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Jonathan P. Watts

Jonathan P. Watts is a contemporary art critic based in Norwich, UK.

A slew of new books discuss the social and political history of scent, from holy smokes to slave ships

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

The 1994 exhibition, ‘The Institute of Cultural Anxiety’, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London resonates powerfully with the culture and politics of 2019

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

An exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, offers compelling evocations of causality and correlation

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

‘I stayed first for an hour, then whole afternoons and, eventually, days’

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

On Alan Clarke’s Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the death of Ian Brady, and what laughter might conceal

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Blain | Southern, London, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

The Hayward Gallery at 180 The Strand, London, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

One hundred years since the birth of dada, what does the future hold for Kurt Schwitters’s Merz Barn in Cumbria?

Mortality, madness and misgivings in the work of Bedwyr Williams

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Nottingham Contemporary, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

The first of a new series that sees regular frieze contributors choose the best current exhibitions from their city

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

How London's gentrification impacts on artists

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Richard Saltoun, London, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Acting, therapy, song and humour

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |

Campoli Presti, London, UK

BY Jonathan P. Watts |