Author: jaywp

  • Gavin Jantjes – interview: ‘I want to be free from expectation’

    The South African painter, printmaker and former curator talks about the pitfalls of expectation, diversifying Britain’s art scene and creating a truly visual art

  • Sandra George

    George’s social-documentary photography is the standout exhibition of this year’s Glasgow International, giving agency once more to the less privileged among whom she worked

  • Biennale Gherdëina 9: The Parliament of Marmots

    Against the breathtaking landscape of the Val Gardena in Italy’s Dolomites, under the curation of Lorenzo Giusti, contemporary artists explore the links between culture and nature, between humans and the non-human

  • Zanele Muholi

    Anger, hurt, vulnerability, love, togetherness, celebration, passion … South African visual activist Zanele Muholi captures and evinces every imaginable emotion at high intensity

  • All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art – book review

    Orlando Whitfield recounts the behind-the-scenes story of his friend and one-time business partner Inigo Philbrick, the charismatic man finally sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent art-dealing

  • To Italy! With Liebermann in Venice, Florence and Rome

    This exhibition explores uncharted territory not only by tracing Max Liebermann’s visits to Italy but also by revealing how much interest Italians showed in the works of this German impressionist

  • Angelica Kauffman

    Finally, 256 years after Angelica Kauffman became one of its founding members, the Royal Academy is giving a solo exhibition to the artist who, despite the challenges to her sex, more than earned her place in history

  • Dominique White – interview: ‘I do everything the wrong way’

    Ahead of her Whitechapel Gallery commission, the winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women talks about manufacturing, mythology and submerging work underwater

  • Judy Chicago: Revelations

    After years of patriarchal prudishness and censorship, the vulva is now considered acceptable art world imagery. But does its dominance in Judy Chicago’s biggest UK institutional show so far reveal progress in gender equality or just her marketability?

  • Donald Rodney: Visceral Canker

    He was a young Black artist who railed against racism and sickness, both personal and in society. This retrospective, more than 25 years after his untimely death, is a reminder that his work is as relevant today as it was…