Author: jaywp

Tate Modern, still puzzled by the mixed reception of its current blockbuster, Century City, is spinning hard on the permanent collection and its popularity with ‘ordinary citizens’. Sometimes Tate Britain benefits from the spin-off. Stanley Spencer’s ‘Double Nude Portrait: the…

Christoph Grunenberg is the new director, and has been there barely a month. He confronts a major challenge, coming at a time when the city museums are reeling from the tragic death of Liverpool’s Director of Museums and Galleries, Sir…

Lille is suddenly not terminus but interchange: in bold on the travelmap, gratis Rem Koolhas, the doyen of Euro-architects. The dramatic new interchange complex now allows us to stop, or ‘alight here’ as genteel Britrail signs used to read. The…

Daniel Libeskind is no stranger to Australia and has visited Melbourne. It was something of a surprise to learn that, such was his following, the competition-winning team of Ashton Raggatt McDougal have deployed identifiably Libeskind architecture in the section of…

A little publicised coming-together of British national and regional museums and galleries is emerging as a major line-up of talent for the next autumn and winter seasons. The National Portrait Gallery in London will offer ‘Painted Ladies’, revealing the portraits…

At last Tracey Emin is being recognised as the long-term, serious and committed artist that she undoubtedly has been, with a tried-and-tested Camusian philosophy born of hard experience and free of middle-class posturing. So, she entraps voyeurs, masochists, egocentrists, bureaucrats,…

If the splatter of decadence seems original at the ICA, take a look back at Creative Quarters, at the Museum of London – where Augustus Egg, painter of the Past and Present I, II and III series in Tate Britain,…

JULIAN OPIE, LISSON GALLERY, LONDON NW1 through 17 March

GOYA, Hayward Gallery , London SE1 through 13 May.