Etel Adnan (1925-2021)

On Saturday 22 and Sunday 23, the Centre Pompidou-Metz will pay homage to Etel Adnan, the poet, writer and artist who died in November 2021. The idea for the exhibition “Writing is Drawing” was initiated by Adnan before her death and will explore the proximity of writing to the practice of drawing.

Curator of the Pinault Collection Jean-Marie Gallais sets out to create a mise en abyme of the Villa Carmignac’s island setting. Nestled on the island of Porquerolles, the exhibition shows how artists sometimes keep reality at a distance to better explore their inner worlds. More than eighty works - the majority...

We talked to Brett Gorvy, the co-founder of Lévy Gorvy, former Christie’s Chairman, and Instagram sensation, about the changing horizons of today’s art market, the gallery’s forward thinking approach with pop-ups, artists and new technologies, and his own collecting habits.

Studying philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris, the influential Lebanese-American writer wrote a seminal novel on the Lebanese civil war. Gaining international acclaim as a visual artist after her contribution to Kassel’s 2012 Documenta 13, she currently has an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The first fair to take place in the new fall season crush, Art Paris attracted new major galleries while maintaining an intermediate level.

Sales were slow but steady at the 39th edition of this refreshing fair focusing on Spain and Latin America.

Danish Siddiqui had been covering fighting in Afghanistan. The Reuters photographer and colleagues Adnan Abidi, Sanna Irshad Mattoo and Amit Dave won for Feature Photography for their coverage of COVID-19 in India. The L.A. Times’ Marcus Yam won for Breaking News Photography for work on the fall of Kabul. (AP)

To mark the publication of his autobiography, we talked to the artistic director of London’s Serpentine Galleries about his work, the role artists play in his life and his views on the current art market model.

There is nothing quite like the Arles cultural center, an offshoot of the Zurich-based foundation created by philanthropist Maja Hoffmann. Its emblem is the tower designed by Frank Gehry, which acts as both an exhibition venue and a space for artistic and scientific work.

On the occasion of the exhibition devoted to Brazilian modernists at the Chastel-Maréchal gallery, we look back at this generation of artists who mingled European influences with local resources.