Author: jaywp
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Shigeo Anzaï: Index I
This solo show explores the archives of photographer Shigeo Anzaï, looking at his role in documenting artists making and installing works in exhibitions in Japan between 1970 and 1976, starting with the 10th Tokyo Biennale
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Rose Blake: ‘I have always found it easier to express a thought through a picture rather than words’
The illustrator and artist talks about her recent exhibition at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery, drawing by hand and directly into the computer, the perils of being freelance – and why being Peter Blake’s daughter can be embarrassing
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IC-98: Drawn into Tomorrow
Finnish duo IC-98’s large-scale projections, combining intricate hand drawing with digital animation, take us into a maelstrom of waves, ruin and woodland, leaving us to contemplate the treachery of nature, and our tiny place in the world
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Niamh McCann: ‘I consider making a form of thinking’
The internationally acclaimed Irish artist talks about her latest show, Just Left of Copernicus, how she has been influenced by the work of German architect Hans Poelzig, and whymaking is the true test of one’s ideas
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2015
Although its subtext was sales, fair week provided a swirl for the senses. A dizzying array of work was attended by more than 35,000 artists, curators, collectors and viewers (77,000 if you include the satellite fairs). ABMB 2015 remained, by…
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Eva Langret: ‘As more and more exhibitions are produced in Africa, by African curators, the need for the rest of the world to “get it right” will become redundant’
Eva Langret, head of exhibitions for London’s Tiwani Contemporary gallery, discusses the current surge of interest in Africa’s contemporary artists and calls for an end to reductive, pan-African exhibition frameworks and more recognition of the individual artist
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Making Africa: a continent of contemporary design
This exhibition explores the impact new technology has had on the work of African artists, designers and architects, and Guggenheim Bilbao curator Petra Joos talks about its implications
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Ruth Root: ‘I love to see how artists create such a joy from colour’
The painter talks about her first US solo exhibition, at the Aldrich Contemporary Museum of Art, her love of colour and Photoshop, and making a huge change in her work
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Crossing the Line 3: Global Drawing
(including Contemporary Australian Drawing #5 and A Global Audit: Drawing Everywhere) Florence was the venue for the third of the Crossing the Line conferences, which explore the role of the artist in society. It also included two exhibitions, one of…
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Jompet Kuswidananto: ‘I am dealing with a culture that is never really fixed’
The Indonesian artist explains his work for Sonica 2015 and how he seeks to use sound installation and performance to evoke the feeling and experience of living through a political regime change
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Matthew Barney: River of Fundament
Film, opera, sculpture, ancient Egypt, contemporary industrial America, Normal Mailer – this exhibition has it all. But making sense of Matthew Barney’s five-hour, epic film and the works inspired by and made for it, is not easy – nor is…
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Courtney J Martin: ‘Robert Ryman makes a lot of difficult things look incredibly easy’
The curator of Dia: Chelsea’s Robert Ryman exhibition, discusses the seminal American artist’s six-decade career, and explains the importance of bringing Ryman’s work to new audiences
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Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings,…
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Noah Davis: Imitation of Wealth
The opening of this exhibition, which should have been a day of celebration, sadly became a day of mourning marking the death of the artist at the age of 32. In what has become Davis’s final completed project, his intellect…
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Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934-1954
The exhibition of Jackson Pollock’s works from the collection of the Museum of Modern Art opens up a new perspective on the role of prints and drawings in the development of the artist’s oeuvre
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Liu Ye: ‘Dick Bruna is more important to me than Da Vinci’
The Beijing-based artist on how seeing Bruna’s Miffy was seeing himself in a mirror, and why the most important thing about a painting is that it requires the viewer to spend a lot of time looking at it
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Artist Rooms: Roy Lichtenstein
As part of the Artist Rooms series, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh is showing 16 key works by Roy Lichtenstein, spanning three decades and three rooms. His wry sense of humour and memorable images are as…
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Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity
Vagrich Bakhchanyan was a follower of the Russian avant garde and a precursor of Moscow conceptualism and Sots art, as he strove to highlight the deadening absurdity of Soviet authoritarianism and officialdom
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Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? 1839-1945
The first of its kind in France, this exhibition shines a light on the great accomplishments of early female photographers in Europe and the United States
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Unorthodox
New York’s Jewish Museum courts the unconventional in a powerful group show that its curators claim ‘is not only about artistic independence but ultimately about individual freedom’
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa: ‘I just create works that give a sensation of something’
The artist talks about his current exhibition, God’s Reptilian Finger, and the inspiration he drew from Guatemalan history, YouTube videos, The Book of Mormon and conspiracy theories
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The Turner Prize 2015
The winner of the Turner Prize will be announced on 7 December. If art holds up a mirror to society, then this year’s Turner nominees cast some thought-provoking reflections
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Vanessa Baird wins Norway’s prestigious Lorck Schive Art Prize 2015
The Norwegian artist, an uncompromising but vital talent, was the deserving winner of one of Europe’s major art prizes
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Mat Collishaw: ‘I think human beings are always drawn to the slightly illicit’
With two concurrent exhibitions in the north of England, Mat Collishaw talks about the human race’s predilections for violence, debauchery and crime
