Jackie Wullschlager/2009

Articles: 2009

 * artists and the human body'' - The Fitzwilliam Museum’s exhibition of the works of John Singer Sargent, Walter Sickert and Stanley Spencer illustrates how British art took no single highway to the modern - 19th December
 * compelling printmaker'' - Not surprisingly for a painter of such delayed, fraught eloquence, printmaking did not come easily for Howard Hodgkin - 12th December
 * of the ordinary'' - Four books testify that debate continues to rage around Andy Warhol’s contribution – his early versus his late works – and his role as Pop artist versus philosopher versus celebrity - 5th December
 * Medieval and Renaissance galleries'' - After a seven-year restructuring, the once languishing sections of the museum have finally reopened and are both an aesthetic and intellectual triumph - 5th December
 * force that has driven art for 100 years'' - Parasol Unit’s group show features four artists who explore how to capture perceptual experience while making work that asserts its status as painting, not mere recapitulation of reality - 28th November
 * at the Helly Nahmad Gallery'' - Jackie Wullschlager on a rare and unnerving exhibition of high-calibre works from the French master that were kept in private hands for a century - 21st November
 * Hockney at Nottingham Contemporary'' - The new kid on the block of public art galleries launches with what Jackie Wullschlager calls a sexy, funny, scholarly and extremely relevant show by the illustrator of genius - 14th November
 * art critic turns curator'' - Being a ‘discerning eye’ for an annual event gave Jackie Wullschlager a chance to play fantasy collector – and to be judged by display of her chosen pieces - 7th November
 * interests of 20th-century sculptors'' - Two new exhibitions explore works that exploited primitivist themes of fertility, sexuality and maternity, reshaping representation in shocking fashion - 31st October
 * motifs of Christian suffering'' - Grisly realism serves a sacred purpose in a revelatory exhibition at the National Gallery - 24th October
 * Hirst, Wallace Collection, London'' - The British artist’s latest move, 25 paintings made with his own hand, abounds with deliberate self-references and shows that his sense of zeitgeist is unfaltering - 17th October
 * Perry'' - Clear, generous and insightful, this lavish monograph positions the ceramic artist – most likely a national treasure – in both historical and contemporary contexts - 13th October
 * about town'' - the top choices from the plethora of London shows riding the Frieze wave - 10th October
 * artist as global brand'' - Tate Modern’s brave ‘Pop Life’ exhibition explores how Andy Warhol’s ‘descendants’ harnessed the power of celebrity to expand their reach beyond museums - 3rd October
 * firing of many guns'' - The juxtaposition of works at the Tate Britain exhibit illustrates how Turner has deconstructed the past – part in homage, part in rebellion – to lead to his own triumphs - 26th September
 * Van Gogh’s letters reveal of his life'' - Reed-pen drawings of finished works alongside prose descriptions that cannot be bettered demonstrate incontrovertibly that when the artist painted he was not mad but extremely lucid - 19th September
 * modernist art and literature interacted'' - Two exhibitions in the south of France explore how avant-garde poet Blaise Cendrars influenced the artists Picasso, Léger and Chagall - 12th September
 * Threadneedle Prize at the Mall Galleries'' - The shortlist shows a rise of confidence in painting and sculpture as they shake off conceptual influences - 5th September
 * English Rebel'' - Revolts have shaped England’s character as incontrovertibly and effectively as the monarchs and law-givers they challenged - 11th August
 * Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou'' - A retrospective shows the Russian painter’s works not just as a progress to abstraction, says Jackie Wullschlager, but as variations on shifting realities as an exile - 25th July
 * at the National Gallery'' - A show dramatises how the achievement of half a century of French landscape painters was a crucible in art history - 18th July
 * Peyton at the Whitechapel Gallery'' - The American painter is an illustrator and a fabulist, conjuring a ‘fin-de-siècle’ fairytale from the way we live now - 11th July
 * Face to the World'' - This vivid, insightful and superbly illustrated study explores the extraordinary power of the self-portrait - 14th July
 * at Tate Modern'' - The exhibition marks the centenary of a manifesto proclaiming the art movement and presents a panorama of works that explore the limits of form and abstraction - 20th June
 * east comes to the biennale'' - Individualistic and sincerely expressive art from the Middle East and south-west Asian states finds its place in the diversity of off-site Venice - 14th June
 * Biennale’s ‘delicious anachronism’'' - The antiquated elitism of the national pavilions at the festival distinguishes this queen of art fairs from all the others - 12th June
 * America’ at Saatchi Gallery'' - The artists, like Saatchi, are skilled at the niche marketing necessary to attract attention in a global marketplace - 30th May
 * art at two London galleries'' - Moscow’s conceptual art is vibrant, distinctive and passionately engaged with its past. Whether it yet transcends local issues to embrace a global present is less certain - 15th May
 * at Musée d’Orsay'' - Jackie Wullschlager examines an evocative exhibition that recreates the response of a generation of artists to the haunting presence of the 19th-century sculptor - 8th May
 * Modern’s new annual display'' - Changes to the permanent collections of the museum are illuminating, refreshing and coherent in positioning it as a temple of conceptualism - 1st May
 * it like Peckham'' - The Peckham eight punch beyond their years, yet exhibit a youthful ebullience that is always exhilarating - 25th April
 * Paris retrospective of de Chirico'' - 10th April
 * at the Whitechapel'' - With Open Sesame!, the world’s first retrospective of German artist Isa Genzken, the relaunched, expanded Whitechapel Gallery declares itself as both international player and a museum rooted in local identity - 3rd April
 * Warhol’s paintings at Grand Palais'' - 27th March
 * Hirst without the glitz'' - not only has Hirst towered over the Young British Art movement; the strength of his cold, clinical vision and impersonal tone has more or less crippled the evolution of any other sort of art by his generation in the UK - 20th March
 * at the National Portrait Gallery'' - 14th March
 * artists evolve a unique visual language'' - Is women’s art different from men’s? - 6th March
 * art dealer’s gift to the British'' - Anne and Anthony d’Offay’s unparalleled international collection of modern and contemporary art is about to go public in a series of 20 exhibitions to be staged up and down Britain - 28th February
 * geometries'' - In 1914, as war dissolved artistic circles in Paris, Munich and Berlin, the opposite happened in Moscow - 14th February
 * Britain's triennial'' - What sort of art needs a new name? - 6th July
 * of exile and survival'' - Is there a Jewish art?" Harold Rosenberg asked at New York's Jewish Museum in 1966 - 24th January
 * the futurist'' - Was Umberto Boccioni the greatest sculptor the 20th century never had? - 14th January
 * Sean Scully reinvigorates abstract painting - The artist renewed the movement with poetry that at once reasserted its links with late modernism and carried it through to the 21st century - 9th January
 * Walk to the Moon - The image on the jacket embodies the isolated but luminous imaginative world of Albert Houthuesen and entices us into his story - 5th January