Author: jaywp

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

In the 1960s, technological machines were seen as benign helpers or megalomaniac monsters. Fifty years on, at a time when technology permeates everything we do, this show looks at how it reframes the way we think
Mahmoud Bakhshi: ‘I was focusing on the people who died, and on an artist doing something, which then has an effect that is a problem’

Turning the gallery at narrative projects, London, into a 1970s cinema, Bakhshi places his audience at the centre of two pivotal – and parallel – events in recent Iranian history
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

This is a fabulously varied exhibition with a sting in the tail. The times, they were a changin’, but so much remains the same
The photographic works of Kishin Shinoyama: Picture Power

The Japanese photographer, famous for his portraits of celebrities and nudes, has selected about 120 works, taken over a 50-year period, leading the viewer on a trip down memory lane
Alexei Jawlensky

Jawlensky’s art may be considered a life-long meditation on the process of change in his personal life
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s

With the lightest of touches, artist Do Ho Suh can transform the architectural into a symbol of the transient – and temporal – nature of life
Michael Andrews: Earth Air Water

Best known for his party scenes, Michael Andrews’ later landscapes reveal him as a master of perspective and a laureate of uncertainty
Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932

The fascinating and expansive exhibition provides an intriguing and rare insight into the dialogue between art and politics, the individual and the state, freedom of expression and the pull of ideology
Toshiyuki Inoko: ‘We are exploring the ways in which the relationships between people can be changed through art’

The founder of teamLab, an interdisciplinary group of ‘ultra-technologists’, explains how digital technology can expand art and remove the barriers between the work and the viewer
Gluck and Modern British Women

During her lifetime, Hannah Gluckstein (Gluck) refused to show in group exhibitions. The Fine Art Society has stayed true to her wishes with this extensive retrospective on the ground floor complemented by an exhibition upstairs of works by several of…
Amie Siegel: Strata

From the world’s deepest underground marble quarry to a fragment of pink marble from Trump Towers, via Freud’s consulting room, Siegel takes us on a journey to explore how objects come to represent status and success
Tara Donovan: ‘I’m interested in exploring the moment where the conditional relationship of part to whole breaks down’

The artist explains that, although her latest work, Compositions (Cards), may seem very different from her earlier, large-scale floor-based installations, it springs from the same desire to play with perceptual capacities
House Work

The house and its potential as a home, a prison, a marker in one’s life, is fertile territory and an inspired idea for an exhibition but, in this case, one lacking in impact
The Place Is Here

The 1980s were a fertile time for black British artists to interrogate their experience of racial division, economic inequality and civil unrest, and The Place is Here resonates powerfully with today’s cultural and political zeitgeist
David Hockney

Celebrating 60 years of Hockney’s work, this exhibition charts the art of a modern great through decades of change
Vanessa Bell (1879-1961)

While Vanessa Bell stands strong as an artist in her own right, her art can nevertheless not be separated from her life at the centre of the Bloomsbury Group
Yuko Mohri: ‘I’m very curious about organic ecosystems’

The Japanese artist Yuko Mohri’s exhibition at White Rainbow is titled Moré Moré [Leaky], and follows recent exhibitions in Taiwan, Japan and the US. Winner of the 2015 Grand Prix Nissan Art Award, Mohri undertook two residencies in London in…
Vera Möller: ‘My father thought going to art school was like wanting to become a communist’

The German-born artist explains why she first studied biology rather than art, how her scientific background informs her work, her love of the Great Barrier Reef, and why she is moving away from painting painstaking details of imaginary species
Thomas Hirschhorn: ‘The Gramsci Monument, like all monuments, is made for eternity’

The artist talks about his commitment to art in public spaces, describes how the Gramsci Monument in New York evolved with the help of local people, and explains his belief in the ‘unshared authorship’ of art
Bouchra Khalili

In her first solo UK exhibition, French-Moroccan artist Bouchra Khalili explores the fraught concepts of freedom, nationhood and displacement using film, video and silk-screen prints
Conceptual Art Now

Three exhibitions of conceptual art in Germany shed some light on the elusive genre. Taryn Simon’s Dresden show is an example of a type of contemporary conceptual art that relies on craft, material and concept, while two exhibitions in Berlin…
A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde

This exhibition of Russian art from the 1920s and 30s, based on MoMA’s own collection, is a heartening celebration of a period of remarkable creativity and development
Sussex Modernism: Retreat and Rebellion

Unravelling some of the interwoven and incestuous tales relating to the 20th-century modernist protagonists in their rural Sussex settings, this exhibition is as compelling narratively as it is aesthetically and politically
Laura Oldfield Ford: ‘I map ruptures, such as the London riots’

Oldfield Ford spends a lot of time walking through the capital’s streets and, from the fanzine she began in 2005 to her current exhibition, Alpha/Isis/Eden, her work is all about change, the rich pushing out the poor. The artist’s job,…