Author: jaywp

Tai Shani, The World to Me Was a Secret: Caesious, Zinnober, Celadon, and Virescent

Shani’s interest in alternate worlds and modes of existence shines through in this surreal exhibition responding to the setting of Charles Jencks-designed Cosmic House
The Last Caravaggio

This show brings Caravaggio’s last known painting to London, along with documents telling its story, and revealing a little more about the mysterious last months of its troubled and hugely influential creator
Jerwood Survey III

This biennial touring exhibition presents new commissions by 10 early-career artists. The result is a visually and sensually intriguing show
The Mack: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow School of Art

This richly written and sensitive work traces Mackintosh’s masterpiece from the building’s inception, through its two devastating fires, in 2014 and 2018, to its current reconstruction
Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive

This not-to-be-missed exhibition includes a lifetime of Lijn’s works, providing new insights into her artistic vision and capacity to bridge the human and the technological in an elegant and affective fashion
Antony Gormley – interview: ‘What is made here is a repositioning of the relationship of body to ground’

Probably the UK’s best-known contemporary sculptor, Gormley has created a new ‘field’ of 100 life-size cast-iron versions of himself at the historic Houghton Hall in Norfolk, where he talked to us about the work
Mohammed Sami: Isthmus

In his new paintings, the rising Iraqi-born artist makes ambiguity alluring
Art Without Heroes: Mingei

This fabulous show is dedicated to Mingei, the influential folk-craft movement developed in Japan in the 1920s and 30s, in which traditional craft objects and unnamed artisans are valued for their cultural worth and aesthetic purity
Wayne Eager – interview: ‘In Central Australia, I was mesmerised by the bright light and colour in the wide, open landscape’

A three-month stay in Central Australia with his partner, the artist Marina Strocchi, turned into a 30-year sojourn. Eager talks about working with Indigenous people to further their art and witnessing a transformation in the art market’s view of Aboriginal…
Alex Ely – interview: ‘Ultimately the success of any building is how well it’s used and how well it’s stewarded’

What is the secret to making buildings that other architects admire and envy, but which are dedicated to the greater good? Mae Architects founder Alex Ely shares insights on the firm’s Stirling Prize-winning approach