Author: jaywp

  • Adventures in Art: Frida Kahlo

    Frida Kahlo: The Artist in the Blue House(published 2003) is the most recent title in Prestel’s list of excellent art books for children. Creatively conceived, well written and well designed, these are the most attractive books of their type on…

  • The Museum of the Mind: Art and Memory in World Cultures

    The British Museum, London, 17 April-7 September 2003

  • 50th Venice Biennale

    The 100th anniversary this year of the Venice Biennale will probably not be its last. But then it’s a good opportunity to call it a century, with the 5oth Biennale creaking, bleeping and glitzing along

  • Philosopher and colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein dies: GH von Wright (d. 16 June 2003)

    Philosopher and colleague of Ludwig Wittgenstein dies: GH von Wright (d. 16 June 2003)

  • Good news from the trenches

    Simon Callery’s new exhibition at Dover Castle raises the question of ‘what is archaeology?’ It offers sideways on, a long sectional slice of chalk rock, a ‘dip’ within which shards may be found. Such installation works as Callery’s (which they…

  • Absolutely vital for survival; or how vodka in Venice is \’absolutely\’ best paired with tonic

    Absolutely vital for survival; or how vodka in Venice is ‘absolutely’ best paired with tonic

  • Stem cells in the suburbs

    In the 2003 Biennale Australian pavilion, Patricia Piccinini (‘We are family’) entered into the flesh and spirit of the event by seeking to plumb ‘normality’; she goes on the consider ‘What is family?’ A half-understood image of the human genome…

  • Venice nul points

    One of the stranger but understandable results of the Iraq War has been the failure of Chris Ofili – the favourite in the stakes – to win the Golden Lion at Venice. No, it was not the absence of a…

  • To the low countries

    In the Dutch pavilion, ‘We are the world’ is the title of a ‘confrontational juxtaposition of installations by five artists of different cultural origins, but all living and working in the Netherlands’. Thus, Mexican Carlos Amorales shows a small shoe…

  • Foster\’s Trafalgar

    In July, popular London Mayor Ken Livingston will unveil the most significant revision of Trafalgar Square since the Lutyens fountains were installed in 1939. Our Ken had the right idea, since the new setting for the National Gallery transforms Wilkins…