Author: jaywp

  • Maggie’s Zaha

    On 3 November, Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown opened the Maggie’s Centre for Cancer Care in his own constituency at Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland. This building has been designed (expenses only – no fees) by Zaha Hadid, the Iraqi-born…

  • Towers have ground settlement

    Richard Rogers and Norman Foster have managed to conceive two towers, one designed by each, close to each other on the contentious Ground Zero site. The towers are also considered by all to be complementary to each other. This must…

  • Superhumanatural

    Glasgow artist, Douglas Gordon, recently returned from New York, has a mega-exhibition of this title in Edinburgh, centred both on the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Botanic Gardens in the city. He recently exhibited darkly but with success in…

  • The UK/RIBA 2006 Stirling Prize

    The prize has been award to Richard Rogers’ architectural practice, RRP, for the stunning, 1.25 km-long Madrid Barajas Airport. This is a masterly demonstration by Rogers of state-of-the-art airport design, breaking new space barriers in the 21st century. The partnership…

  • Rip off

  • Paris Art Fair

  • Finders keepers?

    In Robert Hughes’ new memoir, Things I Didn’t Know (Harvill Secker, 2006) lies the harrowing tail-end of a talented life plagued by adversity. An early career surge, followed by taking up the role of Time magazine art correspondent from 1970…

  • Kerry James Marshall: Along the Way

    Finishing its last call on 22 October 2006 was the exhibition entitled Along the Way, covering the work of the American artist Kerry James Marshall from Chicago. This excellent show had already been at the Camden Arts Centre in London,…

  • Cocooning Paris

    The £70 million glass museum to house the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy Group’s newly planned art gallery has been commissioned by Bernard Arnaud, president of the group. Arnaud has been claimed to be the richest man in France, with an…

  • Daniel Buren and his Invention Trajectory

    Daniel Buren: Intervention II: works in situ Modern Art Oxford 4 November 2006-28 January 2007

  • Stirling Prize for Architecture 2006 (RIBA UK)

    This month, the architect, Richard Rogers, has attained a summit point in his career in winning the UK RIBA Stirling Prize. The building that has won the prize is not even in Britain, but the architect very much is. The…

  • The Changing Face of Oz

    The Wonderful Art of Oz The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Massachusetts 11 July-22 October 2006

  • Frieze Art Fair 2006

    Regent’s Park, London 12-15 October 2006

  • Francis Bacon in the 1950s

    Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich 26 September-10 December 2006 The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts seems like a fitting starting point for this fascinating touring exhibition. During the early part of Francis Bacon’s career, the collectors Robert and Lisa…

  • Building an Identity Through Innovation and Change: The Bienal de São Paulo

    Taking the Venice Biennale as a model, the Bienal de São Paulo has been drawing attention since its premiere in 1951, when it brought to Brazil approximately 2,000 works of art representing more than 20 countries. As any other country…

  • Unmasking the Heroes of American Comic Art

    Masters of American Comics The Newark Museum, New York a 15 September 2006-28 January 2007

  • The Architecture of the Last Empire

    The past decade has seen a growing interest in the British Indian Empire and its inner social and economic mysteries. But the physical legacy, in architectural terms, still awaits re-assessment. Indeed, while many of the buildings which remain are carefully…

  • The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art – book review

    The Horse: 30,000 Years of the Horse in Art by Tamsin Pickeral is a gallop through art history from prehistoric times to the present, with the focus narrowed on the horse – a long-standing and yet surprisingly unmentioned muse of…

  • Venice Architecture Biennale

    Who next to put his, or her hat, into the ring? This year, Ricky Burdett became the second British Director of the Biennale in four years, following Deyan Sudjic. That was a hard act to follow, and secured high ratings…

  • Saatchi\’s Return – at the RA

    Charles Saatchi’s new show, ‘USA Today‘, opens at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, on 6 October through 4 November. It shows the work of some 40 artists stateside, as shown in 150 works. It is nine years since the…

  • Oz Triumphant

    Our contributor in New York, Michael Patrick Hearn, has pulled off a masterly exhibition entitled ‘The Wonderful Art of Oz’, which runs until 22 October. There is a full-colour 32-page catalogue of his amazing exhibition, which is at the Eric…

  • Stones of New Delhi Commemorated

    The renewal of interest in the British architect Sir Edwin Lutyens is now fostered and encouraged by the Lutyens Trust. It recently obtained copies of the ‘Delhi Town Planning Committee Reports’ covering the choice of a site for the new…

  • Graffers Grow Across Town

    Graffiti artists play a vital role in humanising the more depressing landscapes of the transportation infrastructure of the M25 bounded metropolis. Surprisingly, they are predominantly white, since to be coloured is to be at risk from police engagement more than…

  • Redrawing Europa

    It wasn’t long before the EU’s new directive allowing Brussels to amend national boundaries, inspired by technocrats in Berlin, was to bear fruit here. There is a new TransManche region, conjoining Kent, East Sussex and a large chunk of Northern…