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120 Main News: Beirut Explosion Devastates City and Cultural Community
By The Editors
The permanent exhibition on the second floor of the Sursock Museum was severely damaged in the blast. Courtesy the Sursock Museum, Beirut.
The blast in Beirut’s port just after 6pm on August 4 destroyed huge swathes of the city and crippled the local art scene. Letitia Gallery’s director, Gaia Foudolian, and architect Jean-Marc Bonfils, a professor at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, were killed in the explosion.
