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@Tim Cornwell Sorry for the delay, I wish BP notified us for forum replies without having to use the @ symbol. Using Bureau of Labor Statistics data: Since 2021, the Labor Force has increased from 190,000 to 195,000. Since 2022, there has been an increase around 3,500. In that same time period, unemployment has been cut in half, going from 6% to 3%. The Consumer Price Index is basically 0.2%, which makes this area one of the least hit by inflation issues.
Middle Housing opportunities
I'm working with a group here in Las Vegas, NV where they've built an online platform for Tiny Home builders and buyers. It's an international platform. For the Las Vegas area we've been working on getting zoning approved for cottage clusters. We're all going to need to work on getting our infrastructure in place that allows us to offer home-ownership at a lower price range.
Middle Housing: How Condominiumization Can Multiply Your Returns
How Condominiumization Can Multiply Your Returns "Washington is in the midst of an affordable housing and homelessness crisis." — Washington State Department of Commerce, 2024–2029 Homeless Housing Strategic Plan With House Bill 1110 opening the door to build middle housing (like duplexes, triplexes, and fourplexes, townhomes, cottages, etc), many investors and homeowners are asking: “How do I maximize the value of this opportunity?” The answer? Condominiumization.
Understanding House Bill 1110 - The Law That Changed Everything
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Working Towards Solutions to Washington State's Housing Crisis
Solving the Housing Crisis What Is “Middle Housing” and Why It Matters in Washington Right Now By Tim Cornwell | Real Estate Agent | Investor We’re in the midst of an unprecedented shift in housing policy here in Washington State. If you’re someone who pays attention to zoning, infill, or housing affordability, you may have come across the term “middle housing.” It’s starting to show up more and more in local government plans, developer meetings, and investment strategies—and for good reason.
Unlocking Housing Opportunities: Understanding Washington's House Bill 1110
Unlocking Housing Opportunities: Understanding Washington's House Bill 1110 Washington State is taking a bold step toward addressing its housing crisis with the introduction of House Bill 1110, a groundbreaking piece of legislation aimed at expanding middle housing across the state. What Does House Bill 1110 Do? House Bill 1110 mandates that cities with populations over 75,000 allow at least four units per lot in traditionally single-family zones.
New book tells the story of a century of Middle Eastern art
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?
New book looks at the shaping of Modern art in the Middle East beyond politics and war
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?
Centenary celebrations for the unpredictable poetry pioneer Ian Hamilton Finlay
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.
Holiday Gift List: Books for the Bookish
1A Private Spy More than 700 pages of David Cornwell’s personal correspondence, edited by his son, reveal a different side to the master of Cold War espionage fiction – better known by his pen name, John le Carré – including his sense of humour, thoughtful kindness and gift for friendship. 2Book Madness Gigante, a professor at Stanford University, follows 60 books from the collection of Charles Lamb, the patron saint of book collectors, after his library was sold in 1848 New York.
Black Lives Matter resonates throughout Edinburgh Art Festival
Sekai Machache's The Divine Sky (2020) Courtesy of the artist The Black Lives Matter movement continues to resonate strongly over this weekend's post-Covid opening of Edinburgh Art Festival (EAF), which featured the European premiere of a film celebrating former enslaved person and 19th-century abolitionist campaigner Frederick Douglass, as well as new works from artists of African and Caribbean origin.
Edinburgh's Fruitmarket gallery reopens with new double-height performance space
Fruitmarket gallery's new double-height warehouse space will host performance and installation work Photo: Ruth Clark Ten years after a major overhaul was first mooted for Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket, a contemporary space in the heart of the city, the gallery reopens tomorrow following a £4.3m revamp. Now adjoining the existing building is a new double-height warehouse space, connected by a walkway to the two existing gallery spaces, that will double the gallery’s footprint.
