José Da Silva

1 week 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?

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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?

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.