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1 week ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | José Da Silva
Artists’ books provide an intimate experience between the reader and the artist, but can sometimes be tricky to get to grips with. For example, rarer examples are often put away out of the reach of the hands that they were made for. They can also be experimental in both content and form.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Tim Cornwell |José Da Silva
Saeb Eigner’s ambitious, timely overview of Middle Eastern art from 1900 to today features more than 250 prominent and lesser-known artists, spanning Morocco in North Africa to Iran in the East. It includes detailed biographies focusing on key Modern artists such as Shafic Abboud and Bahman Mohassess as well as contemporary trailblazers such as Nabil Nahas and Shirin Neshat. Eigner tells us how he approached this complex book. The Art Newspaper: Why was it important to write this book?
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Matthew Holman |Alexander Adams |Andrew Pulver |José Da Silva
The British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) was famously private—he communicated mostly by phone but rarely gave out his number, which he changed often—so the task of cajoling him to agree to the investigative demands of a catalogue raisonné proved challenging. While the artist was amenable to helping piece together his works in chronological order, he had little desire to construct an archive in his own lifetime.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |Tim Cornwell |José Da Silva
The Arab art specialist Saeb Eigner’s ambitious and timely overview of Middle Eastern art from 1900 to today features more than 250 artists, spanning Morocco to Iran. Detailed biographies focus on key Modern artists such as Shafic Abboud and Bahman Mohassess as well as contemporary trailblazers from the region such as Nabil Nahas and Shirin Neshat. We asked Eigner how he approached this vast and complex art panorama. The Art Newspaper: Why was it important to write this book?
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | José Da Silva |Gareth Harris |Jori Finkel
• Click here for more reading lists on the world's greatest artistsThe first major posthumous survey of the Japanese American artist Ruth Asawa (1926-2013) opens this month at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art before travelling to the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As well as Asawa’s signature wire sculptures, the exhibition will include paintings, drawings, prints and archival materials.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |Elena Goukassian |Emily Sharpe |José Da Silva
Many museums lost visitors in 2024—and that is a good thing. Why? Because it shows that the slow build-back after the Covid-19 closures is over, and now museums are back at what we might consider their “natural level”, where visitor numbers are determined by factors such as the popularity of the programme, physical constraints or wider trends. We are once again starting to see numbers rise or fall by small amounts each year, but generally staying within a consistent range.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Lee Cheshire |José Da Silva |Gareth Harris |Martin Bailey
The British Museum received 6.5 million visitors in 2024, its highest number since 2015, The Art Newspaper's annual visitor figure report has revealed. The total places it third in our survey—the full version of which will be published in April—behind the Musée du Louvre and the Vatican Museums. Like most other museums, the British Museum’s visitor numbers plummeted in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Gareth Harris |José Da Silva
What Art Can Tell Us About Love, Nick Trend, Laurence King Publishing, 208pp, £18.99 (hb)The UK journalist Nick Trend explores how passion, love and sex has fuelled artists such as Francis Bacon, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio and Dora Carrington, analysing how lovers and muses have been caught on canvas over the centuries. Trend says that when the artist is in love with his subject, “everything suddenly becomes more complicated”.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | José Da Silva |Hannah McGivern |Louisa Buck
A career survey of the Bloomsbury Group artist Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) will open this month at the Charleston cultural centre in Lewes, southern England. It will feature more than 100 works including a number of objects from private collections that have not been exhibited before. Darren Clarke, who has curated the show and is Charleston’s head of collections and research, has chosen five key books to get to grips with the colourful life and art of Vanessa Bell.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Martin Bailey |Sarah Belmont |Javier Pes |José Da Silva
After opening the Liria Palace in Madrid to the public in 2019 and launching a programme of temporary exhibitions of historical importance, the House of Alba Foundation, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, gave the artist Joana Vasconcelos carte blanche to take over the palace, home to the Duke of Alba’s famous art collection.
