Author: jaywp

  • 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…

  • The Hunter and the Factory

    The Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico’s largest private contemporary art collection with more than 2,600 works, is presenting The Hunter and the Factory, an exhibition highlighting the impact of urban development on the natural environment. The selection of work by artists such…

  • Michael Landy: Saints Alive

    Sunley Room, National Gallery, London 23 May–24 November 2013

  • Zachary Buehner: The Ascent

    Zachary Buehner has no reference to being a graffiti artist on his website, for obvious reasons (In the US and elsewhere, graffiti is considered a form of vandalism or destruction of private property and many graffiti artists have served time…

  • ICA commission Zhang Enli

    The ICA in London has announced its plan to commission Shanghai-based artist Zhang Enli (b1965) to transform the ICA theatre with a painting that will cover the floor and walls. A significant number of artists in China have become dissatisfied…

  • George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life

    The Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Art, London 16 March—9 June 2013

  • Inside the Ordinary-Fantastic World of a Pop Artist

    Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side 1956–1969 Edited by Achim Hochdörfer, Maartje Oldenburg, Barbara Schröder, and Ann Temkin (Museum of Modern Art, 2013)

  • Frieze New York 2013

    Randall’s Island, Manhattan 10–13 May 2013

  • Godwin Bradbeer: Pentimenti

    James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 12 April–11 May 2013

  • Up Manhattan

    American architect Frank Gehry has at last made it to build in Manhattan, that Mecca for architects. Although on the embankment, close by the snarling six-lane highway there, and a sheaf of downmarket housing, this is every architect’s dream. Gehry’s…

  • Uruguay

    Uruguay, for one, believes in keeping the old pavilion going after 30 years. Their ‘maestro’ Pablo Atchugarry takes refuge in nature with his sculptures. These transform marble in the act of capturing the essence of a dreamworld. The mere act…

  • V & A

    Mark Jones was the perfect choice to run the V & A; he had successfully masterminded the new building for the Museum of Scotland before he left, and he appears undaunted by the challenge of the brilliant Libeskind spiral, as…

  • Virtuoso Twombly

    A stroke of curatorial genius (or plain good housekeeping) has led to the Edinburgh Festival exhibition of the work of Cy Twombly being established at Inverleith House in the Edinburgh Royal Botanical Gardens. Since these paintings represent the first major…

  • Viva Vivienne

    Vivienne Westwood’s re-entry into the multi-media arena is welcome as much as it is stimulating. Typically, she was quoted as saying, at the Guardian Hay festival ‘In visual art, I don’t believe that anything is happening at the moment.’ Her…

  • Wallace Collection Venture

    The Tate Modern effect is spreading: the Wallace Collection no less, has ventured into contemporary art, albeit in a self-reflective mode. ‘Sanctuary’, an exhibition of nine works by the American photographer Karen Knorr, is a triumph of self-examination

  • Warhol in History

    The exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh (at the Mound) commemorating the 20th anniversary of Warhol’s death has dramatically set to rights the prevalent theory of the 1990s that by the time he died Warhol’s best work…

  • Warhol Screen Tests

    Undoubtedly, Warhol’s most successful essays in the film medium, ‘Screen Tests’, represent an elegiac exposure of human vulnerability, albeit camped by Edie Sedgwick, and Dennis Hopper. Lou Reed seems genuinely flummoxed however, a victim if ever, of being famous for…

  • WGS and Waterlog

    The German author WG Sebald, who made Norfolk, England his adopted homeland, is this year celebrated there by a group of seven British artists, mostly Norfolk-based: Tacita Dean, Marcus Coates, Alec Finlay, Alexander and Susan Maris, Guy Moreton and Simon…

  • White Cube, Blue Panel

    White Cube gallery (London SW1) is now showing Ellsworth Kelly’s single, five-sided canvas entitled ‘Blue Panel’. Alone in its space, Kelly’s masterpiece reaffirms the vitality of American painting of the later 20th century. This painting seems to function almost as…

  • Whitechapel on the move

    An education and research tower will rise four storeys over the planned and refurbished Whitechapel Art Gallery, as well as three new galleries; one of these will be dedicated to material and works from the Whitechapel’s extensive archive and this…

  • Achille Castiglioni: an obituary

    The death of Achille Castiglioni towards the end of last year is a sad reminder that time is running out for a triumvirate who have dominated design in Italy since the Second World War.

  • Letter from Stockholm, September 2001

    September 2001 Raoul Wallenberg belonged to one of Sweden’s most famous families – a family of diplomats, bankers and politicians.

  • Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Duchamp

    Barbican Art Gallery, London 14 February–9 June 2013

  • Patrick Hughes: interview

    Hughes’ new exhibition at Flowers, Cork Street, includes nine new paintings employing his unique technique of reverspective.