Author: jaywp

  • The Istanbul Modern Art Museum

    The Istanbul Modern can be hard to find. It is still new enough that taxi drivers are not quite sure where it is and guidebooks have not been published recently enough to include it. However, it could not be in…

  • Joseph Beuys Collection, Museum Schloss Moyland

    Driving through the landscape of the north Rhine on the Dutch-German border is an almost mystical experience. Here, extensive glacial moraines have been washed down over millennia from the Alps, hundreds of miles distant, to create a topography of flat,…

  • William Nicholson: Paintings

    Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York 16 February-25 March 2006

  • Edvard Munch: The Modern Life of the Soul

    Museum of Modern Art, New York 19 February-8 May 2006 ‘I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red. I stopped, leaned against the…

  • Martin Kippenberger

    Tate Modern, London 8 February-14 May 2006 Kippenberger’s restless stylistic movements resist the monumentality that a retrospective can impart, and this resistance gives the exhibition a manic energy. Rooms full of painted pastiche spill out into sculptures, books, catalogues and…

  • Americans in Paris, 1860-1900

    The National Gallery, London 22 February-21 May 2006 Paris, at the end of the 19th century, encompassed European tradition and the avant-garde. Having superseded Rome and London as the art capital of the world, it drew artists from all over…

  • Tom Hunter, Living in Hell and Other Stories

    The National Gallery, London 7 December 2005-12 March 2006. Since 1997, Tom Hunter has turned his camera on his surrounding neighbourhood of Hackney, showing empathy without being polemic. He is known for a remarkable blend of political commentary, history of…

  • The Trees for the Wood – the Enigmatic Genius of Jacob van Ruisdael

    Jacob van Ruisdael: Master of Landscape The Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London 25 February-4 June 2006 There is major significance in Seymour Slive’s excellent exhibition currently showing in the Sackler Galleries at the Royal Academy, London. Jacob van…

  • The Sound of Colors: A Journey of the Imagination – book reiew

    Jimmy Liao, Sarah L Thompson. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006 ISBN: 0316939927

  • On the Trail of Wise Fools and Simpletons in the Himalayas

    Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas The Rubin Museum of Art, New York 10 February-4 September 2006

  • Brussels Dispatch: A Review of Some Small and Unusual Spaces for Art

    A Review of Some Small and Unusual Spaces for Art

  • The Gao Xingjian Experience: A Personal Journey to the Infinite

    Singapore Art Museum 17 November 2005-7 February 2006

  • Moonrise over Europe: JC Dahl and Romantic Landscape

    The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham 20 January-23 April 2006

  • To the Finland Station and Back: RUSSIA!

    RUSSIA!, The Guggenheim Museum, New York 16 September 2005-11 January 2006 Russia is not accessible to reason and cannot be measured with a yardstick; Russia is a special country that can only be taken on faith. Fedor Tyutchev (1803-73) The…

  • Asian Traffic: Magnetism – Suspension

    Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai 22 October-21 December 2005

  • The return of Tracey

    Following what appears to have been a successful and inspiring trip to Australia, Tracey Emin has flow back to snowbound Britain. There were some hang-ups at Ayers Rock, caused by a sudden hatching of flies, and a wise decision was…

  • Menzel masterwork acquired by National Gallery

    The long tentacles of European illicit art dealing seemed to curl recently when a stolen Matisse, ‘The Luxembourg Gardens’, appeared briefly on the Russian auction site, Mastak, for some four hours before being speedily removed. There appears to have been…

  • Cultural exchange

    The British Museum is poised to lend some 270 of its valuable hoard of historic artefacts to the Capital Museum in Beijing. This cultural exchange follows on from the exhibition from China, currently at the Royal Academy of Arts, ‘The…

  • Royal Academicians in China, 2003-2005

    Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London 23 December 2005-20 January 2006

  • China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795

    Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries Royal Academy of Arts 12 November 2005-17 April 2006

  • Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57

    Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge 28 January-2 April 2006

  • Beyond the Visible: The Art of Odilon Redon

    Museum of Modern Art, New York 30 October 2005 – 23 January 2006 As part of a broad anti-materialistic and anti-rationalistic trend in art and ideas towards the end of the 19th century, Symbolist art also marked a rejection of…

  • Richard Long: The Time of Space

    Haunch of Venison, London 3 January-10 February 2006 Since 1967, Richard Long has used walking as the basis of his artistic practice. What appears in the gallery may be a sculpture constructed from natural materials, a photograph of a sculpture…

  • Tadeusz Kantor

    Kantor, who was born in Wielopole in 1915, came to represent the Polish post-war avant-garde and his productions – in particular ‘The Waterhen’, ‘Lovelies and Dowdies’ and ‘Let the Artist Die’ – have come to be seen as artistic works…