Author: jaywp
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Self-Determination: A Global Perspective
Numerous new nations sprang up after the first world war. This titanic exhibition explores the art that made them, exploding myths along the way
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Don Van Vliet: Standing on One Hand
An exhibition of oil paintings by the artist formerly known as Captain Beefheart has a strange allure, as long as you don’t think too hard
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Jaeeun Choi: La Vita Nuova
With projects including plans to drop seed bombs on Korea to studying what happens to paper if you bury it for years, this retrospective looks back over Choi’s 40-year career and her passion for nature and ecology
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Stepping Softly on the Earth
Twenty artists, mostly non-western and indigenous, consider how dam projects, diamond mining, monoculture and other human interventions have affected their lands and way of life
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Shezad Dawood: Leviathan
The gothic majesty of Salisbury Cathedral provides a suitable home for Dawood’s apocalyptic cycle
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Kim Lim: Space, Rhythm & Light
Strong, single-minded and uncompromising, Lim made a significant contribution to 20th-century British sculpture, but her work has been sadly overlooked since her death. This major museum show is a chance to put that right
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Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed
The Florentine painter’s life was sadly short, but his technical virtuosity shines through in the few works in his first monographic exhibition
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Jake Grewal – interview: ‘I don’t know where I make work from other than my experience and emotional response’
Grewal, whose compelling first solo institutional exhibition is now showing at Pallant House Gallery, discusses his painterly exploration of self through an amalgamation of automatic writing, direct, in-the-moment observation and a close attunement to his most personal experiences
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Bruce Munro – interview: ‘I was constantly telling people about this large-scale light project that I had to do at Uluru at all costs. I was obsessed’
Munro dreamed of installing Field of Light in the Australian desert. He explains how the monumental installation, involving 52,000 solar-powered lights, became a labour of love that took 24 years to come to fruition, saw him remortgage his house and…
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Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez and their Students – book review
This book shows how Anni Albers and Trude Guermonprez, teaching at a small arts college for just a few years in the early 20th century, had a lasting effect on the theory and practice of the craft
