Author: jaywp
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Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Builder of Fantasy
Deer-headed lodges, globe-shaped temples, sunken pleasure pavilions: a long-overdue exhibition at the Petit Palais unravels the dreamlike world of Lequeu, Revolutionary France’s most eccentric and enigmatic visionary architect
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Joseph Hillier – video interview: ‘Figurative sculpture in a public space presents a real opportunity to stir something in people’
Sculptor Joseph Hillier talks about his most ambitious project to date, its design, and what it takes to construct a bronze that weighs 9.5 tonnes
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Phil Collins – interview: the artist who brought a statue of Engels from Ukraine to Manchester
The artist talks about his latest exhibition, Ceremony, which documents the statue’s journey, and explains why Engels has such relevance in contemporary Britain
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We Are the People. Who Are You?
As the UK wrestles with Brexit, this show, with the feel of a mini-institutional survey on artists responding to the technological ravaging of liberal democracy, could not have come at a better time
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Beatrice Gibson: Crone Music
Crone Music features two new films by London-based artist Beatrice Gibson. Exploring themes of motherhood and queer kinship, this show considers how one might endure, and finally resist, an unpredictable future
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Daria Martin – interview: ‘Most people can relate to the feeling of being in exile’
The 2018 Jarman Award-winner talks about Franz Kafka, mirror-touch synaesthesia and her film Tonight the World, which involved curating her grandmother’s dreams
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Andy Warhol and Eduardo Paolozzi: I want to be a machine
In the 1960s, Warhol and Paolozzi believed art would benefit from increasing mechanisation. This show looks at where their differing techniques took them
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Stalking the Image: Margaret Tait and her Legacy
In the centenary year of Tait’s birth, this exhibition of short films celebrates her pioneering legacy alongside the work of younger artists whom she influenced
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Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2018
From this annual showcase of new talent, we pick five artists to watch, from Yushi Li’s erotically charged photograph from her My Tinder Boys series to Madelynn Mae Green’s painting of three children on a bed
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Turner in January
From storms thrashing lighthouses to mountaintops enveloped by cloud, from golden piazzas to the Italian Riviera, Turner’s delicate watercolours are stirring visions of the natural world
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Lorna Macintyre: Pieces of You Are Here
Scottish artist Lorna Macintyre delves into the relationships between people, their objects and their traces, in this fascinatingly forensic yet poetic exhibition at DCA
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Painter. Mentor. Magician. Otto Mueller and his Network in Wrocław
Exploring the life, work and artistic times of the German expressionist artist Otto Mueller, this exhibition revives the lively cultural exchange of the early 20th-century between Berlin and Wrocław
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Yapci Ramos: Show Me
Eight key works from the past 15 years, all unapologetically seen from a woman’s perspective, circle around the fluidity of sexuality, identity and the diversity of human behaviour
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Coming Home: Art and the Great Hunger
This exhibition of artwork from Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, looks at how the country’s great famine in the mid-19th century still resonates today
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Betty Yu: ‘Wherever you are, there are folks fighting for their lives’
New York-based artist Betty Yu talks about the gentrification of her neighbourhood in Brooklyn and what galleries can do to help
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Pin-Ups: Toulouse-Lautrec and the Art of Celebrity
In these prints of Paris, Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries bear witness to the enduring appeal of illusion, suggestion and nostalgia
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Ceal Floyer
Ceal Floyer’s subversion of everyday objects continues her meditation on materiality in private and public space
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Klimt/Schiele: Drawings from the Albertina Museum, Vienna
Commemorating the centenary of the deaths of two of Austria’s great modernist artists, this exhibition showcases 100 drawings on loan from the Albertina Museum and proves them to be far more than just erotic sketches
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Shen Fan: Works in Abstraction 1992-2017
This exhibition presents a survey of works by the Shanghai-based artist whose aim is to open up a dialogue across cultures and chronologies
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Fluorescent Chrysanthemum Remembered
A retrospective exhibition, curated by Jasia Reichardt, celebrates the 1968 ICA show that first brought the Japanese avant garde to Europe
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Jorge Pardo: ‘There’s a lot of No in conceptual art. I’m interested in Yes and More’
Pardo and his team have transformed a tired French hotel in Arles into a work of art, designing and making a million handmade tiles, almost every piece of furniture and hundreds of his signature light fittings
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Susan Swartz
Nature, says Swartz, is her primary source of inspiration and her paintings are grounded in the increasingly complex relationship we have with it
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Oli Kellett: Cross Road Blues
British photographer Oli Kellett travels to the US to shoot people at road junctions. Here, he explains what led him to the subject matter that now forms his first solo show
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Nick Wadley in Gdańsk
A tribute to the British artist and art historian whose droll vignettes and punning wordplay open up life’s absurdities
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