Author: jaywp
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Harold Cohen: ‘I was probably the only person who considered the computer to be potentially an autonomous art-making entity’
Pioneer of computer art Harold Cohen died last year at the age of 87. In 2015, in one of the last interviews of his life, he talked to Studio International about his long career
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Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium
This inspiring retrospective at the Whitney captures the sensuous resonance of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica’s work, allowing visitors to immerse themselves in the life-affirming spirit of his oeuvre
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Guy Yanai: ‘Every work that leaves my studio is part of an inexhaustible autobiography’
The Israeli artist Guy Yanai explains the stories behind the bold, colourful oil paintings in Speak, America, his solo exhibition in New York, and talks about being influenced by Vladimir Nabokov, David Hockney and Matisse
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Damien Hirst: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable
The YBA’s watery comeback dazzles with its extravagance, but the audacity of Hirst’s exhibition only goes so far
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Delving into coding: the art of Harold Cohen
Harold Cohen, who developed Aaron, one of the first and most complex software programs for computer-generated art, died last year at the age of 87. We look back at his achievements
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Hanne Darboven: Korrespondenzen
An exhibition in Berlin uses a collection of correspondence to place the great German conceptualist Hanne Darboven in context
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An interview with Marcel Duchamp
’[Marcel Duchamp:] …The whole of modern art—the Impressionists, the Fauves, the Cubists—the whole, except maybe the Surrealists, were retinal. Abstract expressionism was very retinal, and of course, Op art is very retinal. A little too retinal for one’s taste.’
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Clare Woods: Victim of Geography
For her first solo exhibition in Scotland, the renowned British artist Clare Woods presents 11 striking new paintings
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Bill Viola Retrospective
Bill Viola’s strength is in using the video camera to get under the viewer’s skin, peeling away what we think we know about reality. But now, it seems, he has been seduced by the technology of the medium, to the…
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Lluís Lleó: ‘It was important to me that the sandstone came from Spain and that I made them there’
Lluís Lleó talks about how, for his recent installation on Park Avenue, New York, he was inspired to use stones from Europe that referred to the history of murals and fresco painting as a way of re-establishing a relationship between…
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Stephen Chambers: The Court of Redonda – Venice Biennale 2017
UK artist Stephen Chambers talks about looking for the extraordinary within the ordinary, about the appeal of fictional kingdoms, the relationship between art and literature, and being led by his instincts to do what he ‘can’t help doing’
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Marlie Mul: ‘It’s not a refusal. It’s that, basically, nothing was possible’
Until the end of October this year, there will be no exhibition in Gallery 1 of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art. Here, Marlie Mul, the artist who was meant to be showing in the space from May onwards, explains why
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Andrew Rogers: I AM–ENERGY
Among Expo 2017’s vast complex of pavilions stands Andrew Rogers’ I AM–ENERGY. A sculptural feat of engineering, it spirals triumphantly upwards to more than 10 metres, confronting visitors like a graceful ballerina en pointe
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Laura Youngson Coll: ‘The real catharsis was in the making process, because that’s something that’s personal to me, and it’s the way in which I assimilate things’
Expanding on her fascination with the world of nature and natural sciences, Laura Youngson Coll has produced an intricate series of work in vellum – mixing fact and fiction, beauty and abjection – responding to the loss of her partner…
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Vic McEwan: ‘I played a paddle-steamer to an audience of 1,000 and used a hospital bed as a cello’
The artist Vic McEwan talks about his project on the swan hoppers of the Murrumbidgee river in Australia, and working with Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool to consider the negative effects of high sound levels in wards. He hopes,…
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Dreamers Awake
Filled with dark eroticism and witty visual puns, Dreamers Awake is a sprawling survey that explores the influence of surrealism through works by women artists from the 1920s on
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Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
This is an exhibition of tragedy, celebration and defiance at a time of change and violence in the US’s racial history. Soul of a Nation is powerful, moving and brimming with artistic heroes who, until now, have been largely overlooked…
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Maggie’s Centre for cancer care, Oldham
An enchanting matchbox on stilts, with a garden below and a tree at its centre, there is poetry, symbolism and a real emotional intelligence here at dRMM’s new Maggie’s Centre for cancer care in Oldham
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Jesse Jones: Tremble Tremble – Venice Biennale 2017
Gender inequality was one of many human rights issues that artists wrestled with at the 57th Venice Biennale, with one of the most powerful statements coming from the Irish pavilion, in the Arsenale. Here, artist and film-maker Jesse Jones has…
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Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919–1933
A portrait of a nation, of an era, and, at heart, of humanity, this dual exhibition of two key artists of the Weimar Republic – photographer August Sander and painter Otto Dix – gives a comprehensive overview of the sociopolitical…
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Alexandra Dementieva: ‘All art is an interactive game. I am offering the viewer an opportunity to take an active part in the work’
Don’t come to Alexandra Dementieva’s exhibition with the hope of being a passive spectator. As she explains, her aim is to draw the visitor in to her installations, to engage them in public performance
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Raqib Shaw
A new show at the Whitworth Manchester combines Raqib Shaw’s paintings and sculptures with prints, textiles and objects that reveal an intense dialogue between the ages and across continents
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Evgenia Arbugaeva: ‘I’m always making up stories and believing in magic’
The Russian photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva spins gold from the light of desolate places, finding beauty in some unlikely environments
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Esther Rolinson: ‘Light has an immediacy. We are literally woken up by it’
The multimedia artist Esther Rolinson talks about her exhibition Gravitate at Watermans Art Centre, the allure of light and its qualities as an artistic material, the significance of collaborative work and the incessant movement of her art-making
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