Author: jaywp

  • Gibraltar focus

    Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River is a large-scale project by the Belgian artist Francis Alÿs. Shot in the Strait of Gibraltar, which separates Africa and Europe, the video installation shows on one screen a line…

  • Date with fate at the Tate

    First published in Studio International, March 1971, Volume 180, Number 931, p92-93

  • Sarah Morris at White Cube

    An exhibition of work by the British-born American painter and film-maker Sarah Morris, in which she presents her most recent urban and social artistic investigation.

  • Touring obsession

    The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires, Malba – Fundación Costantini, is showing a comprehensive solo exhibition of the work of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The selection aims to present the best of five decades of intense artistic production,…

  • Professor Mechal Sobel discusses her research on Bill Traylor

    Mechal Sobel is one of the scholars who has reassessed Traylor’s drawings in light of the social and cultural conditions of the post-civil war south. Sobel is professor emeritus of history at the University of Haifa, Israel, and author of…

  • Momentum 7

    Momentum, the Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, which was first held in 1998 to bring emerging Scandinavian artists together in one show, has this year paired two different exhibitions, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast and Dare 2 Love Yourself. The…

  • Cildo Meireles at Palacio de Velázquez

    Cildo Meireles, the artist whose art tackles ideological and economic systems as the foundation for ongoing critical interpretation, has a major exhibition at the Palacio de Velázquez. More than 100 works are on display in a range of media, from…

  • Art from the seabed

    Mysteries of the sea and unexplored areas hidden in the ocean depths have preoccupied creative minds throughout the ages. Nottingham Contemporary art centre has put together more than 150 artworks by contemporary and historic artists, demonstrating that fantastic stories about…

  • Bill Traylor

    Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

  • Bedwyr Williams: interview

    Living in a small village in north Wales, Bedwyr Williams is the first to confess that most people there, including his partner, think he is a little strange. And indeed, there is no straight talking with this polymath-artist-come-standup comedian whose…

  • The origins on paper

    When art patron Peggy Guggenheim met Robert Motherwell in the 1940s, she encouraged the young artist to work with collage and also organised his first solo exhibition at the Art of This Century gallery in New York. This story is…

  • David Hockney video installation

    Critically acclaimed in the fields of painting, drawing, printmaking and even stage design, David Hockney now presents his first venture into video art, The Jugglers, 18 digital videos synchronised and presented on large screens. Hockney’s video installation debut was unveiled…

  • David Whitaker Retrospective Part II: Waters of the Nile

    Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London 1 July – 31 August 2013

  • Visions of the Universe

    National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London 7 June – 15 September 2013

  • Sturtevant: Leaps, Jumps and Bumps

    Serpentine Gallery, London 28 June – 26 August 2013

  • Mayor Boris Johnson unveils large blue Hahn/Cock

    Mayor of London Boris Johnson unveils Hahn/Cock by German artist Katharina Fritsch, the latest sculpture to be installed on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square. Measuring 4.7 m high, the giant blue cockerel will remain in place for 18 months

  • Stay of life in Venice

    Venice Biennale 1 June-24 November 2013

  • Experience the city in four dimensions through the lense of an artist at Beppu Onsen

    Located 1,200km west of Tokyo, the city of Beppu in Oita prefecture has, since the late-19th century, attracted tourists and intellectuals from across Japan with its abundant natural hot springs (with around 2,800 springs, it boasts the largest number in…

  • Revitalising an old art – Interview with Fabricio Lopez

    Fabricio Lopez – Várzea Mercedes Viegas Arte Contemporânea Gallery, Rio de Janeiro 24 July–24 August 2013

  • Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s

    V&A, London 10 July 2013–16 February 2014

  • Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist

    Miguel Benavides talks to Ibrahim El-Salahi about his Sudanese heritage, his time in prison on unfounded suspicion of anti-government activities, politics, his career, having sympathy for the underdog, and what makes good art.

  • Chagall: Modern Master

    Tate Liverpool 8 June–6 October 2013

  • Dennis Hopper: On the Road

    Museo Picasso Málaga 29 April–29 September 2013

  • Picturing Derry

    City Factory Gallery, Derry 31 May–7 July 2013