Author: jaywp

  • Obesity to order

    At Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art, (a short run from Sainsbury or Tesco) a celebration of over-indulgence can be found, or one might say, psychopathic obsession. Food is not on display, but Duane Hanson’s unerringly life-sized figures reveal in…

  • Art Deco at V&A

    The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a sequel to its successful Art Nouveau show, held in 2000, with Art Deco 1910-1939 on 27 March through 20 July. Drawing upon the wealth of material from the 1920s, a period that…

  • Tate Modern beckoning

    Overlapping here with the Art Deco exhibition, the Beckmann exhibition at Tate Modern will reveal the murkier, gloomy and claustrophobic world-weariness of Germany in a time of uncertainty and growing depression. What the Tate team will excel at will be…

  • Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy: The graphic work of a Renaissance artist

    British Museum, London. 5 December-23 March 2003

  • Painting, Passion and Politics: Masterpieces from the Walpole Collection

    Somerset House, London (28 September 2002-30 March 2003)

  • Aztecs at the Royal Academy

    Royal Academy, London. Until 11 April 2003. Martin-Gropius-Bar, Berlin, 17 May – 10 August 2003. Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, 26 September 2003 – 11 January 2004.

  • Saatchi riding high

    At last there is a strong critic of the public institution of Tate Modern, so long protected by taboos in the ongoing power game. This is Charles Saatchi. Who has finally ‘decloseted’ about the upcoming Turner Award. A groundswell of…

  • Mies van der Rohe

    The forthcoming exhibition at the Whitechapel, London (10 December 2002 – 2 March 2003) Mies van der Rohe 1905-38 is a definitive retrospective of his career in Europe. This is the first such show in Britain, bringing together 38 important…

  • High temperatures break the thermometer

  • Eva Hesse

    The short but brilliant artistic career of Eva Hesse is celebrated by Tate Modern (13 November 2002 – 9 March 2003). Born in Hamburg in 1936, Eva Hesse escaped the Nazi atrocities by evacuating with her sister in 1938. Reunited…