Author: jaywp

  • Maggie’s: Architecture That Cares

    Celebrating 30 years of the distinctive Maggie’s Centres for cancer care, this exhibition highlights the healing power of buildings and what good architects can achieve with a clear brief and an enlightened client

  • Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye

    His almost scientific methods of observation led him to take months, even years to finish a painting, but his undoubted technical brilliance and stark minimalism turned warm, human flesh into something austere and lifeless

  • A look behind the scenes of the travelling exhibition on Berthe Weill

    The show celebrating the pioneering Parisian avant-garde gallerist opened in New York before travelling to Montreal and then Paris. We spoke to the curators about the complicated logistics behind such an endeavour and consider how touring an exhibition affects its…

  • Hammershøi: The Eye That Listens

    A substantial retrospective reveals the mysteries and anomalies of a magnetic Danish master, whose oppressive interiors leave a haunting imprint on the mind

  • Barbados Museum & Historical Society challenges narrative around slavery

    These two fascinating, interrelated exhibitions – one of a 19th-century Black Barbadian, the other by a contemporary Barbadian-Canadian artist – pose intriguing questions about the past

  • Ilana Halperin: What Is Us and What Is Earth

    Collaborating with artists, scientists, geologists and nature itself, through her exquisite works, Halperin makes scientific research accessible and guides us to an understanding of ‘deep time’ through her artistic practice

  • Alberto Greco: Viva el Arte Vivo

    The Reina Sofia recovers the art of a queer Argentinian maverick who believed he could turn anything into art with a wag of his finger

  • Catherine Opie: To Be Seen

    The first major museum exhibition of Opie’s work in the UK charts her career from when she graduated from California Institute of the Arts in 1988, with her subversive and tender portraits of the LGBTQ+ community

  • Onyeka Igwe – interview

    The British-Nigerian artist is having a busy year. She talks about Our Generous Mother, her film installation exploring colonialism, now at Tate Britain, why she opted for a career in art rather than politics, and the importance of arts and…

  • Tracey Emin: A Second Life

    An absolute tour de force celebrates the life – and second life – of an artist who has progressed from enfant terrible of the 1990s to darling of the British establishment