Author: jaywp

  • Anawana Haloba – interview

    ‘With everything that’s going on in the world, we talk about things, but we really don’t listen’

  • Rhiannon Hiles, chief executive, Beamish Museum – interview

    Winner of the world’s largest museum prize, the £120,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year, Beamish, an open-air social history museum in north-east England, was described as ‘a joyous, immersive and unique place’. Rhiannon Hiles tells us all about it

  • Anna Ancher: Painting Light

    Whether depicting women at work, children playing on the beach or locals at prayer Anna Ancher’s light-filled paintings are a joyful celebration of life on Denmark’s Skaw peninsula

  • Wright of Derby: From the Shadows

    The National Gallery reunifies Joseph Wright of Derby’s trio of candlelit masterpieces, while revealing some of the painter’s lesser-known marvels

  • Wayne Thiebaud: American Still Life

    A luscious selection of sweets, cakes and pies seduce us at this, the American painter’s first UK museum show. But was he celebrating the American dream and its values or critiquing it?

  • A Story of South Asian Art: Mrinalini Mukherjee and Her Circle

    This visually thrilling exhibition is a revelation. Pivoting around Mrinalini Mukherjee, it also celebrates key figures of the Indian cultural scene, including seminal work by her parents and other important south Asian artists

  • Holly Stevenson – interview

    Following in the female surrealist tradition, Holly Stevenson makes cathectic objects from clay, which distort and intrigue

  • Vision and Illusion: Architectural Photographs by Hélène Binet

    A research project by the University of Oxford into Jewish country houses, tracing their history and highlighting their cultural heritage, provides the framework for a series of exhibitions. Here, Binet photographed buildings in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the…

  • Lucy Raven: Rounds

    The American artist’s eloquent new film tracks a remarkable undoing, as the dammed Klamath River is allowed to flow again and a submerged landscape emerges from the deep

  • Grace Ndiritu: Compassionate Rebels in Action. Sit-in #5

    This show is about taking inspiration from alternative practices and sharing and defining what knowledge is. But though its motives are good, a set of films, some books, photographic archive and a few beanbags leave me wondering where the art…