Books

The Truth is Always Grey: A History of Modernist Art

This book is a treatise on color that allows us to see something entirely new in familiar paintings

Articles

Re-presenting Histories

This article rereads Alexander Kluge and Peter Schamoni’s short film Brutality in Stone (1961)

Writing

The Dinner Table

Dinner at 29 Alpha Road was a formal occasion.

speaking

Artist Marte Bjørndal, with Researchers

Artist Marte Bjørndal, with Researchers Peter Robbins, Frances Guerin, Ragnhild Bjørnebekk.

BLOG

Ron Mueck, 25 Years of Sculpture @ Thaddaeus Ropac, London

Ron Mueck, Old Couple under an Umbrella, 2013 The most arresting thing about Ron Mueck’s scu...

Baselitz. The Retrospective @ Centre Pompidou

There’s no mistaking the world that breathes life into Georg Baselitz’s creativity. From...

Georgia O’Keefe @ Centre Pompidou

It was a great pleasure to visit the Georgia O’Keefe exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. Partic...

Gerhard Richter: Drawings @ Hayward Gallery

Gerhard Richter, 22. Juli 2020, 2020 This small exhibition in the HENI Project Space at the Hayward...

NEWS

Cinematic Painting: Time and Motion in Gerhard Richter’s Portraits Montag, 15.05.2023, 18:00 Uhr August-Bebel-Straße 20, Hörsaal E08 (ABS/E08/H) Fellowship @ TU Dresden

In Spring and Summer 2023, I will be in residence at the Technical University, Dresden to complete my monograph on Gerhard Richter’s portraits. I will also participate in a number of events designed to engage students, scholars and members of the Dresden community.

Hitler: The Lost Tapes, Channel 4

See me appear as an expert witness in this Channel 4 TV series on the films and photographs of Hitler’s inner circle – such as Eva Braun and Heinrich Hoffmann

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/hitler-the-lost-tapes

Jacqueline Humphries

My monograph on the work of American abstract painter Jacqueline Humphries will be published on 7 September 2022.

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Picturing Post-Industrialism

Picturing Post-Industrialism is a collection of academic articles that I am co-editing with Magda Szcześniak (University of Warsaw).

Pandemic Paris

I spent the year of confinements, curfews, and Coronamania writing a series of essays.

You can read more here

Cinematic Portrait Painting: (Not) About Gerhard Richter

Cinematic Portrait Painting: By Gerhard Richter examines the use of the form and techniques of the cinema as an artistic vocabulary in Gerhard Richter’s portraits.