Gallery run 5th May

Monochromes and figures.

189Giacometti at Gagosian showing with Yves Klein.

188Yoshimoto Nara at Stephen Friedman with new paintings in his smooth style.

187Ettore Spalletti at Marian Goodman with paintings inspired by the Adriatic coast. The paintings are sculptural and here a white pencil acts as a pivot.

186Georg Baselitz at Whitecube with new paintings of the artist and wife Elke . He revisits images he made in the 70’s and makes the passing of time part of the work.

185How do you get a giant broken canvas through a small doorway? This striking large piece by Angela de la Cruz at Peer in Hoxton poses the question.

184Hoxton artwork creates a figure.

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182Keith Coventry at Pace London turns the famous twin arches logo into art.

181Piero Manzoni at Ibid . A single painting is placed in relation to a contemporary piece for a week.

Gallery run 21st April

The human figure rules this week in nudes, performance and abstract form.

169Richard Prince at Sadie Coles HQ. Reworked nudes with scribbles and big-footed figures.

168Maria Bartuszova at Alison Jacques with delicate plaster eggshell-like sculptures.

167Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery.

166Antony Gormley of White Cube has this statue on St Bride Street.

165Jean Luc Moulene at Thomas Dane.

164Apostolos Giorgiou at Rodeo Gallery.

163Anne Tallentire with propped building materials and her characteristic flashes of yellow and other DIY colours at Hollybush Gardens.

162.jpgPing pong balls.

161Keijiuematsu at Simon Lee

Gallery run 19th February

60’s classics at the Gagosian and David Zwirner and a jog along the Regent’s Canal. A show of prize-winning Alexander Calder-inspired artists at Pace and some loudspeakers.
91Simon Hantai at Timothy Taylor shows his 60’s innovative paintings which used a tie dye technique.

92Great garden on a barge at Regent’s Canal.

93Albert Oehlen at Gagosian Gallery on Grosvenor Hill using a retro laminate surface.

94Garry Simons at Simon Lee Gallery made these speaker units as part of an installation that gets across the feel of punk and grunge!

95Tom Wesselmann at David Zwirner is a show about his collages he made whilst still at college. Upstairs we see a fantastic end product.

96Saw this bag trolley on Piccadilly after leaving the last gallery of the day.

97Tara Donovan makes clusters and here her medium is the old slinky spring. This exhibit at Pace Gallery is in a show based around one of their great artists Alexander Calder. He is patron of a sculpture prize received by the exhibitors.

98Darren Bader produced a sound piece that hums low pitched tunes through the Alexander Calder- filled Pace Gallery.

99Haroon Mirza produces a sight piece that works well next to Darren Bader’s sound piece shown adjacent.

Gallery run 11th February

A critique of consumerism, as well as money-bag canvases, at White Cube , a nice piece at Rodeo Gallery and a show of two iconic artists at Gagosian.

81More gas guzzling in a work by Josephine Meckseper in a show at White Cube about consumerism.

82A flat-life tableaux from Katherine Bernhardt in the same group show at White Cube.

83New work by Tamara Henderson at Rodeo Gallery.

84A show by Sergej Jensen at White Cube uses money bags sewn together. Sometimes bleached or naturally distressed but here they are identifiable.

85A great Richard Avedon photograph of Samuel Beckett at Gagosian gallery.

86Andy Warhol’s Double Elvis at Gagosian gallery.