Author: jaywp

Industrial action at Tate Modern? It seems a contradiction in terms. How can the great emporium dedicated to displaying the promise of a better world be riven with strikes? The Institution of Professionals, Managers, and Specialists no less, is representing…

The Arts Council of England will appoint regional officers to replace the ten regional arts boards. Chairman Gerry Robinson’s efforts to replace the regional boards have met with sheer opposition from the supposedly ‘autonomous’ quangoids. Local authorities are to have…

The English sensibility over architecture today has been shaped more by Sir Niklaus Pevsner than anyone it seems. He wrote, or jointly authored, some 42 volumes of The Buildings of England, county by county, before dying in l983. This magnificent…

Mark Getty, with his uncle Gordon Getty, has given 10 million to the National Gallery, London. Mark is the creator of Getty Images, one of the world’s major digital archives. He is one of two sons of Sir Paul Getty’s…

Neil McGregor, Director, has achieved a remarkable re-composition: Masaccio’s ‘Virgin and Child’ of 1426 (this year is the 600th anniversary of the artist’s birth) which comprises a central panel (‘Virgin and Child’) owned by the Gallery, along with the ‘Adoration…

This week historic drawings valued at over DM 30 million have been returned to the Bremen Kunstwerein, their original home. Albrecht Durer’s ‘The Women’s Bathhouse’ — a masterly depiction of nude females enjoying their ablutions — has long been missed.…

Bradford city will be the home of the newly conjoined collections of the Royal Photographic Society and of the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television. Lord Puttnam, matchmaker of this inspired marriage, and appointed Trustee, commented, ‘When two unique…

Paris comment: e-letter from Paris Art Populaire, Liza Lou’s Back Yard

‘Departures’ at Vessel, 114 Kensington Park Road, London W 11. 27 June —31 August