Author: jaywp

  • Tomás Saraceno: interview

    Tomás Saraceno’s work encompasses utopian architectural proposals exploring his ideas for a sustainable metropolis in the sky

  • The Tao of Now

    Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital The Museum of Arts and Design, New York 16 October 2013 – 1 June 2014

  • Hannah Höch

    Whitechapel Gallery, London 15 January­ – 23 March 2014

  • Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty

    Ancient Wisdom And Modern Knowhow: Learning to Live With Uncertainty by Robert Maxwell. Published by Artifice Books on Architecture, 2013.

  • Republic of the Moon

    To mark the start of its 20th year, the Arts Catalyst, an organisation that puts a cultural spin on science and technology, has taken over the Bargehouse, declared it an Earth-based embassy for the Republic of the Moon, and filled…

  • Interview with Mark Fox

    The multimedia artist Mark Fox has a selection of his recent work on display at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York. Fox, who trained as a painter, was brought up as a Catholic, and he creates amazingly intricate visual…

  • Project Space: Inverted House – Tina Gverović and Siniša Ilić

    Tate Modern, London 22 November 2013 – 13 April 2014

  • Moving Pictures

    Māori photographer John Miller won the 2003 Media Peace Prize Lifetime Award for his promotion of peace through his work. He describes himself as a “sympathetic observer”, but the power of his images indicates a reflective yet acute study of…

  • Celebrating Community

    The Musée d’art contemporain (MACM) marks 50 years as one of Montreal’s major cultural institutions by joining forces with the city’s other great repository of art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) for this exhibition, offered to the public…

  • England’s lost architect: Cecil Ross Pinsent

    An Infinity of Graces: Cecil Ross Pinsent, an English Architect in the Italian Landscape by Ethne Clarke. Published by WW Norton & Company, New York and London, 2013

  • Tracey Emin: 20 Years

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh July-September 2008

  • William Kentridge: Fortuna

    William Kentridge: Fortuna, edited by Lilian Tone with commentary by William Kentridge. Published by Thames and Hudson, 2013

  • Mikhailov’s Russia: From Eden to Hell

    Boris Mikhailov: Four Decades Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York City 23 November 2013 – 8 February 2014

  • Siobhan Davies Dance: Table of Contents – video review

    Siobhan Davies is an award-winning British dancer and choreographer with a particular interest in the concept of how one might archive dance and other performance art. To welcome in the new year, she has collaborated with the ICA and five…

  • Table of Contents, a live installation

    Siobhan Davies is an award-winning British dancer and choreographer with a particular interest in the concept of how one might archive dance and other performance art. To welcome in the new year, she has collaborated with the ICA and five…

  • Looking for Legends, Gambling on Faith

    Wang Guangyi: Words and Thoughts 1985-2012 by Demetrio Paparoni. Published by Skira, 2013

  • Cartier: Le Style et l’Histoire

    Le Grand Palais, Paris 4 December 2013 – 16 February 2014

  • Down and Out but Well-Dressed

    While economic hardship and escalating political tensions in the 1930s made life difficult for people around the globe, the 1929 Wall Street crash and Hitler’s rise to power did not dampen the fashion industry. Edwardian stiffness and conventionality were cast…

  • Infinitely Fractured World

    Among the most interesting experiments into how images are replicated, rearranged and transmitted through time and space, thus fracturing and conflating visual experiences, Atlas: How to Carry the World on One’s Back, curated by French art historian and philosopher Georges…

  • Matisse: The Essence of Line, Selected Prints: 1900-1950

    Marlborough Fine Art, London 4 December 2013 – 11 January 2014

  • Painting for Stimulation: Guan Jingjing

    Today Art Museum, Beijing 13-19 December 2013

  • Back to the Streets

    Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown, painter Martin Wong made New York City’s Lower East Side his adopted home. From 1978 until his death in 1999, Wong also collected art and antiques, notably the world’s largest…

  • A Good Frame is Worth a Thousand Pictures

    Canadian experimental film-maker and former jazz musician Michael Snow (Wavelength, Corpus Callosum) has just turned 84, but his multidisciplinary explorations into the nature of perception remain energised and engaging, his inquiries into the limits of representation precise and discerning. In…

  • Vulnerability as an Art Form

    Falling, fallibility and shame are recurring themes in Andrea Büttner’s work, which explores the positive aspects of passivity and the role of receptivity in creating value and meaning. While appropriation is a primary method for her, for example using drawings…