Author: jaywp
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South Africa: The Art of a Nation
This exhibition is packed with fantastic items that tell stories of resilience and resistance. But they are not given the space they deserve
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Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection
As viewers, we witness Moscow conceptualism caught in a perpetual bind between the Romantic obscurity of the “inside” and the unattainable transparency of the “outside.” For us, then, Moscow conceptualism remains incurably Romantic
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Piotr Lakomy: Room Temperature
For his latest instalment at the south London gallery The Sunday Painter, the Polish artist poses questions about our relationship to the objects, architecture and nature that surround us
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Helaine Blumenfeld: ‘Beauty has no real meaning any more’
The sculptor talks about her ideas of beauty and pain, and how she learned to express these through a visual language
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Joel Shapiro: ‘As an artist, you are synthesising the stuff around you in a way that engages you’
The influential American sculptor, now in the fifth decade of his career, brings out his wood wall reliefs from the late 1970s for their first survey exhibition, at Dominique Lévy in New York, along with a new installation
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Ai Weiwei: ‘It’s about humanity’
Ai Weiwei is showing at four New York City galleries simultaneously. To mark this, Royal Academy America hosted an informal event at which Ai talked to members and the general public about his work and his mission
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Leah Raintree – Another Land: After Noguchi
This modest exhibition consists of 10 photographs by Raintree of the work of Isamu Noguchi. Manipulating light and shadow, she transmutes his predominantly stone sculptures into otherworldly pitted lunar landscapes, Martian horizons and comets nestled within dustclouds
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Athena Papadopoulos: ‘Art is a kind of alchemy: turning shit into gold’
Drawing inspiration from her childhood and her womanising, fur-dealer father, Papadopoulos works across painting, drawing, textiles and collage to create messy, domestic installations using materials such as bedsheets, tablecloths, red wine, hair dye and lipstick
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Tim Benson: ‘I wanted my work to have more meaning’
The artist talks about storytelling through portraiture, and the human face of Ebola
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Jean Tinguely: Machine Spectacle
From kinetic sculptures to ‘do-it-yourself machines’ and scorched animal skulls to self-destructing golden phalluses, Tinguely courted controversy and spun spectacle throughout his life. Here, the artist who fought against being ‘museumised’ is subjected to, well, just that
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James Wilkes: ‘Mind-wandering has became a productive way for us to disrupt that idea of there being rest and the opposite of rest’
The exhibition Rest & its discontents at the Mile End Art Pavilion, London, is one of a number of events born from the works of Hubbub, a collective of multidisciplinary practitioners investigating busy-ness and rest. Wilkes, a poet, writer and…
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Beyond Caravaggio
The shadowy and sensuous world of Caravaggio was too tempting for contemporaries to ignore. But as this exhibition demonstrates, his were large boots to fill
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John Akomfrah – interview: ‘The question of discourse is absolutely central’
The artist explains the inspirations for his new split-screen film, Auto da Fé, and talks about the importance of the Black Audio Film Collective, of which he was a founding member
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Olga Chernysheva: Vague Accent
This series of drawings depicting urban life in New York was made while Chernysheva was on a month-long visit from Moscow, and marks the first time she has explored a subject outside her home country
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Amalia Ulman: ‘I learn things from the performances that I wouldn’t have otherwise’
Having presented her fictionalised personas on her Instagram account and at the Tate Modern, the artist goes back to the gallery space to present a new installation that continues her ongoing performance, Privilege
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Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape
A trail-blazing artist, largely lost from sight, is brought back into the limelight in this excellent exhibition, full of sunsets, poppies and crashing waves
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Paul Feiler
Examples of the signature works that occupied Feiler from the 1970s are on show at the Jessica Carlisle gallery, and are also to be seen alongside other modernist works at House of the Nobleman
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Nicolás Herrera: ‘this mural is about life’
Studio International travelled to Cuenca, Ecuador, to talk to Nicolás Herrera about his new work, El Jardín de las Mujeres, or The Garden of Women, a sculptural mural at La Casa de la Provincia, where it is permanently installed. It…
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Cecilia Brunson: ‘In the case of Willys de Castro, it’s also a perceptual and mental game’
The Latin American art dealer explains the ethos of her Bermondsey gallery and the importance of the Brazilian neo-concrete artist, Willys de Castro
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The Lumen Prize Awards 2016
In its fifth year, this leading global prize for digital art has really hit its stride, with a greater diversity and richness of technology and themes deployed to artful ends than ever before
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Jamian Juliano-Villani: The World’s Greatest Planet on Earth
For her first solo public exhibition outside the US, the artist shows a sculptural installation and six new large-scale paintings, which are like painted diaries of her visual influences
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Carla Rapoport: ‘I like to think we’re the Elvis of the art world’
The founder of the Lumen Prize says Elvis brought gospel and black music into the mainstream, and she hopes the annual Lumen awards will do the same for global digital art
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James Richards: ‘I was really into making an exhibition space where there would be nothing to look at’
The artist, who will be representing Wales in Venice (Cymru yn Fenis) at next year’s biennale, talks about his processes of collaging together digital fragments to create immersive audiovisual installations
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Lucia Nogueira
As this selection of work shows, the sculptures and installations of the Brazilian artist, made from found or secondhand objects, are full of contradictions
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