Luc Tuymans is not shy about admitting that he is easily one of the most influential figurative painters working today. His work - which often deals with heavy historical subjects like the Holocaust and postcolonial guilt - resists easy interpretation. So fans and the creatively curious alike will be delighted by the Whitechapel Gallery 's launch of On & By Luc Tuymans , a collection of Tuyman's writings (one of them is appropriately entitled, "I Still Don't Get It") on not only his own ideas and images, but those of El Greco, Giorgio Morandi, and Neo Rauch, to name a few. Edited by historian-publisher Peter Ruyffelaere, it also includes critical essays, dialogues and interviews by art historians, critics, and artists like Ai Wei Wei and Takashi Murakami. I actually managed to catch Tuymans after his recent Whitechapel Gallery talk in London with art critic Adrian Searle (who also wrote On & By Luc Tuymans 's introduction) abou...
The link is to a review of Marlene Dumas at MoMA and Elizabeth Peyton at the New Museum
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Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave
December 14, 2008 to February 16, 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton
October 8, 2008 to January 11, 2009
The New Museum
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