Author: jaywp
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Ruth Asawa: Retrospective / Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art / Walt Disney Family Museum
Three well-attended museum exhibitions in San Francisco flag a subtle shift from the current drumbeat of art thrown together in protest to a timeless aesthetic freed from agendas and concerns for diversity, equality, and strife to ravish the eye and…
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Sargent and Paris
This dazzling exhibition on the centenary of John Singer Sargent’s death celebrates his versatile brilliance and enduring legacy
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Emma Critchley: Soundings
Through film, sound and dance, the artist’s continuing investigative project takes audiences on a journey to the deep, focusing on the environmental issue of deep-sea mining
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Rijksakademie Open Studios: Nora Aurrekoetxea, AYO and Eniwaye Oluwaseyi
At the Rijksakademie’s annual Open Studios event during Amsterdam Art Week, we spoke to three artists about the work they have produced during their residency
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AYO – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
AYO reflects on her upbringing and ancestry in Uganda from her current position as a resident of the Netherlands, using sculpture, sound and performance to create an in-between space of ambiguous, embodied translation
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Eniwaye Oluwaseyi – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Eniwaye Oluwaseyi paints figures, including himself, friends and members of his family, within compositions that explore the transience of identity
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Nora Aurrekoetxea – interview: Rijksakademie Open Studios
Nora Aurrekoetxea focuses on her home in Amsterdam, disorienting domestic architecture to ask us to contemplate the way it shapes us and ingrains itself in our bodies and psychology
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Kiki Smith – interview: ‘Artists are always trying to reveal themselves and remain hidden at the same time’
Known for her tapestries, body parts and folkloric motifs, Kiki Smith talks about meaning, process, and why it’s important that a work should have enough in it to take care of itself
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Frank Auerbach
Britain’s greatest postwar painter has a belated German homecoming, which captures the remarkable presence of his work
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How Painting Happens (and why it matters) – book review
Martin Gayford’s engrossing book is a goldmine of quotes, anecdotes and insights, from why Van Gogh painted on tea towels to why some artists find it hard to start a work and others don’t know when to stop
