Author: jaywp

Thérèse Oulton

A bewitching and challenging exhibition of paintings from 1983 until 2024, revealing an underappreciated abstract painter with a distinct and enigmatic visual language
Flora Yukhnovich – interview: ‘I’m always looking at history through a kaleidoscope of contemporary references’

Where better to view the work of contemporary rococo-inspired painter Flora Yukhnovich than at the Wallace Collection, where they hang proud among the canvases and decorative items that have long inspired her? She tells us about her work and her…
Graffiti redux

Graffiti! The recent dust-up over three Los Angeles skyscrapers raises the question: defacement or fine art? Follow its history, from marked-up rocks to NFTs, and weigh in
Goshka Macuga – interview: ‘I wanted to invite viewers to consider the thin veil that separates past horrors from current realities’

Macuga, whose exhibition Born from Stone is now on view at the London Mithraeum, discusses the potent allure of caves for the human psyche, a complicated relationship with her native Poland and the inexorable reiteration of violence throughout history
Claudia Martínez Garay – interview: ‘I’m interested in the encounter, the meeting place between brown bodies and white bodies’

As her exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary draws to a close, the multidisciplinary Peruvian artist has opened a major solo exhibition in Dundee, exploring the connections and contradictions between ancient and modern mythologies and iconographies, impacted by colonial erasure and modified…
Raven Halfmoon – interview: ‘It took everything in me to make these sculptures. Literal blood, sweat and tears went into them’

The sculptor and citizen of the Caddo nation talks about her forthcoming show at Salon 94 in New York City, the giant bronze figure at its centre, and how she mixes her ancestral narratives with popular contemporary culture
Carlos Moreno – interview: ‘The 15-minute city is not a way of declaring a war against cars’

The urban planner behind the concept of the 15-minute city talks about why it is now an urgent necessity worldwide and considers why the idea of limiting car use has become so controversial
Dialogue with Joseph Beuys

Alongside work by Beuys, six contemporary Japanese artists respond to an artist who saw no boundary between society and art, viewing them as interrelated
Awaken, Metamagical Hands

This exhibition calls back to the surface a hidden gradient of software art development since the 1990s and links it with a material and historical turn in digital art of the present
Edinburgh Art Festival

This year’s festival urges us to believe that, collectively, we can build a better future. And while there are no miracle cures, I came away from it with a feeling of hope