Author: jaywp

  • A pelican in the wilderness – book review

    A short review does not do justice to this splendid publication by novelist Isabel Colegate, published to coincide with the exhibition ‘A pelican in the wilderness: hermits and solitude in art’ at the Holborne Museum of Art in Bath (16…

  • Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries

    Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries

  • Peter Doig 100 years ago

    Victoria Miro Gallery, London 13 April – 22 May 2002

  • Ken Kiff – book review

    Ken Kiff (1935–2001): Retrospective. Marlborough Fine Art Gallery, London.

  • Gerhard Richter: Forty years of painting

    The enigma of the German painter Gerhard Richter (b.1932) is finally explored through Robert Storr’s grand exhibition this spring in New York

  • Body Worlds: Fascination Beneath the Surface

    Body Worlds exhibits human corpses: skinned, gutted, flayed, peeled, shelled, filleted, opened up – dissected in every imaginable way. The cadavers are perfectly preserved by infusion with plastics and then posed in order to enlighten as science and elevate as…

  • Walk-over

    The current chairman of Christies, Lord Hindlip, has just pulled off a dramatic coup. Christies have been engaged by the Marquess of Bath to sell an estimated £15 million worth of art and antiques from Longleat. Compared with embattled Sotheby’s,…

  • Richard Demarco’s Edinburgh

    Richard Demarco’s Edinburgh Edinburgh belongs to a special kind of city deserving of the UNESCO designation as a world heritage site. These are cities of the imagination; cities which exist on the edge, where our memories and daydreams, our histories…

  • Great day for Turner

    No, not the Turner Prize. What Sandy Nairne, Director of Programmes at the Tate Gallery, was referring to was actually the final solution for the Turner Bequest. The 30,000 works on paper and 350 canvasses left to the nation on…

  • University of gloom

    There is anguish at St Andrews University, Scotland, that Prince William is not over-enthusiastic about his time there. Perhaps art history needs to be made more inspiring. There are not many masterpieces in St Andrews (paintings we mean) and, as…