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
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
An exhibition at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, offers compelling evocations of causality and correlation
‘I stayed first for an hour, then whole afternoons and, eventually, days’
Lyon, France
W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
On Alan Clarke’s Rita, Sue and Bob Too, the death of Ian Brady, and what laughter might conceal
Blain | Southern, London, UK
The Hayward Gallery at 180 The Strand, London, UK
Various venues, UK
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
Nottingham Contemporary, UK
The first of a new series that sees regular frieze contributors choose the best current exhibitions from their city
Almine Rech, London
How London's gentrification impacts on artists
Richard Saltoun, London, UK
Acting, therapy, song and humour
Kestle Barton, Cornwall, UK
Campoli Presti, London, UK
