Author: jaywp

Italian Paintings and Drawings: The Royal Collection

The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London 30 March 2007-20 January 2008
Shifting Identities

Aernout Mik, Camden Arts Centre, London 16 February – 15 April 2007
Andy Goldsworthy: Four Indoor Galleries and Open Air

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 31 March 2007 – 6 January 2008
Jean Baudrillard: Vraisemblablement Mort?

Jean Baudrillard, the renowned French philosopher, passed away in March 2007. Baudrillard was something of a maverick but in time came to be revered on both sides of the Atlantic. On 6 March 2007, the renowned French sociologist and philosopher…
The Deformation Man: David Lynch’s Chimerical Universe of Metamorphosis

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris 3 March–27 May 2007
Contaminated Waste Transferred

The assumption by building workers that Anish Kapoor’s 1984 work, “Hole and Vessel II” was rubbish fit only for the skip sent tremors through the London art world and argument among the workers themselves is even more confused now. What…
Rothko Rising
New Life Beginning

The Fine Art Society in London employed the Scottish collector James McIntosh Patrick for 50 years at their New Bond Street premises. His collection is now expected to be sold in June for around £2.5 million. It includes items by…
Apocalypse in Pink: The Work of Irene Barberis.

The role of faith in society and in art, has been addressed in numerous forms since the new millennium, yet it is by definition problematic. In “Writing the Silence: A Taxonomy of Memory”, Louise Adler writes:
Performance and Play

Absent without Leave, Victoria Miro Gallery, London 17 February–17 March 2007
Contemporary Artists Embrace a ‘Radical’ Tradition

Museum of Arts & Design, New York 25 January–17 June 2007
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment

Kurt Schwitters’ experimental practice ranged across sound poetry, drama, collage, typography, publishing and sculpture. When he died in exile in the Lake District in 1948, he was working on the last incarnation of his most mysterious yet compelling works, his…
Libeskind impacting Denver

What the Denver citizenry got then, in their quest for an international profile, was not the hoped-for clone of the Pirelli building designed just previously by Ponti (1956) for Milan, but something altogether different, a contextual work.
Documenting the Obvious: Picasso and American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 28 September 2006–28 January 2007
New Shanty

Two key individuals originating from the Netherlands have jointly initiated the formation of an open-air art gallery in the Vila Cruzeiro shantytown edging Rio de Janeiro. Jeroen Koolhass, the Dutch illustrator who works for the New Yorker magazine and the…
Constant Gardiner

The much-admired British architect and critic/historian Stephen Gardiner has died in England, aged 82. Gardiner became chiefly known as a domestic architect, with a special appeal to private clients. For example, in order to achieve improvement and commodity for the…
DNA Hiccup

In the past two decades, remarkable scientific progress has been made by exploring and, to a degree, cracking the universal genetic codes of the human race. Ironically now, two African countries have been confident enough to track those emigrants whom…
Home and Garden: Paintings and Drawings of English Middle Class Urban Domestic Space 1914 to the present

Geffrye Museum, London 20 February-24 June 2007
Alvar Aalto: Through the Eyes of Shigeru Ban

Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, London 22 February-13 May 2007 A retrospective exhibition of the architecture of Alvar Aalto in central London is extremely timely. It is now almost ten years since the major exhibition was organised in New York…
Anselm Kiefer: Aperiatur Terra

White Cube, Mason’s Yard, London 26 January-17 March 2007
The Possibilities of Paint: An Interview with John Zinsser by Cindi Di Marzo

For John Zinsser, painting and paint are more than a process and medium; they are his subjects. During his career, Zinsser has remained committed to the possibilities of painting and abstraction, while the contemporary art market moves from one trend…
Sixties Iconoclastic Art and its Representation

Riflemaker Becomes Indica: Part 2 Riflemaker Gallery, London 8 January-2 February 2007
In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst’s murderme collection

Serpentine Gallery, London 25 November 2006-28 January 2007
Gilbert and George: Major Exhibition

Gilbert and George has arrived at Tate Modern (and not at Tate Britain, at their own insistence). They claim that they are, for the period of this exhibition only, a part of the art ‘establishment’: after which the duet will…