Author: jaywp

  • Comment on September 11

    Some happenings are so extraordinary that they outweigh, at least for the present, their ramifications. No apocalyptic event before September was enacted in full view of almost the whole world. Billions of people watched on television as one of the…

  • Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

    The paintings on show at the RA have an effect that it would have been impossible to anticipate; the grand space of the galleries and the juxtaposition of the paintings achieve resonance which would have been impossible in smaller spaces.…

  • Surviving fragment

    Philippe de Montebello, the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York has emerged as one of the strongest supporters of the idea that a monument should be created with the surviving fragment of one wall of the World…

  • Jewish Museum in Berlin opens Exhibition

    Jewish Museum in Berlin opens exhibition

  • Michael Andrews revisited

    If there was ever a clearer purpose and definition of the respective rationale behind the division of Tate works into Tate Modern and Tate Britain, the present retrospective of the painter Michael Andrews is a reassuring touchstone. Whereas  (not even…

  • Balthus

    Palazzo Grassi, Venice through January 2002

  • September Eleventh: European thoughts

    The New York atrocity bears many aspects: barbaric evil of the most primitive kind accompanied by the most sophisticated high technology is one. As John Bloom, who saw it from below, reported in the Sunday Telegraph, it was the skilled,…

  • Experiment Experiencia: Art in Brazil 1958-2000

    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, through 21 October 2001.

  • Milton Avery Late Works — Landscapes and Seascapes, 1951–1963

    Avery never achieved the critical acclaim that he deserved in his lifetime, and yet his pivotal role in the development of Abstract Expressionism is unquestioned. Avery is very much a painter’s painter, and exerted great influence on the generation of…

  • Ed Ruscha: The Mountains

    Inverleith House, Edinburgh, through 14 October 2001.