Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium, Whitechapel Gallery London
Striking images in eclectic exhibition

WITH painting, like most art, the less said the better.
That possibly applies to the words of this exhibition's curator Lydia Yee. There is little evidence here that “these artists are challenging and expanding the canonical Western painting tradition,” whatever that may be.
The large paintings assembled in the spaciousness of the main galleries are what paintings have always been — a mix of the familiar and the unexpected, the intriguing and the not-so.
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