Author: jaywp

  • Hotel Dreams

    Edvard Munch has been incarcerated in a smart restaurant overlooking the Oslofjord in Norway, close to where the artist grew up. The themed hotel plays a dangerous game, it seems, its appearance more akin to a kind of wayside art…

  • Goddess of the North

    US landscape designer, Charles Jencks, is currently working on a woman with breast and hips up to 100 feet high, to be established some ten miles north of Newcastle. This new sculpture will be a kind of soulmate to the…

  • Gerhard Richter 858

    The Seattle-based jazz composer and instrumentalist, Bill Frisell, has released a new album entitled Richter 858, inspired by a group of eight abstract paintings by German artist, Gerhard Richter. He has accompanied each of the paintings with its own composition…

  • Crumbs from Crumb

    Robert Crumb, the American master cartoonist, has been successfully exhibited in Britain, where some critics have compared his work to that of Cruickshank or Hogarth. Certainly there is a Rabelaisian impact to the cartoons. Crumb now lives mainly in France,…

  • Africa Remix

    Hayward Gallery, London 10 February-17 April 2005

  • Salvator Rosa Rediscovered

    On 25 March 2005, an intriguing summer exhibition opened at Compton Verney House in Warwickshire, entitled ‘Salvator Rosa: Wild Landscapes’. As Sir Joshua Reynolds (first President of the Royal Academy) claimed, Rosa’s perspectives offered ‘the power of inspiring sentiments of…

  • Joseph Beuys: Actions, Vitrines, Environments

    Tate Modern, London 4 February – 2 May 2005

  • New work by Bill Henson

    Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 8 January-3 April 2005

  • Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

    ‘Childe Hassam (1859-1935) chronicled New York City and New England during the turn of the 20th century. One of the most prolific and successful painters of his time and place, Hassam produced an estimated 30 to 40 canvases a season.…

  • Tate plans massive expansion

    Tate Plans Massive Expansion Tate Modern has announced a plan to expand by some 50%, to establish a new and thriving cultural ‘quartier’ in South London. The project could cost as much as £135 million. Herzog and de Meuron, the…