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ON RECENT WEEKENDS, a man has been visiting this spot by the Beirut Corniche, about a hundred yards from where fishermen catch fish in sewage-polluted waters. He sets a radio on a picnic table and plays songs by the Egyptian singer Oum Koulthoum, really loudly. People can’t pass by without noticing him. They gather to listen and take pictures with their phones, as I did. Near the sea, on the rocks, he shares with us his sorrow and joy.
Close to the water stands a house, and its belly seems to spill out into the street. This silent house, standing beautifully alone, reminds us of a time when
TO TAKE STOCK OF THE PAST YEAR, ARTFORUM ASKED AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP OF ARTISTS TO SELECT THE SINGLE IMAGE, EXHIBITION, OR EVENT THAT MOST MEMORABLY CAPTURED THEIR EYE IN 2014.
OSCAR MURILLO
KIM GORDON
LORETTA FAHRENHOLZ
Broad City is the first TV show to fully exploit the comic potential of the gentrification of our minds.
WOLFGANG TILLMANS
LAURE PROUVOST
This is an image from a book on Ferdinand Cheval’s Palais Idéal (1912). My family was recently seeking architectural inspiration for a museum that will be built when our lost granddad comes out of his conceptual tunnel. It has now been more than