Author: jaywp
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Leonor Antunes: a seam, a surface, a hinge or a knot – Venice Biennale 2019
Leonor Antunes combines her sculpture and craft to open up conversations within architectural spaces. Here she discusses the 20th-century figures, both known and lesser known, who inspired her Portugal installation for the Venice Biennale
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This Is What It Is to Be Happy
What is it to be happy in an age where mental health problems are so prevalent? How can communing with nature, externalising the internal – both metaphorically and literally – help with this? This slickly curated three-person show delves deep,…
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Petra Bauer – interview: ‘The crucial thing was to make sure the sex workers were the ones leading the discussions, that they were the ones with agency’
Inspired by feminist film practitioners who emphasise the importance of making films with their subjects, not about them, Workers! is very much a collaboration between film-maker Petra Bauer and SCOT-PEP, a sex worker-led organisation in Edinburgh
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Renate Bertlmann: Discordo Ergo Sum – Venice Biennale 2019
Renate Bertlmann’s work is rooted in 1970s feminism, yet her message is entirely contemporary. She talks to us about celebrating sensuality and honesty of emotional expression –anger as well as tenderness, fear and lust
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Keith Tyson – interview: ‘I’m quite happy for the world to seep through me and for the work to just emerge’
The artist talks about the joys of scaling back, relearning the craft of painting, and why the flower paintings in his new show, Life Still, at Hauser & Wirth, London, are about so much more than flowers
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Milan Triennale XXII: Broken Nature – Design Takes on Human Survival
Under the stewardship of MoMA’s Paola Antonelli, the revitalised exhibition turns its eyes to our impending doom – and what design can do to make amends
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Eva Rothschild: The Shrinking Universe – Venice Biennale 2019
Eva Rothschild’s installation in Venice’s Arsenale summons the spirit of infrastructure, rubble and monuments of disposable (yet not disposable) material. She hopes it will encourage a more direct interaction and encounter with the work
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Jock McFadyen – interview: ‘The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition doesn’t get a fair crack of the whip from critics’
McFadyen, known for his urban landscapes and putting the marginal centre stage in his paintings, is the co-ordinator of this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It’s been challenging and exciting, he says, but he’s finding the baggage of its reputation…
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Motions of This Kind: Propositions and Problems of Belatedness
Three curators and 11 artists retell the colonial history of the Philippines through subjective and personal frames
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Sean Edwards: Undo Things Done – Venice Biennale 2019
Sean Edwards discusses growing up in a community with low expectations and expressing the most honest version of self as an artist, through his multi-media Wales in Venice installation Undo Things Done
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Whitney Biennial 2019
Edition 2019 looks great, goes wide and speaks loudly, but is it off mission? Lost in this bi-coastal perceived zeitgeist of identity politics is an unbiased survey of art-making with no agenda but the deep need to make it, and…
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Casey Reas – interview: ‘There is an increased understanding that software is central to our lives’
Reas is known as the man who helped to create the open-source programming language Processing and brought coding within the grasp of visual artists. Here, he talks about how his work has changed over the course of his career and…
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Orson Welles: the graphic artist
A film and a book on Welles’s artwork provide another lens through which to observe one of cinema’s most fascinating protagonists
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Frieze New York 2019
This year’s fair demonstrated a more open-ended approach than usual, exhibiting and promoting diverse art-making practices. By devoting attention to new trends, as well as to forgotten and little-known artists, the organisers created a well-balanced and engaging display
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Imaginary Cities
The digital artist Michael Takeo Magruder transforms urban maps from the British Library into data-driven artworks
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Lawrence Lek – interview: ‘AI could become the ultimate content creation mechanism. It could also signal the death of the author’
Lek talks about artificial intelligence taking over from human creativity, and AIDOL, his feature-length film on the subject, now showing at Sadie Coles, London
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Victor Wong – interview: ‘The human is inspired by the machine and the machine is modified by the human’
Artist-inventor Victor Wong talks about his robot artist AI Gemini, how he feels about his invention and how it might develop in the future
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Nye Thompson – interview: ‘The bots are actually the primary audience for the show’
In her project The Seeker, a system of machines looking at images on screen, analysing them and whispering to one other, we humans are merely peripheral intrusions, says Thompson. It’s scary, but exciting
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Joanna Piotrowska: All Our False Devices
In this installation at Tate Britain, Piotrowska’s black-and-white photos and 16mm films of intimate, airless interiors expose the latent erotics of the home
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Jack Whitten: Jack’s Jacks
Embellished with sparkling gemstones and richly coloured tiles, Whitten’s memorial paintings on show here are not only extraordinarily beautiful, but communicate so much about the artists and musicians to whom they are dedicated
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Artist Rooms: Self Evidence – Photographs by Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe
In their intimate and groundbreaking portraits, Woodman, Arbus and Mapplethorpe dared to show the diversity of identity and their struggle to exist on their own terms
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Yorkshire Sculpture Park opens Weston visitor centre
A visitor pavilion by Feilden Fowles opens up an overlooked area of the 500-acre sculpture park. The Weston responds to its setting with a sensitive design – part sculpture, part architecture – utterly in tune with the landscape
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Angelica Mesiti – interview: ‘I really want to maintain ambiguity and possibility in my work’
Representing the Australian Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale, Angelica Mesiti is showing a multiscreen video installation entitled Assembly, which uses music to explore the power and complexities of collectivity
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Chihuly at Kew: Reflections on Nature
As an artist who seeks to create works that appear as if they came from nature, placing interventions throughout such a beautiful botanic garden, Dale Chihuly succeeds in mirroring and augmenting its pre-existing splendour
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