Author: jaywp

  • Parmigianino: The Vision of Saint Jerome

    The towering canvas is stupefying – not for nothing is it said that soldiers invading his studio during the sack of Rome were so amazed that they let Parmigianino continue painting. Here, too, we see his preparatory drawings, evidence of…

  • In Flux: A Story About Water

    This compact but rich show delves into the many facets and meanings of water as represented in the past 400 years of art history

  • Hamad Butt: Apprehensions

    The artist’s first major retrospective, 30 years after his death, reveals a powerful talent, a pioneer in bio- and installation art, with a potent message about fear of other and of biological, social and political contagion

  • Do Ho Suh: In Process

    This innovative, elegantly assembled show of the South Korean artist gives us a glimpse into the ideas and methods that underpin his research-based, explorative and collaborative works

  • Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures

    White Cube presents a generously portioned survey of the trailblazing conceptual photographer, from his disquieting re-enactments of everyday life to his recent mannerist experiments

  • Dora Carrington: Beyond Bloomsbury

    For the first time, the “unpindownable” Carrington is defined in terms of her own person and her art, not her male lovers

  • Stephen Dean – interview: ‘A ladder fitted perfectly into a place that combined the terrestrial with the celestial world’

    Dean discusses Crescendo, his installation of a 15-metre ladder decorated with his signature coloured dichroic stained glass, in the Saint-Denis Cathedral Basilica in Paris

  • Louise Giovanelli: A Song of Ascents

    The Manchester-based painter’s first institutional show lifts the curtain on altered states, sensuous drapery and ecstatic pleasure

  • Maud Sulter: You Are My Kindred Spirit

    This show focuses on Sulter’s moving-image and spoken-word archives, in which warmth, familial relationships and a political poetics are brought into resounding harmony, as she explores her Scottish Ghanaian heritage

  • Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet

    From a dress made from 200 lightbulbs to works made by computer, the Tate takes us on a dizzying, dense trip through half a century of electrically augmented art, fretted with optimism for a future that never came