Etel Adnan

A tight retrospective at White Cube, New York, transcends and mystifies in equal measure

Almost three years on, the city’s cultural sector is slowly recovering from a devastating explosion that killed 218 people

Negar Azimi on Adnan’s sensuous intellect

 An exclusive excerpt from her forthcoming book

Renowned poet Joan Retallack reads Adnan’s poetry

Omar Berrada on the artist’s polymathic imagination

For Adnan, art and politics need not be in conflict

‘The art world is becoming more conservative’: for a new series, the Director of Castello di Rivoli speaks about her experience in the arts

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

The revolutionary power of joy, the pleasures of the small magazine and Charles Mingus’s eggnog: what to read (and drink) this weekend

Growing old and growing value 

Etel Adnan, Andrzej Steinbach, Haegue Yang, and more: a guide to the best shows in the city

Etel Adnan, Francis Alÿs, Megan Rooney and more: a guide to the best current shows in the capital

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland

A number of  long-overdue exhibitions have recently celebrated the achievements of overlooked women artists. What’s driving this wave of rediscoveries?

Journals, poems, biography and ‘direct implication’– the year in books

Alex Farquharson and Kaelen Wilson-Goldie grapple with the complexities of dOCUMENTA (13)

frieze invites artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige to write about the images that have informed their practice

In an ongoing series, frieze asks an artist, curator or writer to list the books that have influenced them