Author: jaywp

  • Demarco returns

    This month, Richard Demarco reports here on a dramatic return visit to the Poland of Stanislawski, Borowski, and Kantor. Holder now of the Gold Order of Merit, Demarco is at last reaping the harvest of long years of travail and…

  • Tell that to Andy

    The phenomenal marketing jamboree associated with the current Warhol exhibition at Tate Modern would have brought a diffident smile to Andy Warhol if he could have seen it all. After the modest 10 entry fee (plus concessions) the 2,500 average…

  • American Beauty

    From the ‘American Sublime’ (at Tate Britain) to the beautiful at Tate Modern. The comments of UK leading critics have been many-thonged. ‘It’s a dumb deal: Andy Warhol was a lot smarter than Tate Modern’s disappointing retrospective lets on’, said…

  • Letter from Poland

    Thursday 14 February The day’s programme began with 10 am meeting at the office of Andrzej Sontag, the Director of the Lodz Region for the Department of Culture, Education and Sport. Also present was his colleague and deputy, Marian Labedziv,…

  • American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States 1820-1880

    Tate Gallery, Tate Britain, through 19 May 2002.

  • Cromwell as art enthusiast

    Cromwell as art enthusiast Only thanks to Oliver Cromwell did a very significant proportion of the art collection of King Charles I come to form the basis of the Prado Museum in Madrid. In 1649, with the king beheaded, there…

  • Arne Jacobsen Centenary

    February sees the end of the celebrations marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Danish architect and designer, Arne Jacobsen

  • Andy Warhol: A retrospective at Tate Modern

    Tate Modern, through 1 April 2002.

  • Letter from Sydney

    Nick Waterlow The year 2000 in Sydney was a hard act to follow. Every cynic – and there were many in the art world – who fled the Olympics was greeted on their homecoming with adulatory anecdotes, from the Games…

  • The authentic and the twitch: architecture, tourism and simulacrum

    Increasingly, we now seek to verify what is presented as ‘real’: we are wary of ‘simulacrum’ having perhaps enjoyed ‘something having the form or appearance of a certain thing’ or having experienced ‘mere image, a specious imitation or likeness of…