Author: jaywp
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Francesc Ruiz – interview: ‘In the realm of drawing, a place of fantasy and abstraction, nearly anything goes’
The artist talks about his alternative porn installation, House of Fun, now on at Norway’s Momentum, launching a porn studies institute and having sex with insects
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Alvaro Barrington – interview: ‘When you look at my paintings, you’re encountering parts of my identity’
The New York-based painter talks about the artists he steals from, integrating his lived experience into art – and being the first artist asked to design a float for the Notting Hill Carnival
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Takis
This exhibition of work by Takis is mesmerising. His sculptures use magnetic energy to create sound and movement in a manner that is sometimes poetic, sometimes joyful and always haunting
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Rosa Johan Uddoh: Studies for Impartiality
Rosa Johan Uddoh continues her exploration of popular culture from a black feminist perspective by reimagining the BBC broadcaster Moira Stuart
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Joomla User – 69
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Joomla User – 68
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David Lewis, Billy Gerard Frank: Epic Memory – Venice Biennale 2019
Two quite different artists who have distinct and diverse relationships with the islands of Grenada and its people meditate on the impact these roots have had on their work and their identities
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Ivon Hitchens: Space Through Colour
This thought-provoking exhibition, the largest on Hitchens since 1989, deftly explores the enigmas of his work in a career that spanned an incredible six decades
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Architecture of London
With works from the 17th century to the present day, this impressive exhibition views the changing nature of London’s rich and varied architecture through the eyes of artists across the years
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Callum Hüseyin – interview: ‘Music has the power to shock people in a way that statistics might not’
Taking as inspiration the stories of scientists, donors and patients and creating a breathtakingly beautiful – and, as yet, unfinished – piece of music, Hüseyin is collaborating with the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to fundraise…
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Cindy Sherman
Sherman was fascinated by the ambiguous nature of appearances and she throws out clues to entice viewers into forming their own interpretations of her work
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Cutting Edge: Modernist British Printmaking
Dulwich Picture Gallery shines a well-deserved spotlight on an almost-forgotten era of future-facing printmaking, which adroitly captured the thrill of modern urban life
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Kevork Mourad: the making of Seeing Through Babel
We visited Mourad at the Ismaili Centre in London to witness the creation of his latest work, a six-metre hanging sculpture. He explains the ideas behind it and the techniques he uses
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Andrea Luka Zimmerman – interview: ‘This is how I work in films, it’s really a layering, like an archaeological dig’
Luka Zimmerman talks about her interest in people on the margins, her collaborative process, and that fine line between reality and fiction, explored in her latest film, Here for Life
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Natalia Goncharova
This landmark retrospective highlights the breathtaking variety of Goncharova’s output, from religious painting to Russian folk art to designs for French fashion houses and costumes for the Ballets Russes
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Nicole Eisenman: Groupings of Works from Fountain
Eisenman’s Groupings of Works from Fountain, three sculptures joyfully spouting or spitting water into the air in sparkling arcs, were unveiled last month at the Fenway in Boston. The extreme likability of these oversized creatures is sure to make them…
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Nikhil Chopra – interview: ‘I try to hold a mirror up to the world and capture what is being reflected’
Nikhil Chopra, the 2019-2020 artist in residence at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, talks about his live performance there later this year, and about wanting to give the artist as much importance as a scientist, a journalist or a…
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Liz Johnson Artur: If You Know the Beginning, the End Is No Trouble
The photographer celebrates 28 years living among south London’s black British community with this thoughtful and affectionate portrait
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Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold
A miraculous retrospective revivifies the Argentine-Italian painter and sculptor, laying bare the breath of his vision and revealing an artist constantly surging forward
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Nunzio: The Shock of Objectivity
The elegantly cryptic, scorched sculptures and lustrous lead reliefs of the Italian artist Nunzio are, for the first time, on view in London at Mazzoleni
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Ekaterina Degot – interview: ‘We now have an abyss on all fronts – ecologically, but also politically’
Degot discusses Steirischer Herbst, an annual art festival held in Graz, Austria. Last year, her first as the festival’s curator, it tackled the rise of populism across Europe. This year’s iteration, Grand Hotel Abyss, examines hedonism and whether Graz, in…
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Barbara Takenaga, Linda Fleming, Jaq Chartier, Alison Hall at Robischon Gallery, Denver
Although these four solo exhibitions – hosted side by side – are each distinctive, they all contain “slow” works that make you focus on them as they present ideas about abstraction, painting, sculpture and beauty
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Ibrahim El-Salahi – interview: ‘Drawing for me is a kind of meditation’
Using his art as a form of meditation to alleviate chronic back pain, Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi turns his medication packets into miniature canvases. He talks here about his intricate drawings and how they are enlarged on to canvases –…
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Lubaina Himid – interview: ‘It is my intention to create artworks that examine ideas about how to invent new rules by which to live’
Lubaina Himid’s first solo exhibition in the US opens this week, debuting works that continue her longstanding project on identity, representation and survival. She talks here about this new work and her pioneering role in the 1980s in the British…
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