Author: jaywp

  • New Order at Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on… at Serpentine Gallery

    New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on Top of Another Rock at the Serpentine Gallery. April/May 2013

  • Rock on Top of Another Rock

    Placing one rock on top of another is a seemingly simple gesture, and, as the Swiss artistic duo, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, themselves said, an archaic means of man making his mark

  • Pae White: Too Much Night, Again

    Inspired by a recent bout of insomnia, using the colours of Black Sabbath’s album cover from Master of Reality, which terrified the LA-based artist Pae White so much as a child that she had to hide it under her bed…

  • New Order: British Art Today

    Long associated with its support for emerging artists and early recognition of talents to watch out for, the Saatchi Gallery is now launching a new programme of exhibitions with the aim of enabling young graduates, based in the UK, to…

  • Liane Lang: interview

    Liane Lang’s works combine a mixture of photography and grotesquely lifelike silicon and rubber sculpture. Having recently undertaken a residency at the Memento Sculpture Park in Budapest, where she found herself amidst the supersized discarded sculptures of heroes from the…

  • Coming Soon: Qatar and the Emirates

    Linked by a coastline, by ambition, by energy and by sudden wealth, Qatar, Dubai and Abu Dhabi are powering a futureworld that only feels real to the first-time visitor on contact with its burgeoning infrastructure.

  • Elisabeth Frink (1930-1993)

    Beaux Arts Gallery in London is marking the twentieth anniversary of sculptor Elizabeth Frink’s death. She was just 62 when she died, leaving an impressive body of sculpture, having been widely recognized in her twenties. Elisabeth Frink: Catalogue Raisonné of…

  • Architecture for All, Without Limits: Toyo Ito at 72

    Today, as Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects, he and his colleagues continue to make life in large urban centers like Tokyo more livable by bringing natural elements and isolated individuals together in harmonious spaces.

  • A Choice Collection of Latin American Art Comes Home

    Casa Daros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cantos Cuentos Colombianos – “Colombian Songs and Tales” Para (saber) escutar – “To (know how to) listen” 23 March–8 September 2013

  • Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings

    Pallant House Gallery, Chichester 16 February–2 June 2013 Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex, is showing Barbara Hepworth: The Hospital Drawings. The show coincides with the 65th anniversary year of the launch of Britain’s pioneering National Health Service in…

  • The Bloomberg Commission: Giuseppe Penone

    Delicate and poised, spidery and animated, these bronze casts of tree trunks, hollowed out and painted with a radiant gold-leaf interior, seem to prowl the gallery on their spindly branched limbs. This new site-specific work for the Bloomberg Commission, Spazio…

  • Haroon Mirza: Untitled Song

    Retro furniture, disembodied speakers, bits of drum kit, wires and LEDs, Untitled Song is a sculptural installation that traverses boundaries between sound and vision, sculpture and music, analogue and digital. A collaborative effort between James Clarkson and Haroon Mirza, there…

  • An Exhibition to See: Landscape/Landscript: Nature as Language in the Art of Xu Bing

    Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 28 February–19 May 2013

  • Mat Collishaw: THIS IS NOT AN EXIT

    Blain Southern, Hanover Square, London 14 February–30 March 2013

  • Antony Gormley in Belgium

    The sculpture Firmament III (2009) by Antony Gormley has been acquired for the permanent collection of the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. The title of the work is rooted in an ancient word denoting the sky, and Gormley fashioned the…

  • Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in LA

    While Los Angeles’ modern residential architecture is world renowned, the innovative nature of its infrastructure and urban planning, commercial and civic buildings, housing experiments, and other architectural forms is less well-known. Initiated by the Getty, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture…

  • Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective

    Tate Modern, London 21 February–27 May 2013

  • Portraiture In Focus: Irene Barberis, Anita Taylor and Helen Sturgess

    Langford 120, North Melbourne, Australia 23 March–21 April 2013

  • Un Lugar sin Reposo/A Place with no Rest

    The Guatemalan photographer Luis González Palma, now a resident of Argentina, has a solo exhibition opening at the Art Museum of the Americas (AMA) in Washington, DC, at the end of the month. AMA’s mission is to show artists whose…

  • Kara Walker’s Silhouettes

    The Art Institute of Chicago has inaugurated a newly commissioned installation, Rise Up Ye Mighty Race!, made by American artist Kara Walker, who is known for her use of simple black cut-paper silhouettes to explore provocative themes. With her shadowy…

  • Monir Farmanfarmaian 2004–2013

    Work created in the last decade by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian is the focus of a show at The Third Line, a contemporary Middle Eastern art gallery in Dubai. Nearly 90 years old, Farmanfarmaian still tirelessly produces her eclectic…

  • Antoni Tàpies

    Timothy Taylor Gallery, London 7 March–13 April 2013

  • A Post-Modern Renaissance Rooted in Tradition

    Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design Museum of Arts and Design, New York City 19 March–7 July 2013

  • Joe Tilson: A Survey

    Marlborough Fine Art, London 6 March–5 April 2013