Author: jaywp

  • De La Warr Pavilion

    Travelling from London to Bexhill-on-Sea on a late autumn day, when the sun got stronger as one reached the English Channel, and where the wind blew with such strength that it was almost impossible to stand up, was a marvellous…

  • All the Fun of the Fair: Frieze Art Fair 2005

    Regent’s Park, London 21-24 October 2005

  • Nobuyoshi Araki: Araki: Self, Life, Death

    Barbican Art Gallery, London 6 October-22 January 2006

  • China’s Artistic Evolution, Then and Now China: Crossroads of Culture Follow me! Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium

    China’s current rush to globalise its economy and, to some extent, its culture, is affecting all aspects of its society, especially the arts. The present situation is bringing about dramatic change, but it is not the first time in China’s…

  • Up Ending

    Following the excitement over the Stirling Prize (see above), it is pleasant to observe that the work illustrated by artist Simon Starling, entitled ‘Shedboatshed (Mobile Architecture No 2)’, has been shortlisted, not for the Stirling Prize, but for the Turner…

  • Diane Arbus: Revelations

    Diane Arbus’s first retrospective exhibit in 1972 – several months after her suicide – shocked the public while mythologising the artist.

  • Gauguin’s Vision

    National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh 6 July–2 October 2005

  • Visuality and Biblical Text: Interpreting Velázquez’ ‘Christ with Martha and Mary’ as a Test Case

    Jane Boyd, Philip F Esler Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2004 €76, 156pp This beautifully produced and accessible book, a subject of much media interest, showcases what its authors consider to be a new method of artistic interpretation with reference…

  • Pop Culture on Repeat

    White Cube, London 7 September-8 October 2005

  • RIBA Stirling Prize 2005

    For the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year

  • Not Built in a Day

    The continued strife plaguing Italian architects spills over in Rome, where US architect, Richard Meier, has been under attack for an unpopular ‘shrine’ building that now houses on a mega-scale, the Ara Pacis, an historic altar that dates back two…

  • Key Sale Upcoming

    Christie’s Modern Sale: The Anderson Collection On 18 November, Christie’s will hold a major sale of works of art in London from the collection and estate of the late shipping magnate Sir Colin Anderson (d.1980), a shipping director of P&O.…

  • Just-So Stories

    The announcement of a vast, new, Indian monumental and religious complex at Delhi, set on the banks of the river Yamuna, a healthy distance from the catastrophic earthquake zone of northern India can only be welcomed in the Hindu world,…

  • More Jungle Stories

    ‘Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris’, sponsored by Aviva plc, opens at Tate Modern on 3 November 2005. This is the world of Rousseau’s jungle paintings, which had so enthralled the art world since he first sprang to fame in Paris…

  • Chinese Cries and Whispers

    In the Victoria and Albert Museum’s new China show, visitors are endeavouring to interpret ‘Between Past and Future’, as the title of the exhibition goes; in the form of live tableaux of heroic human groups photographed as a sceptical ‘dig’…

  • Seeking Paradise

    Ian Hamilton Finlay: Sentences Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh 29 July-23 October 2005 When the artist, Ian Hamilton Finlay, first came to Stoneypath, in south-west Scotland in 1968, the buildings were ruinous and the moorland inhospitable. But he introduced…

  • Cecily Brown: Paintings

    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 28 June-28 August 2005

  • The Chichu Art Museum

    Since the first inception of museums in the late 18th century, we have, until the present day, seen the development of three different generations of museum. First-generation museums, such as the Louvre, were built upon royalties for their own collection.…

  • Zaha Embedded

    The new garden extension of the Ordrupgaard Museum at Charlottenlund, just west of Copenhagen, shows world-renowned, Iraqi-born, British architect, Zaha Hadid, in a new, more landscape-oriented mood and it suits her architecture.

  • Sublimity at Tate Modern

    Sublimity at Tate Modern At last, the great main space (formerly the Turbine Hall) at Tate Modern has an installation worthy of its gargantuan promise. Like some reconstituted Giant’s Causeway, the sculpture spreads over, and above, the entire space. The…

  • Saatchi Building Dispute

    Saatchi Building Dispute The current running dispute between Charles Saatchi and the property owners of the former London County Hall represents a case between Shirayama Shokusan, freeholder of the Riverside Building, a part of the old County Hall, and Cadogan…

  • Patrick Caulfield CBE RA

    Patrick Caulfield has died in London (29 September 2005). Modest in his disposition and profoundly meticulous in his art, he graduated from the Royal College Of Art a year later than the ‘golden’ trio of David Hockney, RB Kitaj and…

  • Narcissus Self-Exposed

    Narcissus Self-Exposed Seldom has there been such a display of self-portraiture as the Edvard Munch exhibition just opened at the Royal Academy in London. Munch’s creative self-obsession has perhaps never been captured to such a degree before, culminating in the…

  • Beck’s Futures 2 far back

    The expectations raised by this year’s Beck’s Futures show are a sad and inappropriate thanks-offering to a corporation that has contributed much over the years to British contemporary art, and the show does nothing to enhance the ICA’s current predicament.…