New Order at Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on… at Serpentine Gallery

Published 01/05/2013

April/May 2013

New Order: British Art Today at the Saatchi Gallery; Pae White at SLG; Rock on Top of Another Rock at the Serpentine Gallery. April/May 2013

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Art Bin: Landyfill

Since emerging from Goldsmiths at the beginning of the last major recession, Michael Landy has pursued particular themes across a sequence of big projects.
In the darkest hour, there may be light: Works from Damien Hirst's murderme collection

A range of symbols spring to mind when thinking about death: the hooded figure wielding a sickle, the faceless boatman ferrying the souls of the dead across the River Styx, the watery existence ascribed to the souls in Hades' underworld and Purgatory - the quintessential departure lounge where Christian souls gather waiting to pass into eternal bliss.
Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin's work is exemplary. Of what? Yet, he preferred to call his works simply 'proposals', rather than sculptures.
Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint

When we speak of executing something - an article, a work of art, a musical composition - we speak of working towards some kind of resolution, of there being a sequence of events causally related and moving forward in time. Sometimes the end product, in the case of art, will stand on its own without a trace of what went before, as if all moments working up to that point have been washed clean, leaving the work immaculate, but in a way, lifeless.
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture

In his seminal essay

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