WRITING
As a respected voice in the field of contemporary painting, Jane Neal has been commissioned to write numerous essays for international art publications, national newspapers and artist monographs. She co authored the best-selling Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes for Phaidon.
Today the art world is more of a world in every sense, with a larger population, a wider territory and a greater number of nationalities. Its prevailing conversation, however, has yet to catch up. Art Cities of the Future: 21st Century Avant-Gardes uncovers twelve distinct avant-gardes that have emerged around the world in recent decades.
Twelve curators each selected eight artists to represent the avant-garde of a specific city. These artists are senior figures or newer faces, artists working in familiar mediums or inventing their own, but they all share two qualities: a commitment to experimental art and a dedication to their local milieu. In dialogue with larger concerns, their unique sensibility can be found nowhere else.
Lively, thought-provoking, comprehensive, and packed with more than 500 images, this book widens the expected historical narrative, allowing us to imagine a future of diverse aesthetics and shared concerns in the common language of contemporary art.
the other face of pop art october 2007
It's 50 years since Richard Hamilton gave his seminal definition of Pop Art: "Pop Art is popular… Read more
Serban Savu April 2008
On first appearance, Serban Savu’s meticulously rendered paintings peopled with workers and ‘ordinary’ folk... Read more
Niki de Saint PHalle: The power of playfulness February 2008
The Spice Girls may have coined the term "girl power", but Franco… Read more
THE NEW ROMAN(IAN) ORDER SEPTEMBER 2009
According to legend, the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi refused Auguste Rodin’s invitation to come to work… Read more
Artreview december 2009
Referencing slapstick cinema, art history and the annals of totalitarianism, Adrian Ghenie’s paintings find ways of… Read more
