Author: jaywp

  • Turner Prize Upcoming

    The prize will be awarded on 5 December and there is already a marked shift in the style of art that is fancied by the glitterati who will take part in the selection process. Is this an acknowledgment of a…

  • Sycophantic Toady

    Three cheers for Brian Sewell who, in the Evening Standard of 20 May 2005, used the above expression to put a lid on the obsequious Sir Joshua Reynolds. In the first years of the 20th century, the collapsed market in…

  • Kahlo: The Enigma of Lost Times

    The most bewildering aspect of this new exhibition featuring the work of Mexican artist, Frida Kahlo (1907-l954), is that of lost time. Partly, this is caused by the slowness of the cataloguing of her effects, comprising 25,000 letters and 180…

  • John Bellany

    John Bellany Whether in his adopted Italian village of Barga in Northern Tuscany, in the hamlet of Garfagna nearby where he actually has his home, or in Cambridge or Edinburgh, where his many friends and admirers hang out, the news…

  • Hop, Skip and Jump in the Art Markets

  • Eduardo Vale

    The death of Sir Eduardo Paolozzi was not a surprise: the survival of his massive physique defeated all prognostications as he continued in a cognitive, silent, almost robotic mode for months following his initial stroke. And yet, it seemed he…

  • Basquiat, Brooklyn Museum, New York

    On 11 March 2005, the Brooklyn Museum in New York opened its ‘Basquiat’ exhibition. Located in the Morris A and Meyer Schapiro wing on the fourth and fifth floors of the museum, the exhibit includes more than 100 works dating…

  • The World is a Stage: Stories Behind Pictures

    Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 29 March – 19 June 2005

  • A Century of Ceramics: A Selection of 20th Century Potters and Potteries in the Isle of Wight

    Lisa and Andrew Dowden, Robin Goodredge. London: 2005 £28, ISBN 0-9548745-1-X This is an exceptional example, in the realm of crafts, of a small island community seizing the initiative to promote their home-grown potteries industry through a publication. This has…

  • Brooklyn Tulip

    On 11 May 2005, a celebration to mark the installation of ‘Tulips’, a painted aluminium sculpture by English sculptor, painter and novelist Edwina Sandys, took place at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York. The sculpture is composed of three, carefully…

  • Matisse, His Art and His Textiles. The Fabric of Dreams

    Royal Academy of Arts, London 5 March – 30 May 2005

  • The International Asian Art Fair

    Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City 1-6 April 2005

  • Venice Triumphant

    Venice Triumphant The 51st Venice Biennale of International Art opened to the public on 12 June 2005. This year, it promises to be a rich and diverse offering and to be less weighed down than it was two years ago…

  • From Kirchner to Kandinsky: German Expressionism in Dutch Museums 1919-1964

    25 March – 18 September 2005 Groninger Museum, Netherlands

  • The Triumph of Painting. Colour Power: Aboriginal art post 1984The Saatchi Gallery, London.

    The Saatchi Gallery, London. January – December 2005.

  • An Architecture of Invitation: Colin St John Wilson – book review

    Sarah Menin and her co-author Dr Stephen Kite have produced a remarkable piece of work. The book traces the career of Colin St John (Sandy) Wilson, including his built and unbuilt designs. The authors have selectively assembled a diffuse mosaic…

  • MACO: Mexico Arte Contemporaneo

    ‘MACO: Mexico Arte Contemporaneo’ is considered to be the most important art fair in Latin America, drawing together the best in contemporary art by notable new artists, as well as established names from around the world. The fair was held…

  • Barbara Kruger

    Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow 21 April–26 September 2005 Barbara Kruger, American artist and political activist, is exhibiting in Scotland for the first time, contributing to the ‘Rule of Thumb: Contemporary Art and Human Rights’ programme of exhibitions, workshops and…

  • Design and Engineering

    James Dyson’s resignation as Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Design Museum in London is a reminder of a debate that has been going on in Britain since the second half of the 19th century, when Sir George…

  • Mr Jeremy Moon experiments. Jeremy Moon: drawings and collages

    Rocket Gallery, London 1 March – 2 April 2005

  • Unauthorised unoriginals

    There has been new attention to the continuing habit of plagiarism in design, which in the furniture world is escalating. But a new group, called Anti Copying in Design (AciD), is fighting back for the originators of designs. Recently, it…

  • Erich Mendelsohn: Dynamics and Function – Realised Visions of a Cosmopolitan Architect; Motion Path; Bridget Smith: Rebuild

    De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea 8 April-2 July 2006

  • Andy Warhol Self-Portraits

    Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 12 February–2 May 2005

  • Photographers\’ Gallery Revived

    With the support of the Deutsche Börse Group, the Photographers’ Gallery in London has been saved. This is an astute move for new backers, the German stock exchange, which has its own, highly-prized collection. As a result of this excellent…