Author: jaywp

  • The Glass Heart: Art, Industry & Collaboration

    This beguiling exhibition, which spans 170 years, reveals the impressive adaptability of glass in the most atmospheric of settings

  • Anselm Kiefer: Fallen Angels

    With a mix of new and old works, Kiefer draws us into a world where good and evil are blurred – and it’s hard not to see parallels with what is happening in Gaza

  • Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

    With works covering pregnancy, birth and nursing through to caring for older children, as well as miscarriage and involuntary childlessness, this show sets out to demonstrate that motherhood is a legitimate subject for contemporary art

  • Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World

    This major retrospective celebrates the work of a man whose atmospheric shots of New York street scenes made him one of the most important photographers of the postwar period

  • Paul Maheke: To be Blindly Hopeful

    This show sprang from a journal the artist kept during the Covid lockdowns in 2020-21, a time of intense introspection. Through film, drawings and paintings Maheke transports us through adversity to a place of hope

  • Matthew Wong | Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort

    Wong’s exuberant dreamscapes and imaginary worlds sprang from many influences, but his affinity for Van Gogh’s work lasted throughout his brilliant, though tragically short, career

  • Sharjah March Meeting 2024: Tawashjuat

    This year’s edition of the Sharjah Art Foundation’s March meeting focused on collectives, collaboration and social justice, a theme that had particular poignance in light of the war in Gaza

  • Martin Boyce – interview: ‘You’re both inside and outside. There’s this push and pull of place’

    Boyce’s show at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, offers three distinctive, in-between spaces for exploring the work’s ambiguities, somewhere between sculpture and infrastructure, exterior and interior architecture. He talks us through it  

  • Hanna Bekker vom Rath: A Rebel for Modern Art

    This richly documented show does justice to the feisty Bekker vom Rath, a German art collector, dealer and painter, who championed modern and contemporary art, even disobeying the dictates of the Nazi regime by organising secret exhibitions at her home

  • Infinite Variety: Harold Cohen and Cybernetics in the 1960s

    On the occasion of a show of Cohen’s work at Gazelli Art House in London, we consider the pioneering British artist’s transition from paint to code