Author: jaywp
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Sara Shamma – interview: ‘When I paint, I am in a state like meditation’
Shamma’s latest exhibition of new paintings responds to works by greats from Rembrandt to Rubens. Here, she talks about her intuitive practice, the importance of music to her work, the impact of war in her native Syria, and women and…
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Pasquarosa: From Muse to Painter
Remembered more as an artist’s model than a painter, this largely forgotten female artist is brought back into the spotlight in this charmingly fresh and colourful exhibition
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Jonathan Jones: Untitled (Transcriptions of Country)
Jones collaborates with recent migrants to Australia to show how the culture and practices of its Indigenous people can be shared across nations, as they explore the plants, animals and artefacts taken from the continent by a French scientific expedition…
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Why contemporary art has to fight for survival in Cuenca
On the occasion of the Ecuadorian city’s 16th biennial, we look at how religion, deeply conservative views and lack of money work against contemporary artists, and how the biennial’s director, Hernán Pacurucu, and others are determined to see change
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Emilie L Gossiaux: Other-Worlding
Gossiaux lost her sight in an accident 13 years ago. This show reads like a lover letter to her guide dog, London, as well as providing a clear message about interspecies respect
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Ruth Orkin: Women
She photographed celebrities such as Lauren Bacall and Doris Day and worked for Life magazine and Look, but she has remained largely unknown in Europe. This gem of an exhibition aims to change that
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William Pope.L: ‘There should be a porosity to the work when you’re building it, envisioning it’
At the opening of Hospital at the South London Gallery, his first major institutional UK show since 2011, the US artist talked about the themes of care and precarity in his work. With his sudden death just weeks later, in…
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Belles Choses. Art Nouveau Around 1900
The Bröhan-Museum is celebrating its 50th anniversary with this exhibition looking at French and Belgian Art Nouveau, with some items that have previously never been shown in public
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Andrew Cranston – interview: ‘Trust in things around you being the stuff of art’
As his first public exhibition opens in Wakefield, the brilliant Scottish painter talks about Franz Kafka, DH Lawrence, fried eggs and punctums
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James Lingwood and Michael Morris, former Artangel directors – interview: ‘The art world audience was for us the least interesting audience’
Their legacy includes Rachel Whiteread’s cast of a terraced house, Roger Hiorns transformation of a council flat into a blue crystal cave and Michael Landy’s destruction of all his possessions in a department store window. They discuss how the art…
