Author: jaywp

  • Cecilia Vicuña – interview

    Now in her 70s, and with a show at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Cecilia Vicuña’s activist light is undimmed: she continues to celebrate the fragility and connectivity of plants, animals and people. She shares the magic…

  • Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Wilding

    This posthumous exhibition of Smith’s art includes work made right up to her death last year and is a fitting tribute to an artist who fought so hard for her own recognition and that of other Native Americans

  • Ayoung Kim: Delivery Dancer Codex

    A trilogy of video works featuring two queer, female delivery drivers in Seoul, Ayoung Kim’s Delivery Dancer Codex uses innovative digital technology to explore labour and the gig economy, as well as metaphysical notions of time and multiverses

  • Nigerian Modernism

    The Tate’s landmark exhibition presents a fascinating story, but could have done more to capture the excitement of post-independence Nigeria

  • Betty Parsons: Sheer Energy

    Known as a gallerist to the likes of Rauschenberg and Rothko, Parsons spent her weekends making her own art – and as this show proves, her art was also more than noteworthy

  • Ben Edge: Children of Albion

    In a powerful new show of painting, sculpture and film, the artist brings folkloric traditions and myth into the modern world

  • Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

    The two men from working-class Scottish backgrounds met at art school and became inseparable. This exhibition charts a tale of love, fame, drunkenness and tragedy

  • Push the Limits: Culture Strips to Reveal War

    A diverse group of works in this exhibition at Fondazione Merz show how contemporary art responds to conflict

  • Artes Mundi 11 Prize and Exhibition

    Against a background of divisive global politics and hysteria around migration, the six artists shortlisted for the 2025 Artes Mundi prize focus on the losses endured by displaced peoples, and the disempowerment arising from imposed colonial narratives. We review this…

  • Jumana Emil Abboud – interview

    ‘We can be anything we want to be through the stories we can make and unmake’