UK museums and libraries race to raise £15m to save Honresfield Library's extraordinary collection for the public
Charlotte Brontë Juvenile watercolour portrait of a Glass Town peasant woman (around 1828) Image: courtesy of Sotheby's Two portraits by the young Charlotte Bronte—including a watercolour of a peasant woman made when she was about 12—are among the treasures in the Honresfield Library, now the target of a £15m fund-raising effort by a consortium of English and Scottish libraries and writers’ museums.
The American who brought Modern masterpieces to Iran
The story of the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has been irresistible to journalists for four decades, laden as it is with period glamour, political intrigue and eye-catching art. To briefly recap: in the mid-1970s, the third wife of the Shah of Iran, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi, was patron of a crash museum-building programme. Surging oil prices had made Iran’s ruling classes rich, and Western economies, and therefore the art market, weak.
‘The Night,’ First U.S.-Made Film To Be Released in Iran, Impresses U.S. Film Critics | KAYHAN LIFE
By Tim Cornwell Sometime this year, an Iranian-American movie will make history. “The Night” — a hallucinatory horror film by the young director Kourosh Ahari — will be the first U.S.-produced movie to show in Iran’s cinemas since 1979. It is already out in the U.S., and getting high praise from the critics. Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release. Kourosh Ahari. Courtesy of IFC Midnight. An IFC Midnight Release.
Stones, masks and matches: A decade of Middle Eastern art
A new book by the British Museum's Middle East art curator Venetia Porter presents an eclectic set of artworks evoking the region's recent history Published date: 10 February 2021 09:41 UTC | Last update: 2 min 41 sec ago The British Museum’s Islamic and Contemporary Middle East art curator Venetia Porter has authored a new book, Reflections, showcasing the museum’s collection of contemporary Middle Eastern art.
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Hope for a new future: Beirut's art world tell us how the city might be rebuilt
A man stares from a window towards the ruins of a heritage building in the Mar Mikhael neighbourhood, one of several historic districts in Beirut that bore the brunt of the explosion Marwan Naamani/dpa/Alamy Live News In September 2019, to mark the tenth anniversary edition of the Beirut Art Fair, the Lebanese-Senegalese artist Hady Sy unveiled his sculpture The Wall of Hope outside the luxury Le Gray Hotel.
The Egyptian sculptor who made the Sphinx smile
On his death this May, Adam Henein was mourned as one of Egypt's most prominent sculptors, known for his paintings on papyrus, sculptures, and extensive restoration work on the Great Sphinx Henein was commissioned to help restore the Great Sphinx, whose right shoulder was under threat of collapse (creative commons/Beniamino Facchinelli) Published date: 2 September 2020 09:14 UTC | Last update: 29 sec ago The artist Adam Henein, who died this spring, didn’t just draw on ancient Egyptian...
Coronavirus and art: How Middle East artists have responded to lockdown
Artists from the region are no stranger to crisis, the global pandemic inspiring new ways to engage with their art A coronavirus lockdown work, by Palestinian artist Mohammed Al Hawajri, inspired by a song by the legendary Umm Kulthum (Courtesy of Mohammed Al Hawajri) Published date: 1 May 2020 09:33 UTC | Last update: 6 days 18 hours ago “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” These words - attributed to Pablo Picasso by a Spanish writer - appeared on the website of an...
Art and coronavirus: Middle Eastern galleries to view on lockdown
As museums shut up shop following the coronavirus outbreak, where is the best of Middle Eastern art, and how can you best enjoy it at home?
Personal stories of coronavirus: the widow who opened her husband's exhibition for a day
Alfred Cohen, View from Permeke's Studio (1960s) Photo: © Charles Hall Diana Cohen, the 90-year-old widow of the painter Alfred Cohen, travelled from their home in North Norfolk to London yesterday, the first day of the Coronavirus lockdown, for the opening of the first show of his work since soon after his death in 2001. Years in conception and planning, it opened and closed in a day at Bush House, in King's College London.
