Author: jaywp

  • The sky’s the limit: OMA and Bjarke Ingels reinvent Stockholm’s residential accommodation

    With two new luxury blocks of flats, OMA and Bjarke Ingels Group have added their architectural signatures to the Stockholm skyline. But are these apartments for the affluent really what Stockholm needs?

  • Gainsborough’s Family Album

    The National Portrait Gallery introduces us to Thomas Gainsborough’s colourful family in a beautifully realised exhibition

  • Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts

    This retrospective helps us understand Nauman as an artist who turns attention to himself, his body and his image as an object of exploration in its relation to time, place and history

  • Funda Gül Özcan: ‘I was like a sponge to soak up their tears’

    Özcan talks about her recent installation at a bar in Graz, extraterrestrials, the Kosovo war, artworks that function like pop songs and why men confide in her

  • Magical Unicorns

    Throughout history, unicorns have borne the power of intrigue and attraction, and this brief chronology, centring on the Musée de Cluny’s six medieval tapestries, The Lady and the Unicorn, showcases some of the highlights of artistic response

  • Michelangelo Pistoletto: Origins and Consequences

    A well-defined exhibition at Mazzoleni, London, trains its eye on Michelangelo Pistoletto’s incipient figurative experiments and their aftermaths

  • Lotte Laserstein: Face to Face

    Lotte Laserstein was a rising star of Weimar Berlin, forced to leave her country and abandon her artistic aspirations, but with this exhibition of highlights from her peak, there is hope that her name may yet not be forgotten

  • Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn: Art and Life

    A tender testament to the relationship of two artists, whose lives and work are inextricably linked, bringing to life the moor landscapes of northern Germany

  • I am Ashurbanipal: King of the World, King of Assyria

    I am Ashurbanipal tells the story of an educated Assyrian king with a brutal streak

  • Warhol: From A to B and Back Again

    The Whitney’s pantheon exhibition, of close to 300 works, sidelines Andy, the pop artist marketed on posters and mugs, to reveal Warhol, the visionary become meme with a signature vocabulary that still colours the culture

  • Julie Greve: ‘I don’t like shooting models. They are taught so quickly to pose’

    The recent art-school graduate, who was selected to photograph this season’s campaign for standout British fashion label JW Anderson, discusses her approach to commercial projects and the importance of forming a rapport with her subjects

  • Pepe López: ‘When it comes to exile, we keep all memories in the same place in the heart’

    The Venezuelan artist recounts packing a life into a suitcase, the potency of objects in evoking the past, and the will to overcome loss through transformation

  • Andreas Lolis: ‘I’m not working with marble, I’m conversing with it’

    Lolis talks about why he uses marble to sculpt bin bags, wooden crates and other mundane items, in reference to homelessness, the refugee crisis and Greece’s changing society

  • The Bunker Artspace – Art as autobiography

    Given a test run last autumn and reopening on 2 December, The Bunker, a private venue fronting the collection of curator-collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, is a trifecta of firsts; first to give Palm Beach a serious art scene; first to…

  • Edward Burne-Jones

    Burne-Jones may not appeal to the contemporary art world, but Tate Britain’s survey proves there’s more to the pre-Raphaelite master than Arthurian escapism

  • Artes Mundi 8 Prize and Exhibition

    The artists shortlisted for Artes Mundi 8 aim to stir our consciences on everything from abuse of the Earth’s resources to the creep of surveillance and the steel industry’s impact. We talk to two of them, Anna Boghiguian and Otobong…

  • Santiago Sierra: Black Flag

    This immersive installation documents Sierra’s provocative planting of black flags – symbol of the anarchist movement – at the north and south poles, opening the way for a timely discussion on borders and freedom of movement

  • Anna Boghiguian, interview, Artes Mundi 8

    Anna Boghiguian talks about her travels and research for A Meteor Fell from the Sky, the founding of India’s first steel business, Tata Steel, and how this material is currently being manipulated by assorted superpowers to influence global economies and…

  • Otobong Nkanga, interview, Artes Mundi 8

    Otobong Nkanga talks about her inspirations for the works on show at Artes Mundi 8, and her enduring preoccupations with the reciprocity or interconnectedness of emotion and action around the world

  • Yayoi Kusama: The Moving Moment When I Went to the Universe

    In the 60s, Kusama was a pioneering artist, but it’s hard not to feel that this show, with its hyped-up pumpkins and mirror room, is more about her status as an Instagram sensation

  • A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now, 1981-2018

    Revisiting a seminal exhibition from nearly four decades ago, curator Norman Rosenthal presents 15 painters who have stood the test of time and who evidence the continuing relevance of painting as an artistic medium

  • Photo/Politics/Austria

    Vienna’s museum of modern art presents a photographic journey through the past 100 years of Austrian history that reveals how images can change the way we remember events and eras

  • Bruegel

    Marking 450 years since Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s death, this staggering survey reunites a vast amount of work from the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century

  • Magdalena Abakanowicz: Presence, Essence, Identity

    Magdalena Mielnicka, an expert on Abakanowicz, talks about the irrepressible Polish artist’s extraordinary life and her uncanny sculptures, currently on show at Stara Kopalnia Science and Art Centre, Wałbrzych