Author: jaywp

  • Thinking Like a Mountain

    Not so much a festival as a cultural programme that runs over two years, Thinking Like a Mountain aims to weave stories between nature and culture, with events and exhibitions taking place in and around Bergamo, to alert new audiences…

  • Vanessa Bell: A Pioneer of Modern Art

    This exhibition focuses on the 1910s, the most radical and experimental period of an artist who individually, and as a member of the Bloomsbury set, changed the face of British art

  • Watch! Watch! Watch! Henri Cartier-Bresson

    This comprehensive retrospective of the French master of street photography Henri Cartier-Bresson focuses on his political side while also presenting a wider perspective on his work chronicling the 1930s to the 1970s

  • Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life

    Moody’s sculptures fizz with life in this beautifully paced show, in which the Jamaican artist’s works sit alongside those of contemporaries such as Jacob Epstein, Elisabeth Frink and Henry Moore

  • Igshaan Adams: Weerhoud

    This show, about the imprints of the human body, and which includes three new commissions – two tapestries and one of his ‘dust cloud’ installations – is conversely light and celestial

  • Brilliant Exiles: American Women in Paris 1900-1939 – book review

    Robyn Asleson’s beautifully illustrated book follows women such as Zelda Fitzgerald and Peggy Guggenheim, who, freed from the restrictions of gender, sexuality and race in the US, became leading avant garde figures in early 20th-century Paris

  • Roger Mayne: Youth

    Roger Mayne’s genuine curiosity about people shines through in his photographs of kids playing on the streets of 1950s and 60s Britain and intimate shots of his family

  • Huong Dodinh: Transcendence

    This exhibition, the Paris-based artist’s first solo show in New York, is a revelation in elegant minimalism honed over the past six decades

  • Mella Shaw – interview: ‘All art is a form of activism. I use my practice to engage people with the emotion of environmental issues’

    The artist talks about her award-winning work Sounding Line, which focuses on the overuse of marine sonar and its devastating effect on whales, and what she hopes it will achieve

  • Discover Degas and Miss La La

    Take one exceptional work and tease out various strands to create a small but exemplary exhibition – this approach has paid dividends in the case of Degas and Miss La La