"Femmes à l’exposition," Omar Onsi, 1932. (© Musée Nicolas Ibrahim Sursock)
BEIRUT — “It is an apocalypse that has been ongoing for some time,” Etel Adnan tells the camera, “and, more and more, it is engulfing the rest of the world. Lebanon is becoming the prototype of the world that awaits us.”Adnan (1925-2021) was discussing “The Arab Apocalypse,” the book-length poem she published in French in 1980. Speaking in the wake of the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut Port blast, she somehow captured the foresight of her work. More from Jim Marfa’ Projects gallery turns 10 The artist, poet, and essayist is one of the striking voices arising from Ilana Navaro’s documentary “From Istanbul to Cairo, a Thousand Ways of Being Modern.” Co-written with Karim Miské, the film explores how late-Ottoman artists and those in four Ottoman successor states responded to European modernity, imperialist bullying, or artistic mentorship, and...
BEIRUT — “It is an apocalypse that has been ongoing for some time,” Etel Adnan tells the camera, “and, more and more, it is engulfing the rest of the world. Lebanon is becoming the prototype of the world that awaits us.”Adnan (1925-2021) was discussing “The Arab Apocalypse,” the book-length poem she published in French in 1980. Speaking in the wake of the Aug. 4, 2020, Beirut Port blast, she somehow captured the foresight of her work. More from Jim Marfa’ Projects gallery turns 10 The artist, poet, and essayist is one of the striking voices arising from Ilana Navaro’s documentary “From Istanbul to Cairo, a Thousand Ways of Being Modern.” Co-written with Karim Miské, the film explores how late-Ottoman artists and those in four Ottoman successor states responded to European modernity, imperialist bullying, or...
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