Author: jaywp
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Candida Powell-Williams: ‘Each object becomes more than just the narrative – it becomes this opportunity to interact’
The artist shows us round her immersive installation, exploring the fetishism of anthropological objects
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Richard Wilson: Stealing Space
‘I’m just making the unknown real,’ says Wilson, about his new exhibition, Stealing Space at Annely Juda Fine Art in London
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John Baldessari: Miró and Life in General
As he continues his late-career conversation with art history, the archetypical Californian conceptualist’s seemingly simple works open up a mire of ambiguity
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TeamLab: Transcending Boundaries
If there were a happiness index for exhibitions, then teamLab: Transcending Boundaries would score a solid 10 out of 10
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Mai-Thu Perret: ‘I had this urge to portray these female warriors’
The multi-disciplinary artist talks about her continuing fictional narrative The Crystal Frontier, her obsession with an all-female Kurdish militia fighting in Syria, and early-20th-century feminist fiction
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Jamie Crewe: Female Executioner
Seeking ancestry in a controversial and pornographic 19th-century French novel, this queer, transfeminine artist questions the problematic of rehabilitating a historical work of fiction from a contemporary standpoint
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Linda Stupart: ‘I’m interested in thinking about a world without men’
The writer, sculptor and performance artist talks about the power of crystals, witchcraft and using sci-fi as a tool to write queer time and imagine queer futures
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David Brian Smith: ‘My cause is to fight for the plight of the English countryside’
The painter’s pop-coloured vision of the English countryside belies a sad truth, but as Smith demonstrates, bitterness can be channelled into something meaningful
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One and Other
The Zabludowicz Collection sets the stage for a shrewd reflection on the real versus the created self in the modern age
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Sheida Soleimani: ‘Does someone really want to buy an image of an executed woman and hang it in their home?’
Surrounded by her neon memorials to women killed in Iran, Soleimani discusses the state-sanctioned misogyny and human rights abuses there, and how she is trying to make people in the west aware of what is going on
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Terrains of the Body: Photography from the National Museum of Women in the Arts
Building on the legacy of feminist art from the 1970s, this exhibition includes photographic and video works by 17 contemporary artists from five continents, from the 80s to today, presenting woman as creator and subject of her work
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Ed Webb-Ingall: ‘I am a product of lesbian history and a child of section 28’
The video-maker talks about working with communities, his current work, We Have Rather Been Invaded, about section 28, which prohibited schools from promoting homosexuality – and the difference between being a parasite and a Trojan horse
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Rezi van Lankveld: ‘I pour paint to make a “happening” in the painting’
The Dutch painter explains how her attitude to painting has changed and talks about her recent paintings, now on show at New York’s Petzel Gallery, which reveal a new focus on colour
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The Studio and the Arts and Crafts Movement
This article was first published in High Art and Low Life: The Studio and the fin de siécle, a special centenary issue of Studio International (Volume 201, Number 1021/1023, 1993) that incorporated the catalogue to the 1993 exhibition High Art…
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Strange Worlds: Visions of Angela Carter
To mark the 25th anniversary of Carter’s death, this exhibition brings together works that influenced the writer and works inspired by her, creating a visceral, violent and, at times, unpalatable celebration of magic realism and fairyland pornography
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Sergei Eisenstein: Drawings, 1931-1948
Known as a film-maker, Eisenstein also excelled at drawing. This exhibition presents a rare collection of his sexually explicit drawings that have never before been shown publicly
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Yves Klein
The alchemical French artist’s first UK retrospective in two decades reaffirms the cosmic wonder of his oeuvre
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Bonnard: En toute intimité
This is an exhibition focusing on intimacy, which conjures just that in its thorough, yet tender, exploration of the people, objects and places close to the artist’s heart
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Titus Kaphar: ‘My subconscious mind had created a fiction that masqueraded as a memory’
For his current exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, Titus Kaphar looks to historical portraiture, and imagery from the criminal justice system in his examination of how history is recorded
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The founding of The Studio
In April 1893 a new art magazine entitled The Studio appeared in British newsagents. Subtitled an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art and costing sixpence, it rapidly established itself as one of the most enduring and successful art periodicals…
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Aki Sasamoto: ‘I enjoy how much I can push meaning with the wrong answers’
New York-based performance artist Aki Sasamoto has a tendency to speak entirely in metaphor, sit in abstraction for hours, and mark her responses with a small question at the end: No? She asks, smiling. As though everything, at all times,…
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Maria Nepomuceno: ‘I want to create a place where people can be suspended in time’
The Brazilian artist talks about her fascination with hammocks, her novel way of amalgamating painting and sculpture, and the power of ancestral connections
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Manifesto (by Julian Rosefeldt with Cate Blanchett)
This superb cinematic production, in which Cate Blanchett brilliantly conjures 13 varying personas, takes us on a rapid tour through 20th-century avant-garde culture
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Hedy Ritterman: ‘My motivation was to confront mortality, identity and loss, with memory’
Ritterman talks about how her current exhibition, which includes more than 700 of her late husband’s possessions, helped her come to terms with his death, and how she has conflated traditional Jewish mourning with her own personal version
