Author: jaywp

Berlin. Cosmopolitan: The Vanished World of Felicie and Carl Bernstein

This small but insightful show puts the spotlight on a microcosm within Berlin’s art world at the turn of the 19th century by presenting the art collectors Felicie and Carl Bernstein and their contribution to establishing French impressionism in Germany
Emma Talbot – interview: ‘I imagine the experience of life as an epic story – the one we all have’

Large installations, paintings on silk, fabric sculptures and drawings convey the connection between the specific and the universal and between life and death. Talbot tells us how myth, tragedy and politics colour her magical world
It Takes a Village

To mark its 40th birthday, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft is hosting an exhibition all about reaching out: within its collection to rarely exhibited objects; to villagers past and present; to those with access or sensory needs; and to…
Mike Nelson: Humpty Dumpty, a transient history of Mardin earthworks low rise

From the architecture of an old hilltop city in Turkey to the demolished Heygate Estate in south London, Nelson’s interest in entropic landscapes weaves through this exhibition like a guiding thread
Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting

This astounding show brings together the very best of an incomparable artist: absorbing, transcendent, sublime
Margaret Salmon: Assembly

From a mother bathing her children to cleaners working at the gallery, Salmon gives voice to a diverse group of residents in Glasgow’s Maryhill and Kelvinside –work that, for me, has a personal poignancy
Slavs and Tatars: The Contest of the Fruits

Rapping fruit, legendary birds and nail art feature in the UK debut of the Berlin-based collective Slavs and Tatars
Liverpool Biennial 2025: Bedrock

From Sheila Hicks’s gemstone-like sculptures to Elizabeth Price’s video essay on modernist Catholic churches, 30 artists respond to the theme of this year’s Liverpool Biennial, ‘bedrock’
Mikhail Karikis – interview: ‘What is the soundscape of the forthcoming future? The women’s response was gasping’

Karikis explains the ideas behind his new sound and video installation calling for action against climate change, on which he has collaborated with the SHE cooperative choir for women and non-binary people
Art & the Book* and Spineless Wonders: The Power of Print Unbound**

Two concurrent exhibitions bring special collections into broader spaces of circulation, highlighting print’s enduring role as a medium of collective expression and firmly placing a new era of zine-making and independent, small-press publishing within a radical multigenerational continuum