Author: jaywp
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Making Art in Paradise. Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design
Serizawa: Master of Japanese Textile Design Japan Society, New York 9 October 2009–17 January 2010
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Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting
Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre has been canonised as the output of a modern American master, but it shrugs off the labels that usually accompany such elevation: certain works or sequences are aligned with pop or conceptual art, but the majority resist…
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Eduardo Paolozzi: The Jet Age Compendium
Raven Row, London 4 September–1 November 2009
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Book review: An Outline of European Architecture by Nikolaus Pevsner
In this new and updated edition, the current publishers have produced a well-timed development of this classic work which first appeared in 1943 as a Pelican Paperback. The first line of the author’s Introduction was the famous, but now outdated…
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Book review: Trevor Dannatt: Works and Words
Roger Stonehouse has wisely given vent to that additional talent, which reveals Dannatt’s inherent literacy, in a special supplement at the end of the book. Editions of the Architects Year Book of the 1960s wholly captured the vision and intrigue…
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American Idyll – Jenny Watson
Galerie Transit, Brussels 6 September –11 October 2009
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They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust The Jewish Museum, New York City 10 May–1 October 2009
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Rosalind Nashashibi at the ICA
This exhibition sees a return to the ICA for Nashashibi, the first female artist to win their Beck’s Futures prize back in 2003. Since that date her work has undergone what seems to be a significant shift in direction, something…
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The Enlightenments. Edinburgh International Festival 2009
Edinburgh International Festival 7 August–27 September 2009
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Patrick Tjungurrayi and Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
Scott Livesey Galleries, Armadale, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 1–25 July 2009. by Dr JANET McKENZIE Since 1999 Scott Livesey Galleries has mounted an annual exhibition of work from Aboriginal communities, accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. As a tenth anniversary, the…
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Book review: One Thousand Drawings by Tracey Emin
Rizzoli International Publications New York, 2009
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Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out – book review
On Inauguration Day, First Lady Michelle Obama made a radical break from tradition, forsaking the typical red or blue ensembles favored by her predecessors. Instead, she wore a golden yellow wool lace coat and dress designed by Isabel Toledo. The…
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Raphael to Renoir
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 5 June–6 July 2009
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The Discovery of Spain. British Artists and Collectors: Goya to Picasso
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 18 July–11 October 2009
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Book review: The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell
The Woodblock Painting of Cressida Campbell
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Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009
Barbican Art Gallery, London 19 June–18 October 2009
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Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops, 1913–19
Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, London 18 June–20 September 2009
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Classified: Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
Classified, a new collection display at Tate Britain, draws on the Tate’s own collection of contemporary work to disrupt and delight in a similar manner to Borges’s encyclopaedia
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Luis Barragan: Il Poeta Del Silenzio
“Architecture is frozen music. The more you reduce the more perfect the notes must be.” Bruce Chatwin
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The Beijing National Stadium – Beijing Olympic Architecture in Retrospect I
The modern day Olympic Games has been more than just a sporting event where thousands of athletes gather in a host country to compete against each other and challenge Man’s limits in becoming “faster, higher and stronger”. With the impact…
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The Beijing National Aquatics Centre
Situated on the western side of the extended axis along the Olympic Green and directly fronting the National Stadium (aka ‘Bird Nest) is the National Aquatics Centre. As the name suggest, it has been the venue for holding swimming, diving…
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Gormley’s Plinth: One and Other
One & Other Trafalgar Square, London, 6 July – 14 October 2009. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days.Nick Howard’s photos and comments, Trafalgar Square, 7 July 2009.
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Futurism at Tate Modern (Futurismo ma no Futurisme)
Tate Modern, London 12 June–20 September 2009 Catalogue edited by Didier Ottinger (Tate Publishing, London, 2009)
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Garden & Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodphur
British Museum, London, 28 May–23 August 2009 National Museum of India, November 2009
