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Monthly Archives: July 2008

FEATURE: THE COLLAPSE IN PAINTING. Sally O’Reilly explores the embarrassing potential of the medium.

On a recent visit to the BALTIC in Gateshead, someone pointed out that there was a ‘shed aesthetic’ going on. Phyllida Barlow’s precarious constructions, Veli Granö and Tuovi Hippelainen’s rickety railway and corrugated iron cinema and Bob and Roberta Smith’s forest of signs with a central outhouse-like structure certainly seemed perilously home-made. It was as [...]