Author: jaywp
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Katharina Sieverding: ‘I also make fake news’
Part of the collateral programme of this year’s Manifesta Biennial in Palermo is a career-spanning solo exhibition by the Czech-born, German artist. Here, Sieverding talks selfies, fascism and fake news
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Theaster Gates: Black Madonna
Gates hopes to challenge and confront the prevailing European narratives of racial and religious authority by reclaiming the power of print as a medium for black emancipation
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Lee Bul
The Korean artist’s London retrospective shines brightest when it is clear and direct
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Giacometti
This thoughtful and revealing survey of an artist the Guggenheim exhibited in 1955 with Giacometti’s first-ever museum show and the museum’s first large-scale sculpture show focuses on rarely seen works in plaster to illuminate the genius of a mastery laid…
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Beyond Ophelia: A Celebration of Lizzie Siddal, Artist and Poet
Best known as Millais’ Ophelia, Lizzie Siddal was a Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet in her own right. She died young, with no particularly established reputation, and this small exhibition is only the second entirely in her honour
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Samaneh Moafi of Forensic Architecture: ‘We are taking something that is already composed and pulling it apart, deconstructing it’
Forensic Architecture has never designed a building. Instead, it acts as an architectural detective agency to expose human rights abuses. Samaneh Moafi, one of its project leaders, talks about art prizes, the innovative potential of multidisciplinary collaboration and the role…
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Alex Mirutziu: ‘I’m interested in error, misunderstanding, correction’
The Romanian artist talks about his latest exhibition, examining the life and work of Iris Murdoch, and discusses the biomechanics of writing, necrophilia and the novelist’s teddy bear
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Royal Academy of Arts 250th Summer Exhibition
Grayson Perry’s eclectic, irreverent approach in coordinating the 250th-anniversary exhibition plays to its strengths. With the works of hundreds of amateur artists alongside those of professionals and the Royal Academicians, it is a far more insightful and accurate reflection of…
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Baldwin and Guggisberg: ‘If you’re not in a white cube it forces you to take into consideration the reality that’s around you’
Having just installed 10, mostly blown-glass pieces around Canterbury Cathedral for their exhibition Under an Equal Sky, Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg talk about these new works and the resonance between their historic setting and their chosen issues of migration,…
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True Colours: Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville
True Colours, curated by Damien Hirst for his Newport Street Gallery in London, shows works by Helen Beard, Sadie Laska and Boo Saville. We talked to the three artists about the works they have in the show
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Boo Saville: interview
Boo Saville’s fields of colour shimmer, each massive painting drawing you in and, once you are up close, their surfaces seem to conjure immersive spaces, as though the air has suddenly been coloured and there is space to fall in.…
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Sadie Laska: interview
New York-based Sadie Laska, who is both a painter and a drummer, brings her improvisation skills into her wall-based works, using collage, small objects and brushed colour in flight. Each work embraces the tactility of materials and the motion of…
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Helen Beard: interview
Helen Beard’s striking and marvellously simplified, flat colour images, take you by surprise in a number of ways. The fresh colour forms pack a satisfying punch even before the viewer has undergone the gradual realisation that the paintings portray a…
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Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire
A fresh look at the paintings of British émigré Thomas Cole reveals some eerily relevant messages for our current times
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Whitstable Biennale 2018
Surreal, witty and at times unsettling, Whitstable Biennale 2018 is full of surprises
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Catherine Parsonage: ‘I wanted to break things apart, let everything be available to me’
The artist talks about how living in Rome has changed her work, why she is so interested in bodily fluids, and the role that alcohol and desire play in her painting
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Eve Fowler: ‘Stein’s work really affected me’
The artist talks about her latest exhibition, What a slight, what a sound, what a universal shudder, at Dundee Arts Contemporary, and what has led her to engage so closely with Stein’s work
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Katharina Grosse: Prototypes of imagination
Across 11 portrait canvases and one enormous fabric hanging, Grosse’s complex, multilayered works appear as seemingly prehistoric scrawls, imbued with vital energy in a maelstrom of colours
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Manuel Mathieu: ‘Life experience sometimes forces you to see things that you wouldn’t otherwise have seen’
The Haitian artist talks about coming to terms with his country’s turbulent history and some personal challenges, and why he doesn’t take the business of making art lightly
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James Edgar and Sam Walker: ‘We think of Assembly Point as part of our collaborative practice’
James Edgar and Sam Walker talk about Assembly Point, their co-founded gallery, studio space and publishing company, which they set up in 2015 in south London
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Junya Ishigami: Freeing Architecture
In his attempts to untether architecture from well-worn conventions, the Japanese architect liberates the architectural expedition from its own stolid norms
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August Sander: Men Without Masks
Taken together, the portraits shown here, captured by the German photographer between 1910 and 1931, are a quiet revelation, a unique and emotive window into the collected lives of his countrymen and women in the interwar period
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Eleanor Pinfield: ‘London – and London Underground – deserves to have the best artists in the world’
Pinfield is Head of Art on the Underground, which has commissioned work by Cindy Sherman, David Shrigley and Assemble, among others. She talks about this year’s lineup of female artists and the desire to bring art to millions of travellers
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Vera Molnár: ‘I have no regrets. My life is squares, triangles, lines’
The pioneer of computer-assisted art recounts her love affair with lines, the balancing of order and chaos, and preparing to be surprised
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