Author: jaywp

  • Phyllida Barlow: Unscripted

    Barlow’s playful approach turned found objects into composites that shone, while nodding to the artists she loved. Following her death last year, the curator here has attempted to reimagine rather than repeat her installations

  • Los Angeles: a round-up of the best on show

    The world may define Los Angeles by Hollywood, but the culture is better represented by the art

  • Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism

    This glorious show recreates much of the first impressionist exhibition in 1874 alongside works from the traditional Salon that same year. And it does so both through the original artworks and via a state-of-the-art virtual walk through the impressionists’ world…

  • Emma Stibbon – interview: ‘We need the science, the data, but art can reach us in a more emotional way’

    Tackling issues of climate change and coastal erosion in both the local area and as far afield as the two Poles, Emma Stibbon’s drawings and installations serve as monuments to what may all-too-soon be gone

  • Vera Molnár: Speak to the Eye

    Molnár plays with geometry and form, exploring shape, line and colour, using algorithms and computers to generate work in which humour bubbles under. Sadly, she didn’t live to see this retrospective to honour her 100th birthday

  • Modigliani: Modern Gazes

    This multifaceted exhibition positions the artist Amedeo Modigliani among his contemporaries, traces the art historic roots that make up his unique style and highlights his early documentation of the modern woman

  • Passions of the North

    The inaugural exhibition in this repurposed grain silo presents works from the Tangen Collection, demonstrating the markedly different styles of Nordic modern artists

  • Expansive Change: Distortion as Dialogue in Modern & Contemporary Art

    Among a flotilla of known artists, curator Santiago Rumney-Guggenheim has launched a few lesser-known names in an overview from 1920 to 2014, a time when art changed at a head-spinning pace

  • Kimsooja: Meta-Painting

    Ambiguous, talismanic, intangible, meticulous – Kimsooja’s immersive installations explore themes of being, non-being and coming into being

  • George Wyllie: I Once Went Down to the Sea Again

    A new museum dedicated to George Wyllie, a truly unique figure in the recent history of Scottish art, opens in Ocean Terminal on the River Clyde