Author: jaywp

  • Saad Qureshi: ‘You can’t really pick your medium. Your medium picks you’

    Saad Qureshi talks about his seduction by charcoal, his fear of being exposed, and his creation of mindscapes from his own and others’ memories

  • A Painter’s Doubt

    In order to understand contemporary painting, curator Séamus Kealy presents the work of nine European artists, examining their work through the lens of phenomenology

  • The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945

    Featuring more than 40 architects, this exhibition traces 70 years of small-scale innovation to celebrate some of the most distinctive and significant projects to have been realised in Japan since the second world war

  • Oliver Beer – interview: ‘We are very fortunate to live in a time when there is complete fluidity between mediums’

    Oliver Beer uses sound, film and sculpture to explore the physical properties and emotional value of objects and places. We interview the artist as two new solo exhibitions open in the UK

  • Whitney Biennial 2017

    America loves firsts, and, following a hiatus of three years, the once-unruly Whitney Biennial, currently curating what’s hottest in American art in its sleek, shiny, grown-up, new space, fits the bill

  • Prabhavathi Meppayil

    The Indian artist, brought up in a family of goldsmiths, adapts age-old techniques to make work that seems to bear witness and testimony to this family history and its artistic tradition

  • Helen Johnson: ‘I wanted to resist presenting some sort of unified image of history’

    Australian artist Helen Johnson’s new exhibition at the ICA in London re-examines Britain’s colonial relationship with Australia. She talks about what that means to her and how her work reflects those ideas

  • Michelangelo and Sebastiano

    This fascinating exhibition tells the story of two Renaissance greats and their unlikely collaboration

  • Tony Oursler: Imponderable

    This fascinating exhibition brings together some of the artist’s vast archive of ephemera concerning mysticism, the paranormal and the pseudo-scientific with an immersive film featuring Tony Oursler’s family, Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle, as viewers are forced to consider the…

  • Rik Wouters: A Retrospective

    More than 200 works mark the largest monographic exhibition to date devoted to Belgian modernist Rik Wouters. In a feast of colour and strong brush strokes, a collaboration of more than 30 museums, private collectors and cultural institutions, invite the…

  • Adrienne Elise Tarver: ‘I think about intrusion and the transition from viewer to voyeur’

    Adrienne Elise Tarver talks about notions of voyeurism, and her interest in personal space and the power of suggestion

  • Tuneu: Hexacordo

    This solo exhibition, which celebrates Tuneu’s 50 years as an artist, brings together his most recent work, with 23 new paintings as well as sculptures, all of which play with the possibilities of the hexagon

  • Colour is

    This group exhibition, including work by Josef Albers, David Annesley, Anthony Caro and Hélio Oiticica, provides an interesting survey of 1960s abstract art and its legacies, and suggests a few intriguing connections

  • İ Ata Doğruel: ‘I want to destroy the limits between life and art’

    Pushing his physical and mental boundaries to the limit, Doğruel seeks to make performances from his life and to use the medium of performance art as a tool to enhance his spirituality and find a broader sense of life

  • Serge Attukwei Clottey: ‘My body is part of my work’s mystery’

    Using his body as an object, Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey works with international media – as well as plastic yellow “gallons” (jerrycans) – to speak out about politics, religion, sex and tradition

  • The American Dream: Pop to the Present

    This exhibition pops and sparks, but ultimately goes out with a disappointing fizzle, leaving us to wonder what happened to the American dream

  • MOA Museum of Art: Grand Reopening Exhibition

    The museum reopens its doors after a renovation by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto that combines modern technology with ancient techniques, allowing visitors to see historical artworks in a setting similar to that in which they would originally have been viewed

  • Anna Freeman Bentley: ‘The work is successful when there’s a question over what it is you are looking at’

    Anna Freeman Bentley’s paintings are visual and psychosocial mazes that tease layers of meaning from architectural spaces. She talks about her inspiration and the social tensions that lurk beneath the surface

  • Hello, Robot: Design Between Human and Machine

    This exhibition is a provocative, disturbing, poignant and ultimately telling exploration of the implications and complications arising from technology’s advancing role in human evolution

  • Edward Krasiński

    As mercurial as this master of the Polish avant-garde might seem, a career-wide survey revealed some persistent concerns while retaining much of the mystery

  • When the Heavens Meet the Earth

    Showcasing works from Robert Devereux’s Sina Jina African art collection, this small but dense exhibition reveals the breadth and quality of artistic output from the world’s second largest continent

  • Armory Show 2017

    Manhattan’s storied art fair pushed back against a softening art market with strong work, mid-range sales and more than 65,000 visitors – the jury is out, though, on what was added by a new director’s ambitious overhaul

  • Chto Delat: ‘Before you can recognise the light, you have to recognise the darkness’

    Dmitry Vilensky and Olga Egorova of the Russian collective Chto Delat talk about their latest exhibition, On the Possibility of Light, at KOW in Berlin, and how they hope to foster debate through their engagement with political struggles

  • Deimantas Narkevičius: 20 July 2015

    In the Lithuanian artist’s latest exhibition, contrasting public reaction to the dismantling of communist public sculptures in his homeland are examined in two video works