Author: jaywp
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Marina Abramović takes over London
‘Four months ago I was in a coma… if I’d died, I’d be the only dead female artist in 250 years showing at the Royal Academy!’
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Playing With Fire
Sugimoto, known for his meticulously crafted photographs, here extends his experimentation with the medium as a result of returning to his New York studio after a three-year absence due to the Covid pandemic
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Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas
Raucous, bawdy, sweary and crude, this major survey comprises works that are not always easy to stomach, but which make an important comment on our experiences of sex, class and gender
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Eleanna Anagnos and Alexis Granwell: Shift. Breathe. Expand. Painting in Space
This apposite pairing of two conceptually rigorous artists provokes myriad questions about process, composition and the materiality of paper
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Hélio Oiticica: Waiting for the internal sun
A concise survey of the genre-hopping Brazilian artist shows him breaking new ground, even as his life took an unexpected turn
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Double Weave: Bourne and Allen’s Modernist Textiles
Partners in life and work, they supplied fabrics to Heal’s and Liberty, as well as for the film Ben-Hur and the interior of the Royal Festival Hall, yet Hilary Bourne and Barbara Allen are largely forgotten. This show makes clear…
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Inside Other Spaces. Environments By Women Artists 1956-1976
Many of the pioneers in environmental art were women, but their works were often ephemeral, destroyed once a show was over. Here, the curators have painstakingly recreated some of those works, putting their artists firmly back in the spotlight
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Lisetta Carmi: Identities
Motivated by a profoundly humanistic spirit, Lisetta Carmi photographed marginalised communities. One year after her death, the Estorick Collection’s exhibition introduces the UK audience to her images of great strength and tender fragility
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40th EVA International, 2023
Ireland’s biennial is this year based on the concept of gleaning, when unused crops are divided among these in need, and across the city of Limerick artistic offerings abound with positivity and collectivism
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Ave Libertatemaveamor – interview: ‘Contemplating the actions of the Russians helps me to be more sensitive to infernal images’
The Ukrainian artist who goes by the name of Ave Libertatemaveamor talks about life in her country since the Russian invasion, the mural she worked on with George Gittoes for the rebuilt House of Culture in Irpin, and why drawing…
