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ETEL ADNAN — SEASONS

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Yes. The shifting, after the return of the tide, and my own. A question rushes out of the stillness, and then advances an inch at a time: has this day ever been before, or has it risen from the shallows, from a line, a sound?

When we name things simply, with words preceding their meaning, a cosmic narration takes place. Does the discovery of origins remove the dust? The horizon’s shimmering slows down all other perceptions. It reminds me of a childhood of emptiness which seems to have taken me near the beginnings of space and time… — Etel Adnan*

ETEL ADNAN—SEASONS brings together new wool tapestries, leporellos, and paintings by the artist. These visual poems by the renowned colorist are on view in Manhattan in conjunction with the publication of Adnan’s new book Shifting the Silence.

See link below for details.

ETEL ADNAN—SEASONS

Through December 23.

Galerie Lelong & Co

528 West 26th Street, New York City.

See Lynne Tillman on Etel Adnan.

*Etel Adnan, Shifting the Silence (Brooklyn: Nightboat Books, 2020). Text © Etel Adnan, courtesy of the author and the publisher.

Etel Adnan, Seasons, Galerie Lelong & Co., October 29, 2020–December 23, 2020, from top: Liberté, 2017–18, wool tapestry; Terre de Feu, 2018, wool carpet; Planète 16, 2020, oil on canvas; Planète 17, 2020, oil on canvas; L’Olivier, 2019, wool tapestry; Danse Nocturne, 2019, wool tapestry; Planète 12, 2020, oil on canvas; Planète 8, 2019, oil on canvas; Au matin, 2017, wool tapestry. Images © Etel Adnan, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Lelong & Co.

WHAT IT MEANS TO WRITE ABOUT ART

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Join Jarrett Earnest and Lynne Tillman for a NY Art Book Fair talk celebrating the publication of Earnest’s WHAT IT MEANS TO WRITE ABOUT ART—INTERVIEWS WITH ART CRITICS, presented by David Zwirner Books.

 

JARRETT EARNEST and LYNNE TILLMAN in conversation

WHAT IT MEANS TO WRITE ABOUT ART

Sunday, September 23, at 1 pm.

NY ART BOOK FAIR

Thursday through Sunday, September 20, 21, 22, and 23.

MoMA P.S.1

22–25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, Queens.

Jarrett Earnest, Paul Chaat Smith, and Peter Schjeldahl at Strand.

Jarrett Earnest.

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG CRITIC

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“I always believed up to that point [1981] that there should be some radical separation between self and work—a separation that of course was theorized. I don’t totally understand this anymore. I don’t completely know why or how this was the case.

“I think my work now is involved in a continual self-questioning that isn’t a kind of existentialist ‘who am I’ questioning, but an inquiry into the self as constructed and positioned, which necessarily gives the work an air of intellectual intimacy… Many people think that the texts are in fact products of a falsely constructed authoritative voice. I hope that’s not the case…

“The mistake is always then that the idea of subjectivity becomes the dominant motif in the work.” — Craig Owens

 

CRAIG OWENS—PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG CRITIC

By Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield (who interviewed Owens for the book in 1984).

(New York: Badlands Unlimited, 2018)

Also see:

BEYOND RECOGNITION, by Craig Owens

Edited by Scott Bryson, Barbara Kruger, Lynne Tillman, and Jane Weinstock 

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994)

Above: Craig Owens and Joan Simon at South Street Seaport, New York City. Photograph by Elizabeth C. Baker.

Image credit below: Badlands Unlimited.

LYNNE TILLMAN AND KERRY TRIBE

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“Joseph Beuys is a controversial figure in art history, in large part because of his constructed biography: Beuys often recanted his dramatic origin story, a swirl of truth and lies.”*

In an Un-Private Collection talk this week at The Broad, Lynne Tillman and Kerry Tribe will “explore the ways that Beuys, Tillman and Tribe each raise questions about how identity shapes public reception and perception,” in a conversation moderated by artist Shana Lutker, co-organizer of this series for X-TRA.

 

LYNNE TILLMAN AND KERRY TRIBE ON JOSEPH BEUYS, Thursday, May 17, at 7:30 pm.

OCULUS HALL, THE BROAD, 221 South Grand Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

* thebroad.org/lynne-tillman-kerry-tribe-joseph-beuys

Lynne Tillman in New York City, 1990. Photograph by Bob Berg.

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CRAIG OWENS LAUNCH AND PANEL

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A newly edited and updated version of Craig Owens’ 1984 interview with Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield has been published by Badlands Unlimited.

Join Lynne Tillman, Thomas Beard, and Horsfield for CRAIG OWENS—PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG CRITIC, a book launch and panel discussion with Paul Chan and Johanna Burton at the New Museum.

Owens (1950–1990) was an associate editor at October and a senior editor at Art in America. His essays are collected in Beyond Recognition—Representation, Power, and Culture (1994).

In his memoir Before Pictures, Douglas Crimp describes the quality of Owen’s “unrestrained intellectual enthusiasm.”:

“In many of our late-night phone calls… [Owens] would say something like, ‘I’m writing a brilliant essay on…’—on whatever it was he was working on at the moment. I was at first taken aback by his apparent immodesty, but I grew to understand and appreciate his elation at the process of his own thinking, sparked by his voracious reading.” — Douglas Crimp*

CRAIG OWENS—PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG CRITIC

Launch and panel

Friday, March 2, at 7 pm.

New Museum

235 Bowery, New York City.

* Douglas Crimp, “Agon,” in Before Pictures (Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 213.

From top: Craig Owens, 1982, from the series Art World, photograph © Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Craig Owens photographed by Barbara Kruger in her loft, 1988, image credit New Museum.