Author: jaywp

  • Hello Culture

    Matthew Collings’ masterly series on British television (Channel 4) has essentially redrawn the role of the medium in assessing cultural values. An appropriate, 21st century lope through the flowing, eddying pressures of media on historical cultures, the series should have…

  • Goodbye Culture

    The latest blow is the emasculation (yes, Germaine) of critique on television. Mark Lawson is a current victim. Because it’s Edinburgh Festival and Fringe Time, Kirsty Wark replaces Collings as the presenter of the Newsnight Arts Review. The assumption that…

  • Dan Flavin

    Serpentine Gallery, London, through 23 September 2001.

  • Illusion – Japanese Photography

    ‘Illusion – Japanese photography’ at the Kulturhuset consists of the work of eleven Japanese photographers connected by a ‘surrealistic, dream-like quality’. The photographs on display are intended to act as ‘an exposé of Japanese photography from the 1930s up to…

  • The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller

    The Surrealist and the Photographer: Roland Penrose and Lee Miller Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, through 9 September

  • Peter Fuller: Image for Sale

    Peter Fuller: image for sale Phillips Salesroom, Edinburgh Tragic story. Portrait of Peter Fuller by John Bellany

  • Claude Quiche, Claude Lorrain and the World of the Gods

    Musee d’Art Ancien et Contemporain, Epinal, France through 20 August 2001

  • Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (£25,000)

    Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Prize (25,000)

  • David Sylvester

    The death of the author, historian and critic David Sylvester on l9 June, aged 76, has now robbed the world of a leading expert on Francis Bacon — his parents had been Russian-Jewish silver experts and dealers — whilst Rene…

  • Rogers’ Vicissitudes

    It was announced in early July that the Welsh Assembly did not wish to proceed with Lord Rogers’ design for the new Assembly. Meanwhile, the Greater London Authority’s ‘City Hall’ building by Rogers’ contemporary and former partner, Lord (Norman) Foster,…