Author: jaywp
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Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
This show takes us through the ephemera of Kubrick’s films – from female mannequins and a giant shiny white penis from A Clockwork Orange to a letter to the director from the woman who played Lolita – but is it…
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Antonello da Messina
A must-see exhibition at Milan’s Palazzo Reale unites two-thirds of the surviving paintings by Sicily’s greatest Renaissance painter
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Aliza Nisenbaum – interview: ‘I was torn between wanting to be a social worker or a painter’
The Mexican-born, New York-based artist talks about her first UK public commission, a mural at Brixton underground station, which offers an intimate portrayal of Transport for London staff as part of the Art on the Underground series
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Jonathan Baldock: Facecrime
Baldock looks as if he is having fun, pulling faces in mud and decorating them in glaze, and the mood is infectious. He seems less interested in the details of cultural history than in producing the aesthetic of the ruin…
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Jonathan Monk: Exhibit Model Four – plus invited guests
This exhibition comprises a wallpaper of Monk’s photographs from the past 20 years, along with artworks from a sprawling list of his ‘invited guests’
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Irina Nakhova – interview: ‘I want my works to provoke curiosity’
The Russian artist talks about her latest exhibition, Museum on the Edge, at the Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, and explains why she sees art not as a profession, but rather as her way of being
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Sea Star: Sean Scully at the National Gallery
In this exhibition of more than 30 of Scully’s paintings, prints and pastels, JMW Turner’s The Evening Star provides the jumping-off point for the artist’s works
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Tadao Ando – Emaki Drawings
At this French sculpture park, whose landscape is dotted with his structures, the Japanese architect has designed, in his inimitable style, a new pavilion to exhibit drawings of 10 or so of his schemes
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Oscar Murillo: Violent Amnesia
Spread across the various spaces of Kettle’s Yard, Murillo’s works address the recurrent theme of the movement of people across borders and human labour in a global economy
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Balkrishna Doshi: Architecture for the People
This comprehensive exhibition guides us through the creative world of this Pritzker Prize-winning architect, whose vision and inventiveness have empowered the people who use his buildings
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Wong Ping: Golden Shower
At Kunsthalle Basel, Hong Kong-born animator Wong Ping creates a seductive physical world for his grotesque and sexually charged animations with installation and sculptures
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Allan Sekula: Photography, A Wonderfully Inadequate Medium
A career-spanning presentation of the late photographer and theorist shows an artist redefining the capabilities of his medium
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Laura Buckley – interview: ‘I enjoy watching the people in the work as much as the work itself’
Buckley talks about her sculpture and video Fata Morgana, currently on show at the Saatchi Gallery, using her work as a catharsis for difficult times – and the pros and cons of the Instagram moment
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Henry Moore Drawings: The Art of Seeing
Although Henry Moore is best known as a sculptor, drawing was critical to his artistic practice. This exhibition is the largest of Moore’s drawings in more than 40 years
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Anne Imhof: Sex
Spending four hours at Imhof’s live works is like Waiting for Godot, for the slacker generation. The audience turns out to be the most fascinating element of the exhibition
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Emma Kunz – Visionary Drawings: An exhibition conceived with Christodoulos Panayiotou
Kunz was a spiritual healer who saw her drawings – all done with crayons and pencil on graph paper and some aided by divination with a pendulum – as part of her research-led practice
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Biosphere – The Shed at Hudson Yards opens
Pioneering and Olympian, a $475m arts centre anchoring the south end of a shiny new enclave on Manhattan’s Lower West Side hopes to reach a broader community with immersive, intuitive and groundbreaking programming. Can emerging art thrive in such weighted…
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Daniel Steegmann Mangrané: The Word for World is Forest
Step into this show and you find yourself immersed in the Brazilian rainforest, as the artist draws you in with installation, film and VR to highlight the plight one of the world’s most endangered ecosystems
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Ronny Sen – interview: ‘The work is about the apocalypse in a certain way, where everything will go to the fire and the dust’
Sen talks about photographing the out-of-control fires burning underground in the coal mines of Jharia, India, how he ensures every image has something it reveals and something it hides, and the death of Kolkata
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Jos Tilson – interview: ‘Motherhood is a form of creativity, and one which I totally believe in’
Tilson has combined the ancient craft of hand-weaving with the language of modern art alongside an obsessive approach to sculptures in clay. She talks here about Italy, her passion for architecture and what’s wrong with the #MeToo campaign
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The Power of Intention: Reinventing the (Prayer) Wheel
The exhibition is not only a visual and intellectual tour de force, but also offers spiritual fulfilment, immersing the viewer in an atmosphere of exploration of ancient Buddhist concepts and practices as seen through contemporary art
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Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable
This overarching retrospective covers Holzer’s 40 years as an artist activist, from her printed slogans on T-shirts and condom-wrappers to LED and kinetic sculptures























