Author: jaywp

  • A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears

    Jules Feiffer: If You Really Loved Me, You’d Find Me: The Strips 1960-2000 Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York 15 June-11 August 2006

  • Pallant House

    In August, this website featured an assessment of the high quality of the collections at Pallant House, Chichester. As promised in that article, here follows a more detailed appraisal of the new architecture of Pallant House itself. This building is…

  • New German Painting – book review

    Christoph Tannert (ed). New German Painting. Munich/Berlin/London/New York: Prestel, 2006 ISBN: 3791336665

  • Melbourne Art Fair 2006: A Celebration of Indigenous Art and Beyond

    In August, more than 26,000 visitors flocked to the biennial Melbourne Art Fair, considered by the Australian Arts Council to be among the top three contemporary art events in the Asia Pacific region. Greeting those in attendance to buy art…

  • Hilla von Rebay: the Artist Behind the Guggenheim

    Adam Gallery, London 6-25 September 2006 Hilla von Rebay is perhaps best known as Solomon R. Guggenheim’s art adviser and the person who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to design the Guggenheim Museum in New York. But the Adam Gallery is…

  • Aalto Gathering in Finland

    An important event in architectural terms took place this summer in Finland, where the 10th International Alvar Aalto Symposium took place from 28-30 July at Jyvaskyla, Alvar Aalto’s ‘home town’. Symposia have been held here on important topics, both practical…

  • Interview: Kim Thomas Reflects On Art, Music, Poetry and Life

    Kim Thomas has been painting, writing poetry and singing for most of her life. Perhaps that is why this warm, funny, energetic woman wears her roles as painter, author and musician so lightly. They come as natural to her as…

  • Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment, Design

    No major painter in the history of art has a surviving corpus of paintings smaller than that of Leonardo da Vinci. Only a handful of paintings remain, some unfinished, some of disputed attribution, and at least one of the most…

  • The Draper Touch

    The High Style of Dorothy Draper Museum of the City of New York 2 May-9 October 2006

  • Axel Antas: Nature of Things/Marijke van Warmerdam: First Drop

    Rokeby Gallery, London 5 September-3 October 2006

  • West Meets East in a DADAdventure

    DADA…born East–Romania Romanian Cultural Institute, New York 9 September-31 October 2006

  • Mimmo Paladino: Black and White

    I don’t want to impose any point of view, any perspective, because I’m also quite fascinated by how others view my work. An outsider’s glance shows me what I don’t already know, what I haven’t as yet seen. It’s a…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Pallant House Gallery, which opened on 1 July 2006 in the centre of Chichester, is a dramatic conjunction of old and new – dramatic, that is, internally. From the exterior, as approached from the town, a seamless joining has been…

  • Pallant House Gallery, Chichester

    Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh 14 July-5 November 2006 ‘Beyond the Palace Walls: Islamic Art from the State Hermitage Museum’ is a very timely collaboration for the Edinburgh Festival 2006 between the Royal Museum in Edinburgh and the State Hermitage…

  • Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park

    This exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in the UK, and takes place under the aegis of Paris Calling, a season of contemporary French art showing in galleries across London, Oxford and Margate. The exhibition has travelled from Paris,…

  • The Paintings of Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610): Devil in the Detail

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 23 June-3 September 2006 The miniature paintings of German artist, Adam Elsheimer, are legendary; and yet his work has generally been insufficiently recognised. This was a brilliant religious, figurative and landscape painter whose influence upon…

  • Stirling Works

    The Stirling Prize shortlist for the top British Architecture Award is, as usual, characterised by razzmatazz, gloss, and glitter. It seems to be Richard Rogers’ year now with his impressive Barajas Airport, Madrid, entered simultaneously with his new building for…

  • Sibling Studios

    The architect Richard Rogers has developed a project for three ‘pavilion style’ houses in Wimbledon. The three are all for members of one family, who grew up on site, and are now demolishing their old house, a kind of family…

  • Sandra Blow

    Blow was in her time a pioneering British abstract painter of the 1950s. Her work expressed a deliberate informality. Her first sale was to Sir Roland Penrose. In 1960 she had won the first Guggenheim Award. Before this, she enjoyed…

  • Poundbury goes to Shanghai

    Thames Town is one of seven satellite communities to become established this year within Shanghai’s expanding orbit, which in total will provide for half a million people in new housing. This is a Chinese version of what an ‘olde English…

  • Kirchner Surfaces

  • Annely Juda

    Annely Juda built up on her own judgment and with an exceptional eye, a remarkable art constituency in central London, in Tottenham Mews. In due course she moved to superb, top lit galleries in Dering St. Her special field was…

  • Amen Emin

    Tracy Emin’s career trajectory continues to rise effortlessly, and all to her credit. Now comes the hot news that she has been selected to represent Britain in the June 2007 Venice Biennale. The last Biennale was notably successful, and the…

  • Peter Townsend

    Peter Townsend, who died 21 July 2006 in London, has proved to be a daunting prospect for obituarists, which would amuse him.