Kubis + Macnaughton

Currently at Bau-Xi Gallery, Toronto ...

Anda Kubis:

Kathryn Macnaughton:

Afghanistan

Paintings from Francis Alÿs's Afghan projects currently at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto:

How Many Antennae

Georgia Dickie's assemblage How Many Antennae currently at Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto:

Bomberg + Steele

At Tate Britain, London 2017 ...

David Bomberg's In The Hold:

Jeffrey Steele's Curvilinear Structure (Abakum):

Advectrobarski

From the compilation ST-FM released just last week, Goto80's Advectrobarski:

From Goto80's SoundCloud channel

1943

Francis Alÿs's poem 1943 currently at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto:

I think about Morandi painting on top of a hill surrounded by fascism,

I think about Picabia finding inspiration in soft-porn magazines on the Cöte d'Azur,

I think about Marinetti returning sick from the Russian Front,

I think about Duchamp playing chess in his New York apartment,

I think about Ronald Searle POW in the Kwai jungle,

I think about Ensor playing the harmonium during the bombardment of Ostend,

I think about Otto Dix watching his works being destroyed by the Nazis,

I think about Beckmann under siege in Amsterdam,

I think about Dali, Ernst and Breton reunited in their New York exile,

I think about Magritte painting Fantômas stepping over Paris,

I think about Mondrian painting Broadway Boogie Woogie,

I think about Derain much courted by the Nazis in Paris,

I think about Tatlin observing bird flight from his garden in Moscow,

I think about Beuys flying his Stuka dive-bomber over Crimea,

I think about de Chirico copying his paintings in a corner of his studio,

I think about Matisse "painting with scissors" on the French Riviera,

I think about Soutine dying from an ulcer in Paris while escaping the Gestapo,

I think about Grosz repudiating his past from his new home in Long Island,

I think about Lee Miller photographing English women driving tractors,

I think about Kandinsky in the suburbs of Paris ceasing to write,

I think about Paul Nash once again a war artist for the British Army,

I think about Leni Riefenstahl filming Tiefland with extras from concentration camps,

I think about Schlemmer forbidden to paint and dying in a hospital in Baden-Baden,

I think about Picasso making a sculpture out of a bicycle in occupied Paris,

I think about Hanna Höch painting the Totentanz triptych in Nazi Germany,

I think about Camille Claudel dying forgotten in the asylum of Montdevergues,

I think about Siqueiros publishing In War, Art of War from his Cuban exile,

I think about Emil Nolde painting "unpainted pictures" in Seebüll,

I think about Schwitters learning from Norway that his Merzbau had been destroyed,

I think about Cartier-Bresson escaping from a German labor camp,

I think about Blinky Palermo born in the rubble of Leipzig.

Pollock-Morris-Warhol-Chamberlain Turk

More from Gavin Turk's survey exhibition Who What When Where How & Why currently at Newport Street Gallery, London ...

Turk appropriating Jackson Pollock and Robert Morris:

Turk appropriating Andy Warhol and John Chamberlain:

Detritus

Gavin Turk from his survey exhibition Who What When Where How & Why currently at Newport Street Gallery, London ...

Detritus of Gallery 6 is my favourite:

Mehretu vs Bradford

At Tate Modern, London 2016 ...

Julie Mehretu's Mogamma, A Painting In Four Parts: Part 3:

Mark Bradford's Los Moscos: