Author: jaywp

  • Artists’ Estates: Reputations in Trust

    Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau (eds). New Brunswick, New Jersey, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2005 ISBN 0813536049 Artists, like everyone else, die leaving legacies and estates, which they hope can safeguard both their living relatives and other beneficiaries, as…

  • William Orpen at the Imperial War Museum

    William Orpen is currently up for reappraisal and the Imperial War Museum has started to make a name for itself in this way. Firstly, there was the superb Eric Ravilious exhibition last year. Now, Orpen has been rescued from the…

  • Christo’s Wrappings

    Now that the ‘The Gates’ are all dissembled in Central Park (and no doubt carefully stored while their value accumulates – what price one or two ‘Gates’?), it is useful here at Studio to reflect on the artists’ previous works.…

  • Moving Horizons: The Landscape Architecture of Kathryn Gustafson and Partners – book review

    Jane Amidon. Birkhauser, 2005 ISBN 3764324252

  • Turner Whistler Monet

    Tate Britain, London 10 February-15 May 2005

  • The Art Olympics – The Eighth Shanghai Art Fair

    Rather than merely focusing on art works which cater to the masses, the Eighth Shanghai Art Fair has again divided its exhibition contents into two different categories, in an effort to raise the level of artistic content of the Fair…

  • P.S.1, MoMA, New York

    Manny Farber: About Face 27 September-10 January 2005

  • Art in the Making: Degas

    National Gallery, London 10 November 2004-30 January 2005

  • Book review: William Scott

    Norbert Lynton. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004 £40, ISBN 0-500-976376 William Scott (1913-89) enjoyed a long and highly successful creative life and, in the opinion of some commentators on British art, he was the most significant painter of his generation.…

  • Raphael: From Urbino to Rome

    National Gallery, London 20 October 2004-16 January 2005