Author: jaywp

  • Logo with legs

    Now that we are in Britain in the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, the presence of the ‘broken’ logo will abound and develop innumerable variants. Colliding and colluding wherever possible with the Union Flag, the £400,000 item designed originally by…

  • Hirst\’s coup d\’etat against the dealers

    The Damien Hirst art industry is limbering up for the massive sale of his work in September, of some £65 million worth of work, to the chagrin of the dealers. They just have to go with it; there is no…

  • Garden with a view

    English gardener Nick Dakin-Elliot is part of an international team dedicated to restoring the particular ambience of Villa La Pietra, Fiesole, overlooking Florence. The villa and gardens previously the home of the late historian and author Harold Acton had during…

  • Campbell rising inexorably

    When 54-year-old painter Steven Campbell died in July 2007 with a ruptured appendix, he was planning to re-commence work. But it was not to be. Now 11 key oil paintings are exhibited in Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Print…

  • Don\’t throw bricks, someone could get hurt

    There is no shortage of plans, but sad to relate (at present) the new extension by architects Herzog and de Meuron, costing £215 million, is ailing in terms of the build-up of funds: the building will provide a further 60%…

  • About a wall: Hadrian at the British Museum

    History, at least in Northern Europe, essentially defines the Emperor Hadrian, subject of the British Museum’s brilliant new exhibition, as the man who ordered the Wall. Hadrian was always concerned with controlling entry to the Empire’s successors in the Western…

  • A Runaway Girl at Home in New York: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim

    Louise Bourgeois, a travelling retrospective marking the artist’s nearly 100 years of living and more than seven decades of art-making, is an ambitious project. Opening in October 2007 at Tate Modern in London, the exhibit appeared at the Centre Georges…

  • William Kelly – Artist as Peacemaker

    American-born Australian artist and human rights advocate, William Kelly first visited Australia on a Fulbright Scholarship in 1968, and settled there in 1974. An important artist and teacher, he early established an intellectual and creative originality as an artist. With…

  • Art, Consciousness and Other Intractable Problems

    ‘Neuroscience is emerging as one of the grand belief systems informing the imagination of artists and writers in the twenty-first century’,1 writes the neuropsychologist and author Paul Broks in the catalogue that accompanies this exhibition. It is certainly a rapidly…

  • Chantal Akerman

    What is it to perceive time? For some, to be temporally aware is to observe the changes in states or objects; to observe, say, the putrefaction of a peach, or the oxidization of a piece of iron

  • Aino Aalto Glass

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  • Robin Hood, Robin Hood

    One of the important architectural icons of the 1970s is, by popular consent, now due to be demolished in London’s Tower Hamlets. Conceived as providing housing for lower income groups, it was launched by the architectural husband and wife partnership…

  • Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons

    Tate Modern, London 19 June-14 September 2008 Vibrations from Apollo’s laurel branch stir tremors through the temple. Depart from here, O you sinners, Phoîbos taps the door with lovely foot.

  • A Maltese Celebration: Architecture into Art

    Richard England (architect): Architect as Artist Auberge D’Italie, Valetta, Malta, 1-25 July 2008 Patrick Fenech (photographer): The New Eye of Osiris Auberge D’Italie, Valetta, Malta, 1-17 July 2008

  • The Hanging Gardens of Colas: Bernard Lassus

    In 2008 Bernard Lassus finally completed his major project for the company Colas. Now this achievement is celebrated, among other accolades, by a large-scale colour brochure, which completes the picture. This is not the first time that a publication on…

  • ‘Poet of Light’ Vilhelm Hammershoi: The Poetry of Silence

    The exhibition of the work of the Danish artist Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916), entitled ‘The Poetry of Silence’, is part of a sequence of exhibition events held since 1986. These exhibitions have brought a wider audience closer to the mysteries of…

  • Gustav Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life in Vienna 1900

    Tate Liverpool is presenting the first, ‘comprehensive exhibition of Gustav Klimt ever staged in the UK’

  • Book review: Photo Art: The New World of Photography

    Edited by Uta Grosenick and Thomas Seelig London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2008 This work, which originated with the Cologne publisher DuMont Buchverlag in 2007, is an invaluable aid to historians of contemporary art and photography. Some 120 international artists…

  • Psycho Buildings at the Hayward Gallery

    The Hayward Gallery 28 May-25 August 2008

  • Architecture Not Now

    As we approach the second decade of the turbulent 21st century, the level playing field sought by both practising architects and by teachers and theorists appears to be more than ever transitory

  • Book review: Fold out futures

    Vol. 1, Chicago project Irene Barberis and Karen Forbes. Melbourne: RMIT Press, 2007 Dr Irene Barberis teaches and researches at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She has recently collaborated in Chicago with Professor Karen Forbes of Edinburgh College of Art…

  • Photographing Nepal from the Inside Out

    Nepal in Black and White: Photographs by Kevin Bubriski Rubin Museum of Art, New York 14 March–13 October 2008 On 14 March 2008, the Rubin Museum of Art, a venue dedicated to Himalayan arts and culture, opened two exhibits centred…

  • An Englishman in Tasmania – Nicholas Blowers

    Nicholas Blowers was born in Chelmsford, England in 1972. He studied locally, and then Fine Art at Southampton, graduating in 1994. In Europe he remains largely undiscovered, but he has already made an impact both in Sydney and Tasmania, where…

  • New Tent Architecture – book review

    Philip Drew London: Thames & Hudson, 2008