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Dana Schutz review – an orgy of gloop from the painter who outraged New York

Dana Schutz review – an orgy of gloop from the painter who outraged New York

Thomas Dane, London The artist, whose painting of Emmett Till caused a scandal, is back with a grotesque, cartoonish, deeply political commentary on American society Dana Schutz cakes her canvases in thick gobs of gooey paint. The American artist’s first proper London exhibition is a splodgy, orgiastic celebration of her material, but there are some big messages smuggled through if you can scratch your way towards them. Schutz’s approach – which has seen her lauded as one of the most important figurative artists of her generation – is all about surface, brush strokes, colour and materiality. It’s painting for painters, real high-level art-nerd stuff. If you get your kicks losing yourself in layers of pigment and shadow, there’s enough here to keep you going for a while. But it’s Schutz’s grotesque, surreal, cartoony, metaphorical imagery that really makes the paintings tick. Continue reading...

This guy on the street was asked about the UK’s ‘immigration problem’ and his reply should be put on prescription to Reform UK voters everywhere

This guy on the street was asked about the UK’s ‘immigration problem’ and his reply should be put on prescription to Reform UK voters everywhere

For every hundred (thousand) vox pops that don’t go anywhere fast, there is one absolute gem that makes all the rest worthwhile. And this is surely one of those. Having said that we’re not entirely sure how random this particular ‘man on the street’ really is, but what he’s got to say immediately pushes all […] The post This guy on the street was asked about the UK’s ‘immigration problem’ and his reply should be put on prescription to Reform UK voters everywhere appeared first on The Poke .