Author: jaywp

  • Obituary: Raymond Durgnat

    Hard to imagine that Ray Durgnat is not still writing and talking. Since his books of film critique still abound, unlike many of the theorists of the l970s whom he so criticised. Films and Feeling (l967) was surely, and still…

  • John Bellany milestone

    The Scottish painter John Bellany will reach 60 this June, and there will be shows in Italy (Barga), Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Roger Bilcliffe, Glasgow. Not a bad result for a painter who nearly…

  • Mirror, mirror

    No single model of self-portraiture can stand for the experiences of women generally, or fully express the rich interplay that exists between the examination of the reflected image and the exploration of the social dimensions of lived experience, but self-representation…

  • The Banksias: Watercolours

    ‘The Banksias: Watercolours’, by Celia Rosser at the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne (5 April—30 June 2002) marks the publication of Volume III of The Banksias by Rosser and Alex George. The publication marks the completion of a 25-year-old project…

  • The Boyds; Australian Gothic: a life of Albert Tucker; Sidney Nolan – book reviews

    The Boyds Brenda Niall. (The Miegunya Press, Melbourne University Press, Australia). $A49.95 April 2002 ISBN 0-522-84871-0

  • Mapping the process

    A well-assembled exhibition opens on 31 May at the Essor Gallery, London. Significant among the exhibitions are works by Dan Graham, Sigmar Polke, and Johannes Brus. Dan Graham creates conceptual buildings, making some proposals about changes in lifestyle for consumers,…

  • Kazimir Malevich – The Blackest Square

    The fourth ‘Black Square’ by Kazimir Malevich belonging to Inkombank, which collapsed during the financial crisis in 1998, is now exhibited in the Hermitage. This icon of modernism found its final sanctuary among the masterpieces at the Hermitage exactly in…

  • Skythian baba: A painting counter-revolution

    Natalia Goncharova: The Russian Years. Russian Museum, Benois Wing, St. Petersburg. From 25 April to 15 July, 2002.

  • Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation

    In vast contrast to Tate Modern’s Warhol exhibition earlier this year, the Picasso Matisse which is about to open and other blockbuster museum exhibitions, Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation at the Hayward Gallery was not only a beautifully curated…

  • Turner Prize 2002

    As rumoured, Madonna really will be presenting the 2001 Turner Prize on 9 December in London. This is an amazing coup for the organisers. ‘La Ciccione’ is the perfect choice for an award now saturated with popular culture. Short-listed artists…