Art
Etel Adnan Captured the Light of Many Suns
An artist and poet who traversed multiple cultures, Adnan’s creations are alive with both multiplicity and instability.
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News
Lebanese-American Artist Etel Adnan Honored With Google Doodle
The poet, writer, and abstract painter who inspired a generation died in 2021 at the age of 96.
Opinion
Etel Adnan’s Mountain of Love
“You left us with an invitation to love and live harder, to be one with nature and the cosmos, and to commit to the struggle holistically,” writes Shirine Saad in a letter to the late Lebanese-American painter and poet.
Art
The Art World's Tainted Love for "Discovering" Artists: The Case of Etel Adnan
There isn’t enough discussion about the institutional structures that led to the exclusion of underrepresented artists from art history in the first place.
Art
Etel Adnan Reflects on Aging With Gentle Hues
A sense of longing pervades Seasons, which opened at Galerie Lelong just as New York City reached peak autumn foliage.
Art
Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby’s Poetic (and Funny) Email Exchanges
Here’s a sneak peek of Oracular Transmissions, a new book collecting three collaborations between these two artists.
Books
Etel Adnan, the Eternal Voyager, Captured in a New Biography
Author Kaelen Wilson-Goldie reveals the radical power of abstract painter Etel Adnan’s life and work in a new book.
Art
Painting According to Art Basel Miami Beach
At Art Basel Miami Beach, if you only look at the art, it’s an affair worth the trip, because if you want to see the newest art made in Saint Petersburg, Vienna, Barcelona, or Berlin, it’s here.
Books
Etel Adnan: Philosophy at Night
Lebanese-American artist, philosopher, and poet Etel Adnan’s recent publication, Night, is in equal measure a series of meditations on intersubjectivity and spirituality, and a dialogue between prose poetry and short verse.
Art
Etel Adnan’s Vibrant, Visual Poems
LONDON — “Colorists are epic poets,” said Charles Baudelaire, and here at the Serpentine Gallery we have both: a painter of abstract landscapes and a poet, not to mention activist, scribe, and filmmaker.
Art
Lively Artworks That Make Room for the Mind
There is this one particular color of paint that appears in many of the paintings by Etel Adnan on view right now at Galerie Lelong in New York.
Art
Texting at the Whitney Biennial
Adam Weinberg, the director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, was candid in his opening day remarks when he commented that the Biennial had in the past been thought of — or was criticized for not being — a representative snapshot of American art.