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Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival at the Guggenheim

Etel Adnan’s Bittersweet Arrival on the Guggenheim

“Went to the moon … Planet earth is outdated information,” Etel Adnan writes in her 2011 essay “The Cost for Love We Are Not Willing to Pay.” “It’s the home we’re discarding. We positively don’t love her.” Adnan’s fantasy of escaping this planet’s gravity reverberates now with further premonitory imaginative and prescient, but it surely’s

Etel Adnan, Lebanese American Author and Artist, Dies at 96

Etel Adnan, Lebanese American Creator and Artist, Dies at 96

Etel Adnan was born on Feb. 24, 1925, in Beirut, Lebanon. Her father, Assaf Kadri, a Syrian born in Damascus, was a retired high-ranking official within the Ottoman military and a former classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Republic of Turkey. Her mom, Rosa Kadri, grew up within the metropolis of