Author: jaywp

  • Artist as Peacemaker – Beyond Conflict

    Beyond Conflict is an exhibition of 24 Scottish artists, which was conceived as a cultural dialogue between Scotland and Islam, in the wake of 11 September.

  • Documenta 11

    Australia is often out of synch with much of the rest of the world. The progressive Whitlam Labour era of the 1970s was described as ‘half an hour ahead’; more recently the conservative and xenophobic Howard government was accused as…

  • Kitagata Garden City, Japan

    The second scheme was essentially led by a brief by architect Arata Isozaki, in which Martha Schwartz was to be the co-ordinating landscape architect for four separate architect-designed housing groups. This was at Kitagata Garden City, Japan. The Garden City…

  • Antony Gormley Drawing – book review

    The new publication, Antony Gormley Drawing, reveals the working processes behind the sculptures of one of Britain’s most significant artists

  • Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

    Unseen Vogue: The Secret History of Fashion Photography

  • Rapture: Art’s seduction by fashion since 1970

    Until visiting this exhibition I had, naively and unconsciously, assumed that contemporary art and fashion were much the same thing. Damien Hirst, Stella McCartney, Tracey Emin, Kate Moss, Alexander McQueen — all seemed perfectly interchangeable in the pages of Hello…

  • StArt Artists in Malta

    An old tenement building close to the harbour in Valletta seems an unlikely location in which to launch an organisation for the promotion of avant garde art in Malta, especially as the building is believed to have been used as…

  • Barnett Newman at Tate Modern

    The Barnett Newman exhibition has opened and is a perfect fit with the Gallery spaces on Level 4. If Newman is pretentious, as one reviewer queried, then Tate Modern is all the more so: magnanimously the same reviewer offered readers…

  • Andrew Forge 1923-2002

    Andrew Forge, who died on 4 September 2002 in New Milford, Connecticut, aged 78, was a prominent and influential figure, a teacher and critic, and a distinguished painter, whose loss is regretted on both sides of the Atlantic. His contribution…

  • Millennium Bridge Gateshead

    Architects seldom get the opportunity to design bridges. Chris Wilkinson and Jim Eyre of Wilkinson Eyre have made a name for clear structural expression, with poetry too, in their recent works. Now, the £22 million Gateshead Millennium Bridge linking Gateshead…