“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 ...

As is so often the case with 20th-century artists who happen to be women, the Lebanese artist and fashion designer Huguette Caland wasn’t recognized until the late stages of her career—only several ...

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 ...

About the Artist: Born in 1931, Huguette Caland was the daughter of Bechara Khalil El Khoury, the first president of Lebanon post-independence. A comparative latecomer to practicing art, following the ...

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 ...

It’s hard to decide whether the Venice home of artist Huguette Caland is more diary or memoir. There are the antique framed sepia photos of a childhood as a member of the Lebanese political elite.

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, ...

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 ...