Spring
The nonagenarian Katz is an acquired taste. His bold colouring and reduced forms are perfect for sore American eyes trained on advertising and pop art. To them, such habitual simplicity might look like an unpretentious virtue.
Should flower arrangements need such an initiation? Katz’s pictures of willow and daffodils are pleasant but trivial. The man’s a legend, granted – think Hockney and his later landscapes – but this emperor’s clothes have moth holes.
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Talking Back to Power
There’s no conversation, no challenge, no win.
Condo
The word ‘organic’ once encompassed forms of matter that were anything but.
Nos marchábamos, regresábamos siempre
Whatever the purpose of this confusion, it’s not to be found in the gallery.
Strawberry
McGurn has created the visual equivalent of elevator music.
A Comparative Dialogue Act
Stage fright is real. Cowardice is another thing altogether.
What Work Is
This Elysium is part panel house block, half Roman ruin
