Author: jaywp

Lucian Freud Portraits

I sometimes leave exhibitions with a sense of anti-climax: expectations are often unfulfilled or disappointed. One might even feel a diminished assessment of the artist. Against that background of experience, I can only say that the current exhibition of Lucian…
Boris Mikhailov: Triptychs

Boris Mikhailov’s solo exhibition at the Sprovieri Gallery, London includes a diverse selection of works from ten different series, spanning a period of 50 years. For such a prolific photographer, this show offers only a “snapshot” of his entire oeuvre,…
Danser sa vie

The Pompidou Centre, Paris 23 November 2011–2 April 2012
One Giant Leap

Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill from 1 February 2012 and Limited Edition Saatchi Gallery Suite Hyatt Regency London – The Churchill 1 February–30 April 2012
David Hockney: A Bigger Picture

The Royal Academy of Arts, London 21 January–9 April 2012
A Walk Down One Fashion Magazine

Nostalgia in Vogue: 2000-2010 Edited by Eve MacSweeney (Rizzoli, 2011)
Cézanne and Paris

Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 12 October 2011 – 26 February 2012
Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

The de Young Museum, San Francisco 29 October 2011–12 February 2012
Lygia Pape – Magnetized Space

The artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004) once said that her primary interest, when she embarked upon a career in the arts in the early 1950s, was to create a relationship between space and structure using the minimum of visual elements possible.…
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 1 October 2011–5 February 2012
Building The Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935

Sackler Wing of Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London 29 October 2011–22 January 2012
Edvard Munch, L’oeil moderne

Centre Pompidou, Paris 21 September 2011–23 January 2012
Youth and Beauty: Art of the American Twenties

Brooklyn Museum 28 October 2011–29 January 2012
Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 6 Oct 2011–8 January 2012
Pipilotti Rist – Eyeball Massage

Hayward Gallery, London 28 September 2011–8 January 2012
Giorgio Vasari: Dessins du Louvre

Musée du Louvre, Paris 10 November 2011–6 February 2012
Can Architects Draw? Architects Sketchbooks

Architects’ Sketchbooks Edited by Will Jones Thames & Hudson, London & New York, 2011
Translating a Spiritual Legacy. Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style

Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style Jérôme Gautier Thames & Hudson in the UK/Yale University Press in the US and Canada, 2011
The Pot of Gold at the Other Side of the Atlantic. Cecil Beaton: The New York Years

Museum of the City of New York 25 October 2011–20 February 2012
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

National Gallery, London 9 November 2011–5 February 2012 by ANGERIA RIGAMONTI di CUTÒ According to the famously unreliable Giorgio Vasari, when Leonardo’s drawing of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist was displayed in a…
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven

The Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 19 October 2011–8 January 2012
Reality and Romance

Iconic images of war and martyrdom present very different sides of the same coin
Andrew Antoniou: Theatre of Chance and Enchantment

Andrew Antoniou’s recent exhibition at Australian Galleries, Sydney shows his enduring fascination with a symbolist language, a theatrical masquerade of human experience and folly. His curious characters from the imagination can be seen to enact private rituals. The most recent…
Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 11 October–26 November 2011