Author: jaywp

  • Royal Academy: Art is Part of the Equation

    With its packed walls, vibrant colour and impressive work, the Royal Academy’s first show by artists from its community partner programmes is like a miniature Summer Exhibition

  • Staging Jackson Pollock

    With glimmers of a cloak-and-danger cold war thriller, this look at the US artist’s 1958 UK debut considers the gallery design, remarkable for its time, and the murky matter of Pollock’s secret CIA support

  • Margaret Salmon: Hole

    This is a portrayal of love and intimacy, but love and pain are inevitably intertwined, and Hole is a stirring and heartbreaking work

  • Gabriele Münter: Painting to the Point

    Best-known for her colourful, expressionist landscapes and her graphic portraits, as well as for her relationship with Wassily Kandinsky, Münter deserves to be remembered in her own right, as this expansive exhibition makes clear

  • Lorenzo Lotto: Portraits

    Lorenzo Lotto was a painter of emotions as well as likenesses. With every portrait, he reached beyond convention to get to the heart of his sitters

  • Christine Ay Tjoe: ‘I will always treat every medium as paper and pencil’

    For her first solo exhibition in London, the Indonesian artist presents a group of intricately layered paintings and drawings that call on the contrasting environments of her home city of Bandung

  • Janet Biggs: Like Walking on Mars

    In her three new films, Biggs mixes footage of the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah with scenes from refugee camps and adds in terrific soundtracks. The result is utterly compelling

  • Art Basel Miami Beach 2018

    Trend-spotting is over, but lacking, too, was the buzz. In the end, what ABMB brought to fair-goers was less an agglomeration of work for sale than an indelible, fully sensory experience of art

  • Dale Chihuly: Chihuly

    Chihuly’s sheer brilliance and inventiveness in working with glass shine through in the magical creations on show here

  • Gustavo Pérez Monzón: ‘Interests, obsessions and people keep appearing in my life’

    The Cuban artist discusses his return to production, a fascination with the systems of arcane sciences and why teaching and practice are born of the same spirit of enquiry

  • Brent Wadden: ‘I love a good happy accident. The mistakes end up being integral to each piece’

    The artist talks about Sympathetic Resonance, his new show at Pace, why he refers to his weaving as painting, and trawling websites daily in search of secondhand yarn

  • Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018

    From Nam June Paik’s 1960s experiments to alter images on a TV screen to Ian Cheng’s use of chatbots and Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Katherine Moriwaki’s comments on celebrity-making through software that tracks Twitter feeds for reality TV shows, this exhibition…

  • London 1938: Defending ‘Degenerate’ Art

    In 1938, a year after the notorious Nazi exhibition of “degenerate art” in Munich, a counter exhibition in London showed works by 65 of the defamed artists. Eighty years on, this retrospective looks back at that exhibition, its organisers, the…

  • Zoe Leonard: Aerials

    Leonard’s stripped-back black-and-white aerial photographs take us back to a simpler time

  • Martin Creed: ‘You’re at the mercy of these feelings you don’t have any control over’

    Creed spoke to us at the opening of his new show, Toast, which includes a dancing sock, a painting that moves in and out of the room and a troupe of singers, along with new drawings, videos, paintings, textiles and…

  • Fernand Léger – New Times, New Pleasures

    Léger is regarded as the father of pop art and, despite his harrowing experiences during the first world war, the works here reflect a sense of optimism

  • Mariko Mori: Oneness

    The Moongate Garden at the Sackler Gallery provided a magical backdrop for Mariko Mori’s performance of Oneness for the gallery’s annual fundraiser

  • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer: Pulse

    In this fascinating show, large-scale immersive installations track visitors’ heartbeats and translate them into flashing lights, rippling waves and soundscapes

  • Emma Hart: Banger

    In a playful, rebellious show that explores the sinister and surreal of the everyday, the London-based artist Emma Hart turns to clay and chaos in her first Scottish exhibition

  • Gordon Matta-Clark: Works 1970-1978

    Using films, photo collages and reconstructions, this show brings back to life the pioneering work of the artist-architect who turned art into a social project in 1970s New York

  • Robyn Denny: Paintings from the 1960s

    Roche Court’s presentation of Robyn Denny’s mysterious and enigmatic 60s abstract paintings runs alongside Neil Gall’s collages based on Studio magazine and his collage inspired cut-out paintings

  • The Quick & the Dead

    This exhibition brings together the works of a formidable group of artists whose friendship has inspired some compelling portraits

  • Christo: ‘Art is useless’

    Famed for wrapping massive structures, great bodies of water and chunks of coastline as well as monumental  sculptures built from oil drums, Christo, who collaborated with his wife Jeanne-Claude until her death in 2009 – and still talks about her…

  • Renoir Father and Son: Painting and Cinema

    An exhibition exploring the shared motifs, subjects and settings of paintings and films by Pierre-August Renoir and his film director son Jean demonstrates how all too often, what in youth we think we want to escape, in adulthood we want…