From crude oil to canvas: Turning Iran's black gold into art
The region's history of oil exploration has inspired artists from the Middle East and beyond, including those who chose it as their medium Iranian artist Amin Roshan's family worked in the oil industry for generations, and later inspired his work (Courtesy of Janet Rady Fine Art) Published date: 17 March 2020 17:36 UTC | Last update: 17 min 17 sec ago Oil paints have been an artist’s staple since the Renaissance, and in tubes of paint for nearly 200 years - using mostly linseed oil, from the...
From Modernist nudes to present-day politics: British Museum to reveal its contemporary Middle Eastern art collection
Huda Lutfi's Al-Sitt and her Sunglasses (2008) Courtesy of the British Museum An exhibition opening at the British Museum this October will reveal three decades' worth of collecting contemporary Middle Eastern art at the venerable London institution. With around 150 works on paper, it will be a showcase for what was an unlikely collecting area championed by the museum’s curator of Islamic and contemporary Middle East art, Venetia Porter, since the early 1990s.
Medieval to modernist: Palestinian artist inspired by Jerusalem's melting pot
Jerusalem-born Kamal Boullata's internationally acclaimed art and writing reflected a variety of cultural and religious influences Kamal Boullata's "Granada Portfolio" screen prints conjure shimmering reflections on water (Elizabeth Key Fowden) Published date: 14 February 2020 15:55 UTC | Last update: 2 weeks 4 days ago In 1996 Palestinian artist Kamal Boullata, who died last year aged 77, created 12 abstract screen prints as part of his "Granada portfolio", an artistic response to the famed...
'Arab Christmas': A mesmerising mix of sound and setting
A line-up of renowned musicians marked a bittersweet celebration of Orthodox Christmas with some of the earliest music from the Arab region "Arab Christmas" took place on 7 January, the day on which Orthodox Arab Christians and Egyptian Coptics celebrate Christmas (Credit: Savas Alpaltun) Published date: 8 January 2020 16:03 UTC | Last update: 53 min 5 sec ago It’s a challenge to summon up the spirit of Christmas when most of the locals have already taken down their trees.
Houses of memory: Inside Beirut's abandoned buildings
Lebanon's derelict ruins are the focus of artist Gregory Buchakjian's new exhibition in Brussels Qasr Heneine, a former palace, is one Beirut's "most fascinating houses”, Buchakjian says (Credit: Gregory Buckakjian) Published date: 9 December 2019 16:18 UTC | Last update: 1 min 1 sec ago Beirut's abandoned buildings are ghosts of its scarred past, and Gregory Buchakin has inhabited hundreds of them - symbolically that is.
Troy's plunder: Where the East and West first clashed
New Troy exhibition at the British Museum showcases archaeological finds smuggled out of Turkey in the 19th century The exhibition includes some of German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann's finds excavated from Anatolia (Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum) Published date: 21 November 2019 11:42 UTC | Last update: 6 min 35 sec ago The British Museum opened Britain’s first major exhibition on Troy in 140 years this week, a stunning show of 300 objects and artworks, and a fresh 21st...
British Museum Hosts Mural by Artist and Para-Athlete Mohammad Barrangi
By Tim Cornwell The artist Mohammad Barrangi’s tiny apartment lies at the heart of London’s Bloomsbury: From a window, the Shard tower rises through the fog, a couple of miles away. We’re a stone’s throw from the British Museum, in a part of the city famous for nurturing the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists in the early 20th century. Barrangi is 31, and his international career as an illustrator and print-maker has begun to take off, with exhibitions and awards in Europe and Asia.
British Museum to Host Mural by Artist and Para-Athlete Mohammad Barrangi
By Tim Cornwell The artist Mohammad Barrangi’s tiny apartment lies at the heart of London’s Bloomsbury: From a window, the Shard tower rises through the fog, a couple of miles away. We’re a stone’s throw from the British Museum, in a part of the city famous for nurturing the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists in the early 20th century. Barrangi is 31, and his international career as an illustrator and print-maker has begun to take off, with exhibitions and awards in Europe and Asia.
