Author: jaywp

  • Von Hagens Caught Out, Wriggling

    The news that German state prosecutors are now reviewing the notorious anatomist “artist’s” work comes amid information that Von Hagens may have included the corpses of executed prisoners. Certainly a moneyspinner, his exhibit attracted a total of 850,000 visitors during…

  • TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003

    TIDINGS OF JOY: TURNER PRIZE 2003 The 2003 Turner Prize was awarded at Tate Britain on Sunday evening, 7 December. The £20,000 ($34,000) award was picked up by Grayson Perry, who describes himself as a ‘transvestite potter from Essex’. This…

  • Steven Holl – After Kiasma

    The American architect Steven Holl’s key European debut was the Kiasma Museum of Modern Art, erected with the help of Juhani Pallasmaa opposite the Parliament Building, Helsinki in 2000. But now he, like Peter Cook, has been persuaded to build…

  • ASHLEY HAVINDEN

    Dean Gallery, Edinburgh 15 October 2003 – 18 January 2004

  • Cooking the Books

    The Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was awarded this year to the historic 1970s’ architectural group survivors, led by Professor Peter Cook of the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College, London. However Peter Cook (together with Colin Fournier) has himself…

  • Eric Ravilious

    Imperial War Museum, London 23 October 2003 – 25 January 2004

  • Helen Frankenthaler: Paintings on Paper (1949-2002)

    Until the 1970s and 1980s, drawings (and indeed all works on paper) were considered to be of less importance than the larger works on canvas or board that evolved from them. Traditionally, works on paper were more personal or diaristic,…

  • The Seventh Shanghai Art Fair

    The commercial flavour is clear from the moment visitors step into the aptly named Shanghai Mart. This year, they had first to skip the temptations of the National Chocolate and Ice Cream Fair on the building’s ground floor before reaching…

  • FRIEZE ART FAIR

    The first Frieze Art Fair, a major new international art fair, took place in London from 17-20 October 2003. Organised by Matthew Slotover and Amanda Sharp, founders of frieze magazine, it was the first ever international contemporary art fair to…

  • FACE UP – Contemporary Art from Australia, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin

    Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum for the Present, Berlin. 2 October – 4 January 2004