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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Crying like a fire in the sun
Rothko’s abstractions are said to have induced tears in viewers overwhelmed by abstraction. Staring at the sun here, however, barely causes blindness.
Templates for Liberation
When truth and artifice are so bluntly opposed, what use is aesthetics?
Interiors
For the abundance of material, there simply aren’t enough ideas in the exhibition to go around these Mayfair interiors.
Maps Necessary for a Walk in 4D: Chapter 4
Hawkins’s paint reveals that her studio was no crime scene.
Lichens
The clues that Glantz leaves on her surfaces are also traps. There are either too many or not quite enough to follow or fall into.
Negations
An exhausted porcupine and an architectural war plan.
