Author: jaywp

  • Heidi Bucher

    The Swiss artist’s intriguing latex ‘skinnings’ of buildings and objects are shown for the first time in a UK public institution, 25 years after her death

  • 3D Festival, V&A Dundee Opening

    A two-day, 3D festival celebrated the opening of the V&A Dundee with a visual collaboration between Scottish rock band Primal Scream and artist Jim Lambie, and a light, sound and graphics show by Dundee digital creatives Biome Collective and Agency…

  • Renzo Piano: The Art of Making Buildings

    From his famed Pompidou Centre to eye-opening projects that many won’t know about, including a travelling pavilion for IBM, to the Shard, Renzo Piano’s inspiration and genius shine through in this exhibition highlighting 16 of his works

  • Glenstone extension opens: Power and control yield irrepressible beauty

    Mitchell and Emily Rales’s $125m extension of Glenstone – due to open on 4 October – makes it one of the world’s largest private museums, with six buildings, 230 landscaped acres and a formidable collection. The only problem will be…

  • Orlando at the Present Time

    Charleston, home of the Bloomsbury set, is celebrating the opening of a new exhibition and arts space with three concurrent exhibitions, Orlando at the Present Time, Zanele Muholi: Faces and Phases and Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant’s Famous Women Dinner…

  • Vanessa Brazeau: ‘We’ve begun to defer to technology to tell us how to think and behave’

    Performance artist Vanessa Brazeau devises absurd exercise routines and fitness apps in order to connect the act of movement to the way we think and make decisions

  • V&A Dundee opens: a monumental structure that aims to take the city under its wing

    Kengo Kuma has delivered a new landmark in the V&A Dundee. It is a craggy sculptural structure inspired by the city’s shipbuilding past and Scotland’s rugged cliffs, which Kuma hopes will reconnect the city with nature. Inside, he has crafted…

  • Birgitta Hosea: Erasure at Hanmi Gallery Seoul

    ‘I was always drawing with my mother, and making things with my mother,’ says the artist

  • Spellbound: Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft

    Spellbound is an exhibition that not only examines the superstitious practices that governed our ancestors, but also exposes those we still cling to today 

  • Banu Cennetoğlu: The List

    Istanbul-based artist Banu Cennetoğlu talks about the List, a documentation of refugees known to have died trying to reach Europe, now on show at the Liverpool Biennial, her recent film at the Chisenhale that spanned more than 128 hours, and…

  • Loie Hollowell – interview

    Loie Hollowell talks about her latest exhibition at Pace Gallery, London, her first solo show in the UK, and how trying for a baby has influenced her work

  • Jutta Koether: Tour de Madame

    In Munich, the most significant retrospective of the German artist to date, shows her paintings from the last four decades, including rarely seen early works, and an epic new cycle

  • In Pursuit of Elusive Horizons

    This tightly focused group exhibition explores the human impact on our environment

  • Lily Lanfermeijer: Lost in Depiction

    The Dutch sculptor Lily Lanfermeijer discusses tableware, colonial histories and the passing of patterns between continents

  • Frida Kahlo: Making Herself Up

    This exhibition offers a lesson in why you shouldn’t feed popular morbid curiosity at the expense of respect for the person behind the legend. Nevertheless, Frida Kahlo’s paintings still shine out from amid the costumes, prosthetics and pill packets

  • Aaditi Joshi: ‘I want to be closer to plastic and express its beautiful side’

    You may view plastic as rubbish, but for Mumbai artist Aaditi Joshi it is ‘as precious as a gem’. She even covers her body in it to make art. Here, she talks about why she chose it as her medium…

  • Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt

    As the V&A this week opens an exhibition that celebrates groundbreaking innovations in video game design, its curator, Marie Foulston, discusses the medium’s radical development over the past 20 years, and why now is the right time for a show…

  • Liverpool Biennial 2018

    The 10th edition of Britain’s largest contemporary art festival explores oppressive structures, endangered histories and a world in constant flux

  • Frida Escobedo’s Serpentine Pavilion

    With walls made of stacked concrete roof tiles and a welcoming sequence of interior spaces, Mexico’s Frida Escobedo has created an easily replicable, accessible and enchanting structure for the 18th Serpentine Pavilion commission

  • Make Me Look Beautiful, Madame D’Ora

    The Leopold’s breathtaking retrospective of pioneering Viennese photographer Dora Kallmus’s work provides a glorious, if melancholic, perspective on the turbulent times in which she lived

  • Gustav Klimt: Artist of the Century and Egon Schiele: The Jubilee Show

    The Leopold Museum in Vienna celebrates the work of two of its greatest painters, Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, with concurrent exhibitions that underline their enduring relevance

  • Mary Kuper: ‘Where you have greater language diversity in the world, you also have greater biodiversity’

    The artist and illustrator talks about her current exhibition, Language Shift, the Endangered Poetry Project, her etymological alphabet, and why each language is so important to its culture

  • Bonalumi 1958-2013

    The first retrospective of Bonalumi’s sculptural exploration of canvas, colour and material since his death is nothing if not comprehensive, consolidating his place within Italy’s postwar avant garde and the influence he has exerted on subsequent artists and architects

  • Tamsyn Challenger: Free the Pussy!

    The artist-curator Tamsyn Challenger talks about Free the Pussy!, the exhibition she has curated to showcase works made in response to Pussy Riot’s arrest in 2012, and the more general need for women to speak out, take control and reclaim…