Author: jaywp

  • Los Angeles takes Manhattan

    Drumroll please for space-and-light artists Robert Irwin and James Turrell, sculptor-ceramicist Ken Price, conceptual artist John Baldessari, music, installation and graphic artist Llyn Foulkes and bad-boy sculptor and video artist Paul McCarthy. (If you include Ed Ruscha, who is extensively…

  • With Great Force, Swiftly and Surely

    Hilma af Klint: A Pioneer of Abstraction Edited by Iris Müller-Westermann with Jo Widoff Essays by Iris Müller-Westermann, Pascal Rousseau and David Lomas; and a conversation with Helmut Zander (Moderna Museet/Hatje Cantz, 2013)

  • Paul Delvaux

    Blain|Di Donna, London 18 June–17 July 2013

  • Outside In: 55th Venice Biennale

    In the alleyways of Venice, street vendors are touting a new product – a globule of goo, which when thrown at the pavement splatters into a seemingly irreconcilable fried egg shape, but over the course of five seconds, reforms itself…

  • Wilma Tabacco: Gilt Edge

    Langford120, North Melbourne, Australia 1 June–30 June 2013

  • Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?

    Whitechapel Gallery, London 18 June–8 September 2013

  • Nicholas Rena: The Harmony of the Year

    Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge 5 June–29 June 2013 Monumental vessels by Nicholas Rena refer to the respective liturgical and domestic roles played by ceramic jugs or vases throughout history.

  • Global Clarion Call: Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

    Heide Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia until 21 July 2013

  • Bill Viola: Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures

    Blain Southern, London 5 June­–27 July 2013

  • Anish Kapoor in Berlin

    The Turner Prize-winner Anish Kapoor has a solo exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau building, in Berlin. The show comprises around 70 artworks, including sculptures, objects and installations from 1988 to the present – half the works on display are new and…

  • The Wisdom of Birds: Holding – King – Shimmen

  • Salvador Dalí reunited in Spain

    There is an artwork by Salvador Dalí in almost every modern art museum in the Western world and possibly in the Eastern world too. It has been said that he produced more than 1,500 paintings, in addition to thousands of…

  • Women artists from the Arabic region

    Cross-border. Contemporary Female Artists from the Arabian Mediterranean Region brings together the work of 18 women whose art incorporates the repercussions of national and social conflicts in their countries. The selection of artworks focuses on the subject of borders, embracing…

  • Patrick Caulfield and Gary Hume

    Tate Britain, Linbury Galleries, London 5 June–1 September 2013

  • Realism in grand proportions

    The hyper-realistic sculptor Ron Mueck has created three new commissions for inclusion in his solo exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Using his trademark disproportionately sized people, he has fashioned an unsettling street scene between two…

  • Keith Arnatt on display

    In Self-Burial (Television Interference Project) (1969), Keith Arnatt inserted into television programmes photographs that showed him gradually sinking into the ground. With this project and other interventions in mass media and public space, which Arnatt called “situations”, he became one…

  • Sebastião Salgado: Genesis

    Natural History Museum, London 11 April–8 September 2013

  • Ellen Gallagher: AxME

    Tate Modern, London 1 May–1 September 2013

  • Re-Found: Sara Beazley, Charlotte Hodes, Maria Noel

    Jaggedart, London 23 May-15 June, 2013

  • Affordable Art Fair

    Good international and local artworks at low prices is the motto of the annual Affordable Art Fair, which this year, for the first time, is taking place during the summer. More than 100 galleries will be represented, with thousands of…

  • Limitations on Despair

    Tomonotsu Museum, Hiroshima, Japan 20 April–21 July 2013

  • Flatlands

    David Batchelor, best known for incorporating the pure sensation of colours in the construction of sculptural installations, now has his first full-scale exhibition of drawings and paintings. Through his two-dimensional works, the development of an aesthetic investigation that is the…

  • Safety Pin Chic: Punk Invades the Met

    When punk music emerged in the mid 1970s, a vibrant, cheeky subculture grew to amplify the message in art, literature, film, and most visibly fashion. To this day, punk and its many variations make up a large slice of popular…

  • Pictures have no sound

    During an artistic residency in Brussels, the photographer Vicente de Mello was struck by the absence of voices and music, sounds that are omnipresent in the clamorous streets of Rio de Janeiro where he lives. To capture this quietness in…