Author: jaywp

  • Awfully Chris

    Chris Ofili is the first painter in ten years to have actually won the Turner Prize. His show at the Victoria Miro Gallery (ended 3 August) further consolidated his reputation. Four vast paintings fill the lower gallery, running up to…

  • Chelsea physick

    The famous SW3 sanctuary has opened its gates to contemporary art this summer. The oldest botanical gardens in Europe have invited a group of artists to make works for installation within that convey the essence both of the almost secret…

  • Buren far from boring

    Daniel Buren, the French experimental artist whose ambition since the 1960s has been to remove apparent human involvement (and error?) from painting, is currently occupying the entire sixth floor (2500 square metre) of the Pompidou Centre with 61 rooms to…

  • The mid-Atlantic sea contemporary art bubble burst

    There was one a bright new venture called Eyestorm, which would revolutionise the way the general public could buy art. It got off to a zoomy start in 1999, too late at the top of the dotcom boom. It would…

  • British Museum’s continuing cash crisis

    The real problem for the British Museum, as Suzanna Taverne said, has been the fact that the government grant has been cut by 30%.

  • Beekeeper in Swansea

    Bill Woodrow has produced an excellent thematic essay on the age-old allegorical figure of the beekeeper, on show at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea until 17 November. The elemental quality of such figures, their protective and protected engagement…

  • August high season for old master recoveries

    August high season for old master recoveries

  • Spirits raised: art in the making

    October 27 sees the opening of a major and scholarly exhibition at the National Gallery, London. Images have been retrieved from the underdrawings to major oil and tempera works by Raphael, Brueghel and Cranach the Elder, and Carlo Crevelli, as…

  • Matisse Picasso

    One of the finest exhibitions of many years, it is a collaboration between the Tate, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée Picasso with the Musée National d’Art Moderne/Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York

  • Daniel Libeskind: Imperial War Museum at Salford, Manchester

    Daniel Libeskind’s new building, an adjunct to the Imperial War Museum in Lambeth, South London, is situated beside the Manchester Ship Canal in Salford. Somehow this was a perfect ‘stealth’ affair. While the launch was crowded, very few of those…