Tim Cornwell

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 | 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?

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Andrew Pulver |Tim Cornwell

Poet, sculptor, printmaker, gardener, designer… Ian Hamilton Finlay defied categorisation. His art garden in Lanarkshire, 25 miles south-west of Edinburgh, is arguably Scotland’s most popular piece of contemporary art. He was one of Britain’s pioneering “concrete” poets; much of his verse is carved into stone, or wood or linocut. He made toys, created books, printed cards, designed screenprints.

Dec 15, 2022 | everythingzoomer.com | Tim Cornwell

Aug 11, 2021 | theartnewspaper.com | Tim Cornwell