JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
TITLED after an eponymous 2017 work by Paula Rego, The Sky was Blue the Sea was Blue and the Boy was Blue, the Victoria Miro Gallery London is presenting blue works by artists exploring the colour’s broad symbolic and conceptual associations through a range of media.
Available to view online, the exhibition looks at artists working with blue not merely as a colour but as an essential element to the work’s meaning and interpretation, as a compositional device or to suggest a particular mood or atmosphere.
On show are new works by Jules de Balincourt, Ali Banisadr, Idris Khan, NS Harsha, Secundino Hernandez, Chris Ofili and Flora Yukhnovich and key examples from Milton Avery, Ilse D’Hollander, Chantal Joffe, John Korner, Isaac Julien, Celia Paul, Grayson Perry, Howardena Pindell, Tal R, Paula Rego, Do Ho Suh and Sarah Sze.
JAN WOOLF ponders the works and contested reputation of the West German sculptor and provocateur, who believed that everybody is potentially an artist
KEVIN DONNELLY accepts the invitation to think speculatively in contemplation of representations of people of African descent in our cultural heritage
JAN WOOLF finds out where she came from and where she’s going amid Pete Townshend’s tribute to 1970s youth culture


