STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery London
Striking images in eclectic exhibition
Tschabalala Self, Koco at the Bodega, 2017; Dana Schutz, Imagine You and Me, 2018
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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