the Museum: How Hotels Connect Travellers with Art, Design and Culture

From Lin Fanglu’s textile installation in Istanbul and Vanessa Noel’s shoe exhibition in Palermo to Kandinsky, literature and jazz, five...

From Saudi Modernism to Moroccan Abstraction: The MENA Artists to See at Frieze 2026

As Frieze London and Frieze Masters open in Regent’s Park, early El-Salahi paintings, Saudi pioneers and a rare presentation of...

Dana Hourani on New Single Badkon Shi? and All the Things Left Unsaid

Dana Hourani’s new song, “Badkon Shi?”, feels deeply intimate and close to the heart. It is personal to the Lebanese...

The Minute You Land in New York City, You Tune Into Your Identity

Lebanese photographer Maria Sakr on nurturing nostalgia within her transition to New York City, crying through Lana Daher's Do You...

New York’s MENA Cultural Landscape Ahead of NYFW SS27

From the Met's tilework to a Brooklyn dance floor, New York offers a wider look at the cultural influences and...