A History Of Water In The Middle East: Drowned out by too much information
Sabrina Mahfouz's unconventional piece at the Royal Court mines rich material but is not sharp enough to hit home Sabrina Mahfouz explains that she fell in love with the subject of water as a child walking Cairo’s corniche (Craig Sugden) Published date: 18 October 2019 15:45 UTC | Last update: 2 hours 13 min ago A History Of Water In The Middle East does not sound like the most enticing of plays for a night at the theatre.
Inspired By the East: Whose Orientalism is it anyway?
Published date: 8 October 2019 13:13 UTC | Last update: 2 min 3 sec ago In 1978, Edward Said made Orientalism a dirty word in his book of the same name. The Palestinian writer and academic argued that patronising Western depictions of the East, and especially Arab culture, were bound up with imperialism, creating stereotypes of “the other”. The Prayer by Frederick Arthur Bridgman.
As demonstrations return to Cairo, Egyptian protest artist goes on show in new London space
Bahia Shehab's latest political graffiti work in London was removed within 24 hours, according to the artist Courtesy of the artist More than 2,000 people, including prominent activists and lawyers, are said to have been arrested after a flurry of demonstrations erupted in Cairo last week, according to reports in the Guardian.
Edinburgh 2019: Middle East performers at festival and fringe
'Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran' is by British-Iranian playwright Javaad Alipoor, performed during the Edinburgh Fringe (Credit: Susie Gray) Published date: 29 August 2019 12:43 UTC | Last update: 1 sec ago The Egyptian theatre director and playwright Ahmed El Attar was one of thousands of artists and performers in Scotland this month for the Edinburgh festivals, which boast of being the world’s biggest arts gathering.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 REVIEW Timandra Harkness: Take a Risk ★★★★
Taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe is a risky business, one that typically involves throwing thousands of pounds to the wind and seeing where it falls. Even shows that sell out lose money, and the pressure from performers’ accommodation costs have by many accounts soared this year. Timandra Harkness, writer, comedian, statistician and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s ‘Future Proofing’ and ‘How to Disagree’ is an expert on chancy ventures.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 - REVIEW - Working On My Night Moves ★★★★
Working On My Night Moves is a piece that makes other work on the Fringe look dated. It’s like watching the wordless, live creation of a piece of contemporary art, one that fills the stage surreally with ladders and swinging lights and floating chairs, the expert use of props as simple of silver foil and fans.
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2019 REVIEW - Jekyll and Hyde ★★★★
Jekyll and Hyde might have Robert Louis Stevenson turning in his grave but he surely would have chuckled. This New Zealand show, with an ever-so-slight twinge of Kiwi under their faux-French accents, is young, lively, funny, rude, audience-inclusive and all in all the perfect mid-afternoon silliness.
Collected from LA to Azerbaijan, Artist Afshin Naghouni Discusses Nationalism, Nostalgia
By Tim Cornwell Afshin Naghouni’s studio is tucked away underneath a railway arch in West London. Commuter trains drown out the conversation every few minutes, as they rattle and thunder overhead. The Grenfell Tower, an apartment block where 70 people died in a devastating fire in June 2017, looms over the view from his front door. Dollops of paint from Naghouni’s palette of colours cover a rolling table. An ash bucket is filled with cigarette butts — he goes through a pack a day.
Invisible but alive: How the art scene is surviving in Yemen
Photography, video art and installations are still being produced despite the ongoing conflict Published date: 17 July 2019 10:10 UTC | Last update: 1 month 3 weeks ago The conflict in Yemen, now in its fifth year, has been called an “invisible” war. The same could also be said of the country’s art scene: ask an art connoisseur or expert in the Middle Eastern market to name a major modern Yemeni artist and you are likely to draw a blank.
Art in the time of airstrikes: Yemeni artists urge international donors for support
A woman looking at informal show of "phone art" in a Sana'a cafe space Photo: Murad Subay Artists in Yemen are continuing to make and share work, but struggle with little support from international donors and none from their own government in the throes of civil war, according to the Yemeni filmmaker and musician Ibi Ibrahim. He is one of six Yemeni artists, along with four Syrian artists, speaking at a British Museum symposium this Sunday about making art in the two war-torn countries.
