Author: jaywp

  • FRIEZE ART FAIR

    The first Frieze Art Fair, a major new international art fair, took place in London from 17-20 October 2003. Organised by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, founders of frieze magazine, it was the first ever international contemporary art fair to…

  • FACE UP – Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin

    Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin. 2 October – 4 January 2004

  • Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

    The Mori Art Museum opened in Tokyo this October. It is part of the 11-hectare urban development enterprise, Roppongi Hills, conceived by the property developer Minoru Mori and opened in central Tokyo in April of this year. The unprecedented scale…

  • Giorgio Armani: a retrospective

    Burlington Gardens, The Royal Academy of Arts, London. 18 October 2003 – 15 February 2004

  • Pre-Raphaelite and other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection

    20 September-12 December 2003, Main Galleries, Royal Academy of Arts, London

  • Frank Gehry – Walt Disney Concert Hall

    Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) unlocks the magic that enables Frank Gehry’s unique constructions actually to get built. Before computer-aided design, none of this would have been possible. So Gehry’s architecture is essentially of the 21st century

  • James Rosenquist

    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 17 October 2003-25 January 2004

  • Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook

    ‘Tensta Art Gallery, Stockholm, 30 August-26 October 2003.

  • Paula Rego: Jane Eyre and Other Stories

    Marlborough Fine Art, London. 15 October-22 November 2003.

  • Craigie Aitchison

    Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing Royal Academy of Arts, London 9 October–9 November 2003.

  • Frank Gehry – Maggie’s Centre, Dundee

    On the western, landscaped edge of Dundee city, overlooking the Tay Estuary, Frank Gehry’s very latest work stands complete. It exists mindful of particular place-related precedent, of shrines or temples from pre-history or early classical periods. But this gem of…

  • Winifred Nicholson in Scotland

    The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 July-7 September 2003 Duff House, Banff, 8 November 2003-18 January 2004 An Tuireann, Skye, 24 January-20 March 2004

  • Book review: Figuring it out

    Colin Renfrew. London: Thames & Hudson 2003. ISBN 0500 051143. 224pp, £32.00 In The Shape of Time (1962), George Kubler showed that our knowledge of the distant past relied mainly upon the visible products of man’s industry. In contrast, the…

  • Book review: The Raft of the Medusa: G

    Albert Alhadeff. Munich, Berlin, London, New York: Prestel Publishing 2002. Géricault’s masterpiece will always have more secrets to reveal about itself than any of its Napoleonic companion pieces, even those on a similarly grand scale by David and Delacroix, which…

  • Jon Schueler\’s sky

    From Mallaig, the late Jon Schueler used to captivate Edinburgh. A wartime sky observed from the turret of a B-17 Flying Fortress, enhanced his knowledge of the many moods of the Isle of Skye, observed distantly, painted movingly. He exhibited…

  • Julian Schnabel in Edinburgh

    Schnabel seems like a ghost from the past, from the booming, prancing 1980s. Strange then that he should have crashed through at the Edinburgh Festival. But it’s a quieter Schnabel, seemingly without the broken dishes, on show this year. The…

  • Cedric Price

    He was a charismatic architect, larger than life. He visibly stood for the social principles of architects who inherited standards of social engagement from the 1930s generation. He was always characteristically ‘smart’ with a preference for black or grey; smart…

  • Patrick Procktor: Gone Away

    Patrick is no longer with us. He is irreplaceably gone. A great and noble figure, yet deliberately, unavoidably human. Whether in his beautiful lithographs of the Ganges, or his grand paintings of an unfamiliar, wintry Venice, his works were supremely…

  • Manhattan take two

    Daniel Libeskind’s experiences of Ground Zero since his victory in the competition to redevelop the site earlier this year have shown one thing at least: that none of his competitors could have taken it all the way he has done.…

  • Killer Icon

    St Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum has confirmed through an official, Boris Sapunov, that the middle section of one of their icons depicting Christ, seemingly painted by an apprentice, has ‘a negative bio-field’. Not just a case of inferior work, apparently, but…

  • Thirst for Hirst

    Damien Hirst’s new exhibition ‘Romance in the Age of Uncertainty’ – open until 19 October 2003 at White Cube (London N1) – is undoubtedly drawing the crowds. There is a lot of God around. With religion here goes death, religiously…

  • Blake at Stake

    Bumping into Sir Peter Blake, RA, emerging from Waddingtons in Cork St (his dealer), one was conscious of a sense of deja-vu. With all this religious fervour about, one could have been on the way to visit the Blake ‘Madonna…

  • Bridget Riley at Tate Britain

    Tate Britain, 26 June-28 September 2003

  • Monet: The Seine and the sea, 1878-1883

    The Royal Scottish Academy Building, The Mound, Edinburgh 6 August-26 October 2003