Author: jaywp

  • Masterpieces from Dresden

    Sackler Galleries, Royal Academy, London, 15 March-8 June 2003.

  • Guy Bourdin at the V&A. Fashion photography as art

    In the 1970s, fashion seemed to be at its lowest ebb. The 60s, when London was the style capital of the world, had passed; yet to come were the 80s and 90s when fashion would replace radical politics and rock…

  • Obituary: Joanna Drew

    Obituary: Joanna Drew Joanna Drew, a major and formative influence on British Art from the 1970s onwards died on 20 April 2003, aged 73. She became Director of Exhibitions at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1975, having first…

  • How world cultures were united

    This summer, the British Museum celebrates a quarter of a millennium of history, with a special exhibition in the Joseph Hotung Gallery of the Great Court. The exhibition is something of a curatorial squeeze, and deals with the interaction of…

  • Saatchi googol

    A crowd for the opening: Of 100 metres that Monday, 21,000, most visitors paying 8.50, filing past the Damien Hurst version Mini, nodding catnaps en route with Duane Hanson’s Traveller. The Tate Modern was hardly struggling with 100,000 visitors predictably…

  • Piper\’s tune

    At Dulwich Picture Gallery, the late John Piper’s 1930s works are on show in ‘Abstraction on the Beach’, through to 22 June 2003. This show helps to reposition Piper’s important role in the development of British Modernism, and to demonstrate…

  • Mesopotamia

    Everything moves so fast in Iraq. It’s no longer a question of ‘shock and awe’, more one of the disappearing museum inventory. In the cradle of world civilisation, the great collection of antiquities has seen looting and pillaging on a…

  • London Review of Books — Shop, Bury Place, London, WC1

    LRB has actually opened its own shop, in an amazing display of commercial acumen. First Agatha went, from Duke Street, St James’s, then Zwemmer closed in late April. The niche that was the old LRB office is now a newer…

  • Enron collection flogged off

  • Clifford\’s travels

    Sir Timothy Clifford has no difficulty these days in turning up important works that other curators and directors do not know to be under their noses. News that Sir Tim, while flicking through the bundles in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence,…