Author: jaywp

  • Closing in — comme ça, comme çi…

    Not Charles Saatchi but Frank Cohen – Who? Frank Cohen is, in fact, the major North of England collector who may yet rival Saatchi. Cohen owns works by Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, and the painter Gary Hume, mostly lodged in…

  • Agnelli collection goes to final home

    Before his death from cancer earlier this year at the age of 81, Gianni Agnelli had seen to fruition the donation of his collection for permanent display in Turin. The venue is a 13 million building by Renzo Piano. The…

  • How cities renew, rebuild & remember

    Perhaps it was just a little ironic that, at a time when the bombing of Baghdad was in the offing, a conference should be held in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Scotland on Sense & the City. Addressed by speakers representing Glasgow,…

  • Botticelli worth £10 million found in vaults at National Gallery

    After lying unidentified for more than 150 years in the vaults of the National Gallery in London, a masterpiece by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli has been identified. If it were put up for auction, it is estimated it would…

  • Giorgio De Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne

    Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London 22 January-13 April 2003

  • Zeroing Ground Zero

    In early March, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation will publicly announce the winner of the two finalists shortlisted to provide designs for the reconstruction of the 11 million square feet of office space destroyed on 11 September 2001.

  • New acquisition: Quattro Stagioni by Cy Twombly, Tate Modern, London

    American artist Cy Twombly has four tall canvases on exhibition at the Tate Modern. ‘Quattro Stagioni’ (Four Seasons), a painting in four parts, was executed during the period 1993-94. The Edinburgh exhibition was the first solo exhibition in Scotland. The…

  • David Hockney: Painting on Paper

    Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 17 January-1 March 2003.

  • Titian: a must

    The Titian exhibition opening at the National Gallery, London (19 February through 18 May 2003) promises to be a unique experience unlikely to be repeated in decades. Tiziano Vecellio was born before the end of the 15th century, grew up…

  • Saatchi Gallery

    Cameras stand in keen anticipation around County Hall, London, for the planned April opening of the re-located Saatchi Gallery. Here, Nigella will soon be heard and young British artists (YBAs) will rise again, cloning a second generation, escaping the Turner…

  • Obesity to order

    At Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art, (a short run from Sainsbury or Tesco) a celebration of over-indulgence can be found, or one might say, psychopathic obsession. Food is not on display, but Duane Hanson’s unerringly life-sized figures reveal in…

  • Art Deco at V&A

    The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a sequel to its successful Art Nouveau show, held in 2000, with Art Deco 1910-1939 on 27 March through 20 July. Drawing upon the wealth of material from the 1920s, a period that…

  • Tate Modern beckoning

    Overlapping here with the Art Deco exhibition, the Beckmann exhibition at Tate Modern will reveal the murkier, gloomy and claustrophobic world-weariness of Germany in a time of uncertainty and growing depression. What the Tate team will excel at will be…

  • Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist

    British Museum, London. 5 December-23 March 2003

  • Painting, Passion and Politics: Masterpieces from the Walpole Collection

    Somerset House, London (28 September 2002-30 March 2003)

  • Aztecs at the Royal Academy

    Royal Academy, London. Until 11 April 2003. Martin-Gropius-Bar, Berlin, 17 May – 10 August 2003. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 26 September 2003 – 11 January 2004.

  • Saatchi riding high

    At last there is a strong critic of the public institution of Tate Modern, so long protected by taboos in the ongoing power game. This is Charles Saatchi. Who has finally ‘decloseted’ about the upcoming Turner Award. A groundswell of…

  • Mies van der Rohe

    The forthcoming exhibition at the Whitechapel, London (10 December 2002 – 2 March 2003) Mies van der Rohe 1905-38 is a definitive retrospective of his career in Europe. This is the first such show in Britain, bringing together 38 important…

  • High temperatures break the thermometer

  • Eva Hesse

    The short but brilliant artistic career of Eva Hesse is celebrated by Tate Modern (13 November 2002 – 9 March 2003). Born in Hamburg in 1936, Eva Hesse escaped the Nazi atrocities by evacuating with her sister in 1938. Reunited…

  • David Drummond

    And another, discrete but highly influential arts catalyst has also died, aged 95. David Drummond, Earl of Perth worked assiduously behind the scenes to bring about major windfalls to the world of art and culture. The present National Gallery of…

  • Daniel\’s dance

    The new book Natasha’s Dance by Orlando Figes, which provides a romantic but revelatory overview of historic Russia lacks a full visual arts corollary. The current wide interest in things Russian needs fuller understanding – it’s not just the newly…

  • Bryan Robertson

    Bryan Robertson has died – the greatest Tate Gallery Director we never had. Still active at 72, Robertson transformed the Whitechapel Gallery from 1952. Director at the early age of 27, he also transformed the public awareness worldwide, of Australian…

  • Aztecs

    Aztecs, Royal Academy of Arts, London opened on 16 November. It is a remarkable and brilliant exhibition. This is a groundbreaking show of the same ilk as the Tutankhamen show of the 1970s or the Africa exhibition of 1995.