Summer Rolls, Park Theatre review - racism laid bare to mixed results
There’s a moment in Summer Rolls, at the Nguyen family dinner table, when a veil is briefly pulled back on the ugly racism so many Asian immigrant communities must endure in the UK. The treasured son, Anh, who has been rejected for jobs despite his first class degree in mathematics, defends his mother as someone who uses all her resources to survive.
Tehran's art fair opens despite sanctions and growing tensions with US
Peyman Hooshmandzadeh's Knives (2009) Courtesy of Ag Galerie In the face of rising tension between Iran and the US, the second Teer Art Fair opens its doors in Tehran today (until 28 June), with almost double the amount of exhibitors as last year.
Sikh Empire collector hopes to open dedicated museum
A gem-set and enamelled turban ornament (sarpech), India, probably Deccan, 19th century. Provenance: Family of General Hari Singh Nalwa (1791-1837), by descent. Toor Collection The collector Davinder Toor has added a £350,000 Sikh turban ornament to his collection of around 500 objects and works of art from the glory days of the Sikh Empire before its dispersal by the British.
Arab photography archive releases 22,000 historic images online
Selim Abu Izzedine’s Portrait of a woman on a horse (1900s, Egypt) has been digitally converted from a gelatin silver negative on glass Faysal Abu Izzeddin Collection; Courtesy of the Arab Image Foundation The Arab Image Foundation, Beirut’s pioneering non-profit archive of Middle Eastern photography, has launched an online platform that makes 22,000 images from the collection accessible and searchable for the first time.
David Adjaye chosen to design 'game-changing' contemporary art museum in India
Shakuntala Kulkarni’s Of Bodies, Armour and Cages (2010–2012) was created for a 2012 exhibition of the same title at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art in New Delhi, and is now on view at India’s 2019 Venice Biennale Pavilion. Collection of Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, photo by Kiran Keshav The UK-Ghanaian architect David Adjaye has been chosen to design what is set to be the most significant contemporary art space in India.
Other People's Money, Southwark Playhouse review - onetime Off Broadway hit retains its sting
Deft and funny and nicely cast, what's not to like about Other People's Money, the era-defining Jerry Sterner play in revival at Southwark Playhouse? The play's 1989 premiere Off Broadway allowed for a contemporary skewering of the roaring, rapacious, uncaring 1980s. Now it's a period piece, where Amy Burke, playing a pumped-up and pugnacious Manhattan lawyer, sports a swishing pale-grey pantsuit that would have done Paul Smith proud: her hair is as big as her ego.
National pride, national shame and the ‘post-national’: the question of identity at the Venice Biennale
Mark Wallinger’s Oxymoron (1996). the Union Jack flag in Ireland’s colours, flew over the British Pavilion in 2001 © Mark Wallinger At each edition of the Venice Biennale, artists and curators set out to prove that the national pavilions are an anachronism—the nationalistic shadow of a darker history in an era of a global market for art.
Iranian works will abound at the Venice Biennale despite US sanctions
Masoud Akhavanjam's two sculptures, Dilemma of Man and Metamorphosis have been installed in Venice, they will be on show during the Biennale © Alvise Busetto Iranian works will abound at the Venice Biennale this year despite newly aggressive US sanctions that have driven down the country’s currency and raised new hurdles for curators.
'Shameful scar': Centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre marked in New Delhi exhibition
13-year-old Madan Mohan was killed in the massacre © The Partition Museum, Amritsar A replica “whipping post” used by the rulers of British India for public floggings, and a photographic reproduction of the infamous “crawling street” where Indian subjects were made to crawl on the street, feature in a New Delhi exhibition marking the centenary of the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre in Amritsar.
The Life I Lead, Park Theatre review
I am deeply jealous of Miles Jupp's dressing gown in The Life I Lead, the solo play at the Park Theatre. It's a silky-grey patterned number of exquisitely comfortable proportions, and just the sort of thing a chap should wear to tell the story of his life via some genial patter over an hour or two.
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