Author: jaywp

Moon/King: The Work and Friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon – 1956 to 1973

The pair met as students at Cambridge and remained friends until Moon’s death at the age of 39. This vibrant and colourful exhibition makes clear the influence they had on one another’s work
The Korean Moment

A flurry of museum and gallery exhibitions flags a surge of interest in Korean art. The most compelling is the Hammer Museum’s Only the Young
Harold Cohen: AARON

Through paintings, works on paper and projections, this exhibition traces the evolution of AARON, the earliest artificial intelligence (AI) program for creating art, conceived by the pioneering British painter Harold Cohen
Gayle Chong Kwan – interview: ‘I’ve made a connection between displays of constructed power and childlike play’

The artist talks about using sand and sugar to make historic and contemporary connections between Mauritius and the Isle of Wight and between colonial power, indentured labour, leisure and childhood
Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind

Spanning seven decades of the artist’s groundbreaking work, from the 1950s to now, some done with John Lennon, the takeaway message is the hope that perhaps world peace really is possible
Leo Robinson – interview: ‘Human beings need meaningful symbols and narratives in order to understand themselves and their shared connections’

Robinson, whose exhibition Dream-Bridge-Omniglyph is now at the London Mithraeum, considers his reimagining of arcane lost worlds, Jungian dream theory and the potential curse incited by layers of ancient mythologies being incorporated into a contemporary temple of finance
Outi Pieski – interview: ‘Contemporary art museums in general are spaces for dreaming and experimenting’

Small carved figures, knotted fringes and historic hats represent Pieski’s Sámi heritage as do her luminous painted landscapes and they work powerfully in her show at Tate St Ives to highlight systemic injustices to land and people
These Mad Hybrids: John Hoyland and Contemporary Sculpture

In this joyous and eccentric show, Hoyland’s jaunty ceramic sculptures are shown alongside equally playful sculptures from contemporary artists including Hew Locke and Phyllida Barlow
Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art

The 50 artists in this formidable show have all used textiles to tell powerful stories of resistance to social, political and ecological ills
Ronald Davis – interview: ‘Two artists who use perspective in their work are Duchamp and Davis. I’m kind of proud of that’

Davis talks about his art and how he started out in the 1960s, his friendship with Judy Chicago, playing chess with David Hockney and having a Scotch with Clement Greenberg