Author: jaywp

  • Rembrandt’s women reach London

    This summer’s Edinburgh exhibition (National Galleries of Scotland) has reached the Royal Academy. Critics feel that this is a less successful hang, however. Then there is the conjunction with Auerbach’s exhibition, possibly too sharply disjunctive a combination of ages and…

  • New York, 25 October 2001

    There is still a queue on Saturdays outside the Museum of Modern Art, where Giacometti is showing superbly. But things are different from before in Chelsea. It’s all in the mind’s eye. Gagosian Gallery is showing ‘Torqued Spirals, Toruses and…

  • Lush countess banned from tube for bare bosom

    Well, in a manner of speaking. Viacom Outdoor vets all advertising for London Underground. It was announced that an uncovered breast and nipple would not be accepted for the National Portrait Gallery’s poster advertising the ‘Painted Ladies’ exhibition, (even if…

  • John Berger returns

    John Berger has made a very welcome return to print in London this autumn, and his presence is well felt. In Modern Painters (Autumn Issue) Berger interviews Maggi Hambling about her drawings, bereavement, nakedness and likeness. He has also written…

  • Critical eye

    A very recent work by artist Damien Hirst has been all too rapidly binned by self-made critic and cleaner Emmanuel Asare. The Eyestorm Gallery, Maddox Street, London W1 (off Regent Street) had set ready their window with Hirst’s installation (untitled)…

  • Caro’s challenges

    Sir Anthony Caro does have independence of mind: he has stoically resisted the blandishments of the Royal Academy, an accolade that most of his distinguished contemporaries have felt unable to resist. Caro’s exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (opened 26 September)…

  • Frank Auerbach

    Royal Academy of Arts, London, through 12 December.

  • The Print in Italy 1550-1620

    ‘The Print in Italy 1550–1620’ at the British Museum (27 September 2001–6 January 2002) is an exceptional exhibition of over 150 works from the museum’s own collection as well as a number of important loans. It is the first exhibition…

  • The Las Vegas Guggenheim Museum

    Rem Koolhaas, architect and author of Delirious New York, an important architectural tract of the mid-1970s, then made a telling New York skyscraper image entitled ‘Dream of Liberty’ with Madelon Vriesendorp. September 11 will have brought to mind this picture…

  • The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize 2001

    This year’s award ceremony in the Great Court of the British Museum (itself not a contender) was memorable in that the favourite didn’t win. Last year considerable added interest to the learned deliberations of the judges was given by Tracey…