Author: jaywp

Rude Britannia: British comic art

Tate Britain, London 9 June–5 September 2010
“Is Small Beautiful?” 1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces

1:1 Architects Build Small Spaces V&A Museum, London 15 June–30 August 2010
Colour Country: Art from the Roper River

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Darwin 22 May–12 July 2010.
Wolfgang Tillmans: A Photographer at Large

Serpentine Gallery, London 26 June–19 September 2010
Fiona Banner: Harrier and Jaguar. Moving installation art fast forward

Tate Britain Duveens Commission 2010, London 28 June 2010–3 January 2011
Marion Borgelt: Mind and Matter – A 15 Year Survey

ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra 27 May–4 July 2010
Beauty that is Always Strange. Dead or Alive, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2010

Dead or Alive Museum of Arts and Design, New York 27 April–14 October 2010
Francis Alÿs A Story of Deception

Tate Modern, London 15 June–5 September 2010
Joseph Beuys 40th anniversary journey

No journey with Richard Demarco would be complete without reference to Joseph Beuys, an artist whose influence on him remains as vital today as his first encounter with Beuys in 1968 at Documenta 4, Kassel, when they did not speak.…
Paintings Past and Present from the New English Art Club

Messum’s Gallery, London 19 May–3 July 2010
Picasso: Peace and Freedom

Tate Liverpool 21 May–30 August 2010
Book review: Walk to the Moon: The Story of Albert Houthuesen

The clown is a rich cultural symbol in Western art representing a plethora of ideas and identities. It has been used by the artist as a form of self-portraiture to allude to the role of art as critic, dissenter, outcast,…
The architecture of hope: Maggie’s cancer caring centres

The Maggie’s Centres are a remarkable, altruistic phenomenon, something all too rare in the architecture of our new age.
Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings

The British Museum, London 22 April–25 July 2010
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present Museum of Modern Art, New York March 14–May 31, 2010
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty

Tate Modern, London 13 October 2009–10 January 2010
A little Madness in the spring. Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers

Emily Dickinson’s Garden: The Poetry of Flowers New York Botanical Garden 30 April–13 June 2010
Jerwood Contemporary Painters

Now in its final year, Jerwood Contemporary Painters opens a window on to the diverse practice of 24 emerging artists. The exhibition brings their vibrant works together under the light of a crisp white gallery. All have graduated from UK…
Brad Pitt’s Initiative. Making It Right: New Houses at New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

Brad Pitt’s Make it Right housing neighbourhood reconstruction initiative for New Orleans is not the first ever solution to follow a catastrophe, but it is the most ingenious
Rubens, Van Dyck and Flemish Art

National Museum, Stockholm 23 February–23 May 2010
Ronchamp at sixty: Le Corbusier’s timeless legacy

The Chapel of Nôtre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier at Ronchamp was built between 1950 and 1956. A small, white building that lies conspicuous and easily visible on its knoll for many miles around, it signifies even from afar…
Frances Walker: Works on Paper

Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 2 April–30 June 2010
George Gittoes: Descendence stories, from Night Vision, The Diaries

Artist and film-maker, George Gittoes has shown new paintings the Descendence series (2009–2010) in his Berlin studio to mark the end of the year he has spent there, before returning to the Tribal Belt of Pakistan
Book review: George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco

George Barbier: The Birth of Art Deco, by Barbara Martorelli (Marsilio Editori, 2008; distributed in the US by Rizzoli, September 2009)