Author: jaywp

  • Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting

    Over the summer the National Gallery, London showed Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting, an exhibition that looked at the way artists from the Renaissance to the early 20th century artists depicted dress and drapery

  • Accountancy as terrorism: ‘Christie Malry’s Own Double Entry’

    All over Hollywood, producers and screenwriters are pitching ‘high concept’ film projects that capitalise on current news headlines: urban terrorism, bombing Iraq, and the financial crises caused by accountancy malpractice. In 12 months’ time, our local multiplexes will be swamped…

  • Kassel Documenta

    Kassel Documenta is commonly compared to the Olympic games, but, being an inhabitant of former Eastern Empire, I remember great all-Union exhibitions held in the USSR, where regional unions of artists struggled fiercely for the right to ‘represent’. The rhetorical…

  • Ceri Richards – book review

    Mel Gooding’s new book on Ceri Richards, the first major publication on his work, establishes that Richards was one of the best and most significant artists of the 20th century in Britain. Gooding has also curated the exhibition at the…

  • Song of the Earth: European Artists and the Landscape – book review

    Mel Gooding and William Furlong. London: Thames and Hudson, 2002. ISBN 0 500 510164.

  • David Blackburn: The Sublime Landscape

    David Blackburn’s exhibition at the Hart Gallery in London coincides with the publication of The Sublime Landscape, by Charlotte Mullins. In a long interview with the artist by Ron Phillips, Blackburn acknowledges his debts to other artists, writers and scholars…

  • Yorkshire Sculpture Park

    Few now realise that the pioneering Yorkshire Sculpture Park has now existed for a quarter of a century, in its 550 acres near Wakefield.

  • Et tu, Vettriano

    The painter Jack Vettriano moved some four years ago from Scotland to London, and now lives and works in Chelsea. Vettriano’s maternal grandfather came to Scotland from Italy and drew with a skill which the young Vettriano sought emulate. Self-taught…

  • Switzerland invites the world

    Switzerland’s Expo’02 centres on the environment of the region of the Three Lakes, in the north-west tip of Switzerland that coincides with the boundaries of France and Germany. At Murten-Morat, Jean Nouvel was commissioned to design all the actual pavilions.…

  • Spirits drained: Puvis De Chavannes returns

    The National Gallery, London does not best mourn Ian MacGregor’s departure with this valedictory recovery of the work of Pierre-Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, (d.1898). Although the most famous muralist in France when he died aged 78, and often credited together…