Tim Cornwell

Tim Cornwell is a freelance art journalist who has covered artists and art festivals from London to Delhi, with a particular interest in the modern and contemporary visual art of the Middle East. He writes regularly for the Art Newspaper, The Scotsman and the Sunday Times in the UK and magazines including Harper’s Bazaar Arabia and Canvas.

Chant Avedissian, Sett el koll, 1991. Pigments and gum Arabic on cardboard

REMEMBERING CHANT AVEDISSIAN

Chant Avedissian passed away on October 24 at the age of 67 in Cairo, the same city in which he was born in 1951. The Egyptian artist was best-known for his stencilled Pop Art portraits of famous Egyptians of the…
Utopia (The No-Place is a Real Place) - Jorge Mendez Blake by Line Itani

REVIVING A LEBANESE LANDMARK

Architect Oscar Niemeyer’s fabled fairground in Tripoli hosted a month-long art event in September and October intended to reclaim the site for public use. The Brazilian architect originally designed the 100-hectare Modernist fairground, later renamed Rashid Karameh International Fair, after…

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Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula

Khaleej Modern: Pioneers and Collectives in the Arabian Peninsula, run from September 6 to December 11, 2022 at The NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Art Gallery. Curated by Dr. Aisha Stoby, this landmark exhibition surveys the emergence of modern art in the…

Sami Aboul Azm, Al Masar Gallery

PLACES… Familiar Places; there are some that have lost their familiarity and have become unrecognizable. When people attend the scene in silence, the unfamiliar seems even stranger than before. When One imagines a whole scene of what is an uninhabited…

For the Age of Lebanon, Farid Haddad

For the Age of Lebanon Sfeir Semler Gallery  presents Farid Haddad: For the Age of Lebanon, the artist’s first solo show in Beirut in over fourty years. The exhibition presents an overview of Haddad’s painting oeuvre and spans the last…

Noor Riyadh: Annual festival of light and art illuminates Saudi Arabia’s capital city

 Noor Riyadh: Annual festival of light and art illuminates Saudi Arabia’s capital city, with 190 artworks by more than 130 local and international artists  Noor Riyadh 2022 brings together renowned names in light art, who will present their works alongside a roster…

Sursock Museum: Restoring Artworks after August 4, 2020

The Sursock Museum is holding a public talk detailing the restoration process of the artworks damaged at the Museum following the August 4 explosions. The talk features Veronique Sorano-Stedman, the head of the restoration-conservation department of modern and contemporary art at…

MENART FAIR: WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE MENA

  WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE MENA: THE ART SCENE FOR WOMEN IS THRIVING DESPITE MANY OBSTACLES   Women make up 42% of the artists showing at the Menart Fair in Brussels. A simple fact, not so much a proclamation as…

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