Author: jaywp

  • Henrike Naumann: ‘I really see fascism in the furniture’

    Naumann’s careful recreations of 1990s living spaces explore how sudden social and economic change led to the rise of the far right in Germany and Austria

  • Edward Burtynsky: The Human Signature

    Burtynsky’s photographs capture the drama of a planet in flux, combining technical virtuosity with a powerful message about climate change and our role in destroying the Earth

  • Suspension: A History of Abstract Hanging Sculpture 1918-2018

    From Duchamp’s Travelling Sculpture to a tiny work by Ruth Asawa, Suspension proposes a new category within the story of modern sculpture

  • Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde

    Modern Couples attempts to retell the story of the modernist avant-garde through creative relationships. But is its intellectual impact marred by its massive scale?

  • Damien Coulthard: Songlines XXX, Adnyamathanha Yarta – ‘It’s exciting when you feel a connection with ancestral lands’

    To mark its 30th anniversary, Rebecca Hossack Gallery is showing the Australian artist Damien Coulthard. Here, he talks about painting the creation stories of his people, the Adnyamathanha

  • Pierre Le-Tan: The Collection of Monsieur X

    The French artist and illustrator explains his love of collecting, his collaboration with Patrick Modiano and why he stopped working for magazines

  • Phoebe Unwin: Field

    Unwin describes the role of memory in the 10 oil paintings of this solo show and explains why she resists being aligned with any specific group or movement

  • Goldsmiths Centre For Contemporary Art

    The Turner Prize-winning architectural collective Assemble has transformed an old bathhouse into a contemporary arts centre that is idiosyncratic and joyful

  • Franz West retrospective – playfulness is in the air

    From his diminutive drawings to his large Pepto-Bismol pink sculptures, Franz West’s world will leave you feeling slightly scrambled, but wholly absorbed

  • Billy Apple interview: The Artist Has to Live Like Everybody Else 1961–2018

    Billy Apple is not just an artist – he’s a trademarked brand. He talks about exchanging his art for a knee operation and his new exhibition at the Mayor Gallery, London

  • Vienna Design Week 2018

    What’s the difference between design and art? This year’s Vienna Design Week went a long way to answering that perennial question. Designers, artists, architects and educators from all over central Europe used this platform to interrogate how and why we…

  • Doris Salcedo

    The White Cube presents two of Doris Salcedo’s works, each exploring loss and the fragility of life with the artist’s signature flair

  • Stephen Farthing on The Miracle Paintings

    Farthing explains how his Miracle paintings, now on show at Salisbury Cathedral, came from a conversation he had with a Coptic priest in Cairo

  • Dan Graham on Rock’n’Roll

    As Dan Graham’s new show opens at the Lisson Gallery in London, he talks about his early days as a New York gallerist, his love of music and why he doesn’t believe his famous pavilions are important

  • Martin Eder: Parasites

    In this solo exhibition, Eder explores cultural value judgments through his kitsch portrayals of kittens, puppies and female nudes, in paintings spanning the past 15 years of his career

  • Berlinde de Bruyckere: Stages & Tales

    In two powerful sets of new work at Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset outpost, the Belgian sculptor moves beyond her figurative past in an attempt to capture the tragedy of the present day

  • Space Shifters

    From Ann Veronica Janssens’ Magic Mirrors to Anish Kapoor’s mind-bending sculptures, this playful exhibition will leave you questioning the reliability of your senses

  • Future Knowledge

    This thought-provoking exhibition explores how artists can raise awareness about climate change and the environment

  • Ribera: Art of Violence

    This exhibition, the first in the UK dedicated to the work of Jusepe de Ribera, delves in to the motivations behind some of the baroque artist’s most arresting images of suffering

  • Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922

    By sidestepping radical abstraction and highlighting the quixotic figurative work of Chagall, this exhibition foregrounds the revolution’s potential to bring joy, sex and playfulness into people’s lives apart from political propaganda, utopianism and promises of a better life

  • The Old Stile Press

    Nicolas and Frances McDowall started the Old Stile Press almost 40 years ago. They talk to Studio International about the many and varied books they have produced in that time

  • Oceania

    A haunting exhibition that will transport those visiting the Royal Academy of Arts to a world of Pacific gods and powerful ancestors

  • Knock, Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art

    From slapstick to sarcasm, parody to political activism, this group show at the South London Gallery, curated by Ryan Gander and gallery director Margot Heller, interrogates contemporary artists’ diverse manipulations of humour as a compelling facet of human connection

  • Ian Davenport: Colourscapes

    The artist discusses works done over the past year, now at Waddington Custot, London, as well as the three decades of his work on show at Dallas Contemporary