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Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery London
Striking images in eclectic exhibition
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ALEX HALL is disgusted by the misuse of ‘emotional narratives’ to justify uninformed geo-political prejudice
SUE TURNER welcomes a thoughtful, engaging book that lays bare the economic realities of global waste management
JOHN GREEN welcomes an insider account of the achievements and failures of the transition to democracy in Portugal
SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic
PETER MASON is enthralled by an assembly of objects, ancient and modern, that have lain in the mud of London’s river
WITH painting, like most art, the less said the better.
That possibly applies to the words of this exhibition's curator Lydia Yee. There is little evidence here that “these artists are challenging and expanding the canonical Western painting tradition,” whatever that may be.
The large paintings assembled in the spaciousness of the main galleries are what paintings have always been — a mix of the familiar and the unexpected, the intriguing and the not-so.
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