Author: jaywp

  • The Pleasure of ‘Pain’. Pain: Passion, compassion, sensibility

    A Wellcome Trust exhibition Science Museum, London until 20 June 2004 Sadism and salvation, torture and tenderness, martyrdom and mercy: these are the subjects of Pain: Passion, Compassion, Sensibility – the first major exhibition to explore the enigma of pain…

  • The Art of Philip Guston: 1913-1980

    Philip Guston is one of America’s most important 20th century artists. His work occupies a unique place which the retrospective exhibition now showing at the Royal Academy in London reveals. If one views a painting such as ‘Untitled’ (Sandwich, 1980),…

  • Karel Nel: Status of Dust

    Art First Contemporary Art, 9 Cork Street, London, W1 9 November 2003-22 January 2004

  • Bill Viola: The Passions

    The National Gallery, London 22 October 2003—4 January 2004

  • A Crystalline, Kaleidoscopic Universe – Prada Aoyama, Tokyo by Herzog & de Meuron

    In 1999 Prada launched the “Epicentre Store” programme to examine different ways of reinventing the Prada retail experience by commissioning avant-garde architects like Rem Koolhaas and SANNA to design their new shops. The latest addition to the programme was Prada…

  • Spider in the Field – Snow-Land Agrarian Culture Center, Matsudai by MVRDV

    MVRDV is an office for urbanism and architecture based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries in 1991 after they won the first prize in the Berlin Europan Competition. They are well…

  • Interview with David Elliott, Director of Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

    Since it opened in October 2003, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo has attracted 750,000 visitors for its inaugural exhibition ‘Happiness: a survival guide for art and life’. This figure is surprising considering that the Mori Museum does not have…

  • Vital Configurations: The paintings of Susan Rothenberg

    Waddington Galleries, London 29 October – 22 November 2003

  • REM KOOLHAAS NEARER HOME

    A major retrospective of architect Rem’s work opens on 27 March 2004 at the Kunsthal, Rotterdam. After a ‘wow’ at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Koolhaas’ buildings revel in the overwhelming complexity of certain sites. The ‘Berlin Block’ came in for…

  • LIBESKIND IN HOLLOWAY

    Daniel Libeskind’s first London building (there is already the War Museum in Salford) has slipped quietly into the North London skyline, less controversially and less dramatically than his recently unveiled proposals for Ground Zero. In New York, he will bring…

  • BRANCUSI \’S BIRD

  • BAGS OF FUN, LOADS OF RUBBISH

    Bags of fun, loads of rubbish

  • Aldeburgh appalled

    Maggi Hambling has suffered a setback on Aldeburgh beach. The Scallop, which since November 2003 has graced, or – as the local Council would say – contaminated Aldeburgh’s shingly foreshore, has not run foul of any EU Health and Safety…

  • Worldly Wisdom: The Enlightenment Gallery

    British Museum, London. Opened 12 December 2003

  • Ashley Havinden: Advertising and the Artist

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Waldemar Meets Gerhard

    Gerhard Richter’s recent New York MOMA retrospective was profoundly moving, yet he remains an artist of whom British Gallery directors have fought shy for many years

  • Von Hagens Caught Out, Wriggling

    The news that German state prosecutors are now reviewing the notorious anatomist “artist’s” work comes amid information that Von Hagens may have included the corpses of executed prisoners. Certainly a moneyspinner, his exhibit attracted a total of 850,000 visitors during…

  • TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003

    TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003 The 2003 Turner Prize was awarded at Tate Britain on Sunday evening, 7 December. The £20,000 ($34,000) award was picked up by Grayson Perry, who describes himself as a ‘transvestite potter from Essex’. This…

  • Steven Holl – After Kiasma

    The American architect Steven Holl’s key European debut was the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, erected with the help of Juhani Pallasmaa opposite the Parliament Building, Helsinki in 2000. But now he, like Peter Cook, has been persuaded to build…

  • ASHLEY HAVINDEN

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Cooking the Books

    The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was awarded this year to the historic 1970s’ architectural group survivors, led by Professor Peter Cook of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. However Peter Cook (together with Colin Fournier) has himself…

  • Eric Ravilious

    Imperial War Museum, London 23 October 2003 – 25 January 2004

  • Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949-2002)

    Until the 1970s and 1980s, drawings (and indeed all works on paper) were considered to be of less importance than the larger works on canvas or board that evolved from them. Traditionally, works on paper were more personal or diaristic,…

  • The Seventh Shanghai Art Fair

    The commercial flavour is clear from the moment visitors step into the aptly named Shanghai Mart. This year, they had first to skip the temptations of the National Chocolate and Ice Cream Fair on the building’s ground floor before reaching…