Author: jaywp

Monuments for destruction

Image and Idol: Medieval Sculpture Tate Britain, to 3 March 2002
Anthony d’Offay

Anthony d’Offay’s recent and sudden announcement of closure seems shocking, if characteristically mysterious, after 36 years of meteoric rise. With an annual turnover of around $35 million the doors will close before Christmas to the triad of exhibition spaces which…
No trampoline needed for Manhattan now
Student Prince

The decision of Prince William to pursue Art History roused Evening Standard (London) art critic Brian Sewell to severely criticise the appropriateness of his choice of study. But as a foundation year curriculum it is broadly based: architectural history is…
South Bank, underneath the arches

… we while the time away. Well, it has taken several months in fact to appoint an architect in line with architect Rick Mather’s excellent Master Plan on London’s South Bank. That was two years ago. Then an architectural competition…
Risen Christ — spent force?

Michelangelo’s drawing ‘Study for the risen Christ’, has been suspended from export following arts minister Baroness Blackstone’s order, for a period until just before Christmas. Scotland’s National Galleries (Director-General Timothy Clifford) are believed to be the force behind this move.…
Paula Rego in Kendal

One of the best events of the summer, out of London (through 7 October) has been the exhibition, at the Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal, in the Lake District, of works completed in the last three years by the Portugese painter…
Mystery burger unearthed

In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum, in a recent delving, have just found a previously unidentified Hans Holbein miniature, thought to be of a goldsmith by the name of Hans. He was a close friend of Holbein, and set…
You beaut country

In his foreword to the exhibition, Julian Agnew extolls the virtues of Australian culture:
Hieronymus Bosch

Rotterdam, Musem Boijmans van Beuningen, through 11 November 2001.