“Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” looks at an artist who is also the daughter of one of Lebanon's most famous politicians. Installation view of “Huguette Caland: Tête-à-Tête” at the Drawing Center. Photo ...

Divided into geographical chapters, Faces and Places catalogs the artist’s desire for constant change, be it physical or ideological. In the Beirut of the 1960s, an era often labeled in the fraught ...

Huguette Caland, the late Lebanese artist known for her buoyant abstractions of body parts, had to wait until she was 33 years old to act on her desire to be a painter. Born in Beirut in 1931 to a ...

Huguette Caland was a libertine. Her art was about prolonging life’s pleasures. “I love every minute of my life,” said the artist who made this painting. “I squeeze it like an orange and eat the peel, ...

CHICAGO — Two of the most delightful solo shows up in Chicago right now concern human bodies. Both are playful and witty, full of bright color and unexpected shapes. One gleefully declares itself ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like so many women before her, Caland achieved recognition only in old age and landed her first big American ...

One of Lebanon’s best-known women artists, Huguette Caland, died yesterday in Beirut aged 88. She was famed for her bright abstract paintings, erotic line drawings, and her Middle Eastern-inspired ...

She left her husband and children in Beirut to flex her artistic muscles in Paris. Her desire to live without restrictions was her defining theme. By Katharine Q. Seelye Huguette Caland, a provocative ...