Author: jaywp

  • Tarot – Origins & Afterlives

    Foreteller of fate, conduit for common sense or magic? Tarot has been used as a tool for decision-making since the 15th century. A new show explores its Renaissance origins, its evolutions and adaptations and its enduring appeal for artists and…

  • Anselm Kiefer: Early Works

    Challenging and shocking, the German artist fearlessly confronts his country’s Nazi past with grand political statements

  • Louisa Gagliardi – interview: ‘Something really important in my work is how disconnected we feel in this hyperconnected digital world’

    At the opening of her show at MASI Lugano, Gagliardi says she draws from Renaissance art and surrealism, film and TV as much as social media, to create digitally manipulated images and printed portraits and landscapes that express the isolation…

  • Henri Michaux: The Mescaline Drawings

    A fascinating exhibition gathers the juddering, gyrating drawings of this Franco-Belgian poet, which capture the nauseating reality of psychedelic drugs

  • McArthur Binion. Rawness Dancing: With Intellect

    Three series of paintings by the American artist are brought together for the first time in this exhibition in Belgium

  • Mickalene Thomas: All About Love

    Glittering, shimmering, dazzling: Thomas’s eye-catching works have more to them than meets the eye, speaking of Otherness and institutional racism, but also offering a complex and empowering vision of Black womanhood

  • Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

    The Indonesian artist’s Barbican project plunges visitors into a mesmerising Dante-esque world of flames, blood, snakes and dismembered bodies

  • Ithell Colquhoun: Between Worlds

    With many works exhibited for the first time, this comprehensive show also includes preparatory sketches and her tarot deck, reflecting her spiritual beliefs and radical, occult-influenced art

  • Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed

    The lesser-known of two successful sisters is given her rightful place in 20th-century history thanks to an assiduous gallerist and loyal friend

  • Paule Vézelay: Living Lines

    This jewel-like exhibition showcases the work of the pioneering Bristol-born artist, who moved to Paris, changed her name, mixed with the likes of Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Wassily Kandinsky and Alexander Calder, and became a key figure in